Space Propulsion Production Engineer

Intuitive Machines, LLC; Palo Alto, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 82,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Health insurance

Job summary

Lanteris Space Systems is seeking a Propulsion Production Engineer to support assembly, testing, and fueling of propulsion hardware in our Palo Alto, CA office. You will work closely with manufacturing, configuration, and technician teams to ensure safe, reliable hardware performance and on-time program milestones.

The role emphasizes translating engineering intent into hardware, developing test procedures, and leading data capture and analysis for propulsion systems across satellite programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or related Engineering discipline and 2+ years of related work experience.
• Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Willingness to work hands-on in lab/shop environments for hardware fabrication, assembly, and testing.

Responsibilities

• Provide daily engineering support during propulsion hardware assembly, testing, and integration.
• Translate engineering intent and configurations into functional hardware.
• Develop and execute manufacturing and test procedures for propulsion hardware.
• Coordinate test configurations, equipment, and data acquisition for hardware testing.
• Perform test setup, execution, and teardown with technicians and manufacturing engineers.
• Capture, analyze, and report test data for internal and customer buyoff.
• Lead root-cause analysis of non-conformances and coordinate rework.
• Collaborate with propulsion engineers on design phases to optimize configurations.
• Identify and deploy manufacturing improvements to boost quality and throughput.
• Provide training and guidance to team members to achieve production goals.

Skills

Engineering background

Lab/testing

MS Office

Travel up to 20%

Education

Bachelor's in Mechanical/Aerospace

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

CREO

MATLAB

Data acquisition

Java

HTML

Job description

Lanteris Space Systems is seeking a Propulsion Production Engineer to support assembly, testing, and fueling of propulsion hardware in our Palo Alto, CA office. You will work closely with manufacturing, configuration, and technician teams to ensure safe, reliable hardware performance and on-time program milestones.

The role emphasizes translating engineering intent into hardware, developing test procedures, and leading data capture and analysis for propulsion systems across satellite programs.