PNT Flight Software Developer

• Real-time flight software development and testing
• Integration and test of flight software in software- and hardware-in-the-loop environments
• Development of software- and hardware-in-the-loop environments

• MS or Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering or related field with 5+ years of experience preferred
• Experience with C, C++, and Python
• Experience with real-time software
• Experience with GN&C hardware including IMU, Star Trackers, GPS, LIDAR and OpNav
• Experience with SWIL and HWIL testing and integration
• Experience with GN&C sensor testing, planning, and modelling
• Experience supporting a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience with spacecraft dynamics and orbital mechanics
• Experience with JIRA and Agile processes
• Experience with Git version control preferred

Preferred:

• Experience with navigation sensor hardware, Kalman filters, LIDAR, real-time software, Monte Carlo analysis, C/C++, Python, Trick, Bash, GEONS, CSPICE, GMAT, Monte
• Experience in relative navigation, image processing, and feature detection techniques
• Experience developing high fidelity, hardware/software-in-the-loop PNT or GN&C simulations

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., Intuitive Machines is seeking a Flight Software Developer to join our Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) team. This position will support real-time navigation flight software development, HWIL navigation sensor integration, performance, and testing. The applicant will be located on-site at one of the IM main offices in Houston, TX or Glen Burnie, MD. The candidate will work in a cross-functional team on the design, development, manufacture, test, and on-orbit operation of flight and ground support software for the Lunar Data Network relay satellites.