Forward-Deployment AI Engineer for Spacecraft Apps

Intuitive Machines Llc; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive Machines in Houston, TX is seeking a Forward Deployment Application Engineer to build and deploy AI applications that improve spacecraft engineering, manufacturing, and services. You will work directly with engineers and business users to turn prioritized problems into useful software through six-week sprints.

You will own the entire delivery lifecycle from discovery and prototyping through integration, evaluation, deployment, and handoff.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software, application, or data engineering experience with shipping real software.
• Experience delivering LLM applications with retrieval, structured outputs, and tool integration.
• Experience integrating APIs, databases, and enterprise systems with security awareness.
• Proficiency with Git, automated testing, CI/CD, containers, and cloud deployment.
• Ability to lead technical discovery and deliver bounded solutions within short sprints.

Responsibilities

• Embed with users to observe work, map handoffs, establish baselines, and define a feasible MVP with the Product Lead and domain owner.
• Build application interfaces, backend services, APIs, and workflow automation; put prototypes in front of users early and improve them.
• Integrate enterprise systems through reusable connectors, APIs, and data transformations; preserve source permissions, revisions, and provenance.
• Implement retrieval-augmented generation, structured outputs, and tool calling with grounded answers and explicit human approval where needed.
• Create representative evaluation cases and regression tests; measure task completion, retrieval accuracy, and latency.
• Deploy through GitLab CI/CD and DevSecOps patterns with monitoring, access controls, and sustainment documentation.

Skills

LLM applications

APIs integration

Data engineering

Git and CI/CD

Cloud deployment

Containerization

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Docker / Kubernetes

AWS GovCloud

Job description

Intuitive Machines in Houston, TX is seeking a Forward Deployment Application Engineer to build and deploy AI applications that improve spacecraft engineering, manufacturing, and services. You will work directly with engineers and business users to turn prioritized problems into useful software through six-week sprints.

You will own the entire delivery lifecycle from discovery and prototyping through integration, evaluation, deployment, and handoff.