Space AI Applications Engineer

Intuitive Machines; Houston (TX); Presencial; USD 150.000 - 210.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Intuitive Machines in Houston, TX, is building and deploying AI applications to improve spacecraft engineering, manufacturing, and services. As a member of the AI Strike Team, you will own end‑to‑end delivery from discovery to deployment, working with engineers and business users to turn prioritized problems into useful software with measurable impact.

Responsibilities include embedding with users, building interfaces and APIs, integrating enterprise systems, implementing retrieval‑augmented

Formación

• Must be a US Citizen or permanent resident.
• Bachelor’s degree; four additional years of experience may substitute for a degree.
• Minimum of 15 years of software, application, solutions, or data engineering experience, with evidence of shipping and supporting software used by real customers.
• Strong Python and API‑development skills; experience building usable application interfaces in TypeScript, JavaScript, or a comparable framework.
• Hands‑on experience delivering LLM applications, including retrieval, structured outputs, tool integration, and evaluation.
• Experience integrating APIs, databases, documents, and enterprise systems; practical understanding of authentication, authorization, data modeling, and data quality.
• Proficiency with Git, automated testing, CI/CD, containers, and cloud deployment.
• Ability to lead technical discovery, explain tradeoffs clearly, work through incomplete requirements, and deliver a bounded solution within a short sprint.
• Sound judgment in handling sensitive information, maintaining traceability, and designing workflows with accountable human review.

Responsabilidades

• Embed with users to observe actual work, map handoffs and bottlenecks, establish baselines, and define a feasible MVP with the Product Lead and domain owner.
• Build application interfaces, backend services, APIs, and workflow automation. Put working prototypes in front of users early and improve them through observed use.
• Integrate enterprise and engineering systems through reusable connectors, APIs, and data transformations. Preserve source permissions, revisions, configuration, units, and provenance.
• Implement retrieval‑augmented generation, structured outputs, and tool calling with grounded answers, citations, and explicit human approval where needed.
• Create representative evaluation cases and regression tests. Measure task completion, retrieval accuracy, review effort, latency, reliability, and operating cost.
• Deploy through approved GitLab CI/CD and DevSecOps patterns. Implement monitoring, error handling, access controls, recovery, and documentation for sustainment.

Conocimientos

Python

API development

TypeScript/JavaScript

LLM applications

Retrieval-augmented generation

CI/CD & DevSecOps

Cloud deployment

Data engineering

Educación

Bachelor’s degree

Herramientas

AWS GovCloud

Bedrock

GitLab

Descripción del empleo

Intuitive Machines in Houston, TX, is building and deploying AI applications to improve spacecraft engineering, manufacturing, and services. As a member of the AI Strike Team, you will own end‑to‑end delivery from discovery to deployment, working with engineers and business users to turn prioritized problems into useful software with measurable impact.

Responsibilities include embedding with users, building interfaces and APIs, integrating enterprise systems, implementing retrieval‑augmented