{"id":3775253,"url":"https://alion.io/job/intuitive-machines-staff-software-engineer","title":"Staff Software Engineer","company":{"id":176585,"name":"Intuitive Machines","domain":"intuitivemachines.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/intuitive-machines","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Palo Alto, United States","United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":102000,"max":170000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":170000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"GitLab","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"DynamoDB","optional":true},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true},{"name":"JUnit","optional":true},{"name":"MySQL","optional":true},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":true},{"name":"Pytest","optional":true},{"name":"React.js","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-04T23:04:49Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-04","last_verified_at":"2026-11-07T13:33:27Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Please review the job details below.\n\nIntuitive Machines is a leading provider of comprehensive space technologies. We deliver innovative solutions to government and commercial customers helping them unlock the promise of space to solve problems on Earth and beyond. We address a broad spectrum of needs for our customers, including mission systems engineering, product design, spacecraft manufacturing, assembly, integration and testing. Intuitive Machines is a trusted partner in commercial and government missions, combining more than 60 years of deep mission understanding with reliable performance and longevity.\nLife With Us\nIntuitive Machines is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Ground Software group. This position can be based in Palo Alto, CA or performed remotely within the U.S. You will be part of the Ground Software team responsible for developing, deploying, and maintaining telemetry and commanding products. The software you build will support manufacturing teams, launch base operations, mission operations, and customers for multiple satellite programs under test and in orbit.\nYour Career\nIn this role, you will develop, test, and operate highly available and scalable full-stack software that enables commanding of spacecraft and processing of satellite telemetry. The tools you build will allow operators to safely and efficiently conduct testing and operations of the spacecraft.\nWe are investing heavily in modernizing and unifying our software products which you will play a vital role in the evolution of. You will have the freedom to design and engineer solutions to drive innovative, modern approaches to meet our user needs and customer requirements. A successful candidate will be a passionate developer that embraces modern software development and insists others do as well. You will introduce automation and evangelize new tools and processes within a collaborative team environment.\nResponsibilities\nDevelop frontend and backend software for a spacecraft ground software system within an agile team environment\nDesign and modernize software solutions for assembly, integration and test during the manufacture of satellites\nPerform peer reviews and create test cases and procedures to verify software functionality\nDocument and maintain architectures, requirements, algorithms, and system interfaces\nParticipate in software requirements evaluation, generation, design, implementation, and testing discussions\nCollaborate with flight software, integration & test (I&T), and mission operations teams to understand user needs\nIdentify opportunities to transition legacy-based systems into modern, high-performance, reliable software architectures\nShare your knowledge as you help grow your fellow software engineer team members\nRespond to incidents and anomalies through on-call support and improved automated performance monitoring & alerting\n\nMinimum Requirements:\nMust be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident\n5 years of non-internship professional software development experience\nBachelor's degree in a STEM field. Four additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree.\nProgramming experience with all of the following: C++, Java and Python\nSolid DevOps background with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform), CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab), and containerization (e.g. Docker)\nExperience building services on AWS, including use of serverless computing technologies\nExperience with a large, shared codebase and continuous integration and deployment workflows and tooling\nPreferred Qualifications (Nice to Have):\nDevelopment experience with command and telemetry processing, mission operations, ground segments, and/or satellite software\nExperience designing and/or developing web-based observability, data visualization, and user interface applications\nFamiliarity with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g. MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB)\nExperience with utilizing automated testing frameworks (JUnit, PyTest, Boost)\nExperience with user-interface design/development (Tcl/Tk, React)\nExperience with service-oriented and micro-service architectures\nProfessional written communications\nHighly focused self-starter that likes solving problems\nPassion for learning and teaching new technical skills\n\nIn support of pay transparency at Lanteris Space Systems, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings. The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range.\n\n•The base pay for this position within Colorado is: $102,000.00 - $170,000.00 annually.•The base pay for this position within New Jersey is: $102,000.00 - $170,000.00 annually.•The base pay for this position within Delaware is: $102,000.00 - $170,000.00 annually.•The base pay for this position within the Washington, DC metropolitan area is: $113,000.00 - $188,000.00 annually.•The base pay for this position within California is: $117,000.00 - $195,000.00 annually.\n\nFor all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.\nWe offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. More information on our benefits will be shared with candidates as they move forward in the recruitment process.\nThe application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.\nThe date of posting can be found on the Lanteris Space Systems Career page at the top of each job posting.\nTo apply, submit your application via the Lanteris Space Systems Career page.\n\nLanteris Space Systems values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action 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.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6601,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-04T23:04:49Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:8","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-07T05:47:08Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":170000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/intuitive-machines-staff-software-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/intuitive-machines-staff-software-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-07T13:54:48Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":17323,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-08T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":176585},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=176585"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fintuitive-machines-staff-software-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fintuitive-machines-staff-software-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fintuitive-machines-staff-software-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/intuitive-machines-staff-software-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fintuitive-machines-staff-software-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3775253}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"intuitivemachines.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3775253},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}