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About the Role

Seeking an Orbit Determination (OD) and Navigation Engineer at Level II (Professional Engineer) or Level III (Lead) to join the OD group within FDI. Level II engineers independently execute routine OD analyses and navigation products. Level III engineers lead assigned OD efforts, develop analysis approaches, and guide others in technical execution and quality. Placement will reflect demonstrated competencies.

Responsibilities

Support daily OD solutions and trajectory reconstructions, covariance analyses, tracking data quality assessments, and evaluation of forces affecting spacecraft trajectories.
Produce trajectory updates that support maneuver design, reference trajectories, and science observations.
Independently execute routine OD analyses and generate navigation products using approved tools.
Configure estimation runs, assess residuals and covariance outputs, and evaluate solution behavior.
Plan assigned analyses, identify data and resource needs, estimate effort, assess risks, and coordinate schedules.
Test more complex solutions and troubleshoot issues, seeking guidance when needed.
Develop and maintain OD scripts and workflows, verify results, and document changes.
Prepare technical reports, communicate findings to mission teams and customers, and ensure assigned products meet applicable quality standards.
Lead complex OD analyses and product development for assigned efforts.
Define estimation strategies and validation methods, diagnose residual and covariance issues, and establish quality checks that reduce solution risks.
Serve as lead liaison with mission operations, customers, and engineering teams.
Manage priorities, effort, schedules, and budgets across multiple projects and report progress and issues to management.
Improve OD methods and software workflows, establish test approaches, review code, and guide other engineers.
Oversee technical documentation and anticipate problems affecting mission objectives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline.
GPA of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale.
Clear technical writing and verbal communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate with engineering and mission operations teams.
U.S. citizenship.
Ability to independently execute routine OD analyses using approved methods and tools, including estimation run setup, tracking data selection, residual review, covariance assessment, and checks of solution reasonableness.
Ability to troubleshoot analysis issues, evaluate alternatives, prioritize work against deadlines, and recognize when to escalate an issue for deeper investigation.
Experience developing, modifying, and maintaining analysis scripts and software workflows, with sound version control, testing, configuration management, and documentation practices.
Working knowledge of interplanetary navigation and applicable aerospace quality standards, with proficiency in Python and the ability to prepare technical reports and communicate analysis results to internal and external stakeholders.
Specialized OD knowledge and demonstrated ability to lead complex analyses, develop estimation and validation approaches, and interpret residuals, covariance, and solution behavior to support operational decisions.
Experience leading technical work and guiding engineers, conducting quality and code reviews, and improving analysis methods and software reliability, repeatability, and traceability.
Ability to anticipate technical risks, coordinate customers and cross-functional teams, manage multiple project schedules and budgets, and oversee technical documentation and management reporting.
Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline.
Coursework, research, or work experience in two or more of statistical orbit determination, estimation, astrodynamics, statistics, linear control theory, or Kalman filtering.
Familiarity with deep space mission operations, deep space OD processes, tracking data types, optical navigation image processing, or flight path control.
Experience with macOS or Linux environments and additional programming languages such as C, C++, Perl, MATLAB, or Fortran.
Availability to travel and work extended hours for team meetings and operations support, as needed.
Willingness to cross-train in other deep space navigation disciplines to support the KinetX multi-mission workforce.

Skills

Orbit determination
Navigation
Trajectory reconstruction
Covariance analysis
Tracking data quality assessment
Spacecraft trajectory analysis
Maneuver design
Reference trajectory generation
Science observation support
Estimation run configuration
Residual assessment
Covariance output assessment
Solution behavior evaluation
Analysis planning
Risk assessment
Schedule coordination
Complex solution testing
Issue troubleshooting
OD script development
Workflow development
Results verification
Change documentation
Technical report preparation
Findings communication
Quality standards adherence
Estimation strategy definition
Validation method definition
Residual issue diagnosis
Covariance issue diagnosis
Quality check establishment
Solution risk reduction
Liaison with mission operations
Liaison with customers
Liaison with engineering teams
Priority management
Effort management
Schedule management
Budget management
Progress reporting
Issue reporting
OD method improvement
Software workflow improvement
Test approach establishment
Code review
Guidance to engineers
Technical documentation oversight
Problem anticipation
Mission objective problem solving
Technical writing
Verbal communication
Attention to detail
Collaboration
Independent execution of OD analyses
Troubleshooting analysis issues
Evaluating alternatives
Prioritizing work
Escalating issues
Developing analysis scripts
Modifying analysis scripts
Maintaining analysis scripts
Version control
Testing practices
Configuration management
Documentation practices
Interplanetary navigation
Aerospace quality standards
Python proficiency
Communication of analysis results
Leading complex analyses
Developing estimation approaches
Developing validation approaches
Interpreting residuals
Interpreting covariance
Interpreting solution behavior
Leading technical work
Guiding engineers
Conducting quality reviews
Conducting code reviews
Improving analysis methods
Improving software reliability
Improving software repeatability
Improving software traceability
Anticipating technical risks
Coordinating customers
Coordinating cross-functional teams
Managing project schedules
Managing project budgets
Overseeing technical documentation
Management reporting
Statistical orbit determination
Estimation
Astrodynamics
Statistics
Linear control theory
Kalman filtering
Deep space mission operations
Deep space OD processes
Tracking data types
Optical navigation image processing
Flight path control
macOS environments
Linux environments
C programming
C++ programming
Perl programming
MATLAB programming
Fortran programming
Travel
Extended hours work
Cross-training

Location

Littleton, CO
Houston, TX
Remote

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Level II (Professional Engineer)
Level III (Lead)

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline
Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline

About the Company

Intuitive Machines is an innovative and cutting-edge space company making cislunar space accessible to both public and private customers.
Our mission is to further science and exploration, communications, and economic progress from the Earth to the Moon and beyond.
With multiple NASA lunar missions in development and additional private missions on our manifest, we pride ourselves in supporting NASA, our customers, and the nation in paving the way to return humans to the surface of the Moon.
Our world-class team includes experts in all aspects of spacecraft subsystems design, development, and test, on-orbit operations, and safety.
KinetX Aerospace, a subsidiary of Intuitive Machines, is a trusted engineering services and product company specializing in space navigation, flight dynamics, mission operations, communications, and systems engineering.
As the first private company qualified by NASA for deep-space navigation, KinetX has supported some of the world’s most complex planetary missions, including MESSENGER, New Horizons, OSIRIS-REx, Lucy, and LunaH-Map.
With a proven record spanning Earth-orbiting, suborbital, commercial, international, and deep-space missions, KinetX provides end-to-end expertise from early mission design through flight operations.
Its core capabilities include navigation and mission systems development, optical navigation, orbit determination, maneuver design, trajectory optimization, and constellation design and maintenance.
Combined with Intuitive Machines’ spacecraft, network, and mission-operations capabilities, KinetX helps build, connect, and operate resilient space infrastructure for sustained exploration, advanced deep-space constellations, and communications networks.

Equal Opportunity

Intuitive Machines is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.