Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer

Intuitive Machines, LLC; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Health insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Intuitive Machines seeks a Staff Systems Engineer to lead the systems engineering process for complex spacecraft designs. You will develop ConOps, manage requirements, and decompose flows across mission, system, subsystem, and component levels while coordinating interfaces across teams.

The role progresses toward integration, verification, and validation activities. The preferred location is the Palo Alto, CA office, with a strong emphasis on technical leadership and risk management across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, or STEM field; four years of experience may substitute for a degree.
• Minimum 5 years in systems engineering or real-time control of complex systems.
• Systems engineering across multiple interacting hardware and software subsystems.

Responsibilities

• Develop ConOps and use cases; drive system trades at mission level.
• Decompose and flow requirements from mission to component levels.
• Manage requirements development and maintenance; validate and verify plans.
• Lead interface management, budgets (mass/power/data), and compliance matrices.
• Provide technical oversight and risk mitigation; lead cross-subsystem issues.
• Support proposal development and new business opportunities.

Skills

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Software coding

Systems thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or STEM

Tools

C

C++

Python

MATLAB

Job description

Intuitive Machines seeks a Staff Systems Engineer to lead the systems engineering process for complex spacecraft designs. You will develop ConOps, manage requirements, and decompose flows across mission, system, subsystem, and component levels while coordinating interfaces across teams.

The role progresses toward integration, verification, and validation activities. The preferred location is the Palo Alto, CA office, with a strong emphasis on technical leadership and risk management across