# Flight Director

Xona is the navigational intelligence company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth. With Pulsar - the world’s most advanced PNT satellite infrastructure in Low Earth Orbit - Xona will offer a future-proof, backwards-compatible global positioning system optimized for absolute precision, superior power, and robust protection. Overview We are seeking a Flight Director to lead real-time operations of our LEO satellite constellation. Sitting on the Mission Operations team, you will hold final on-console authority for spacecraft commanding, from launch and early orbit through routine operations. You will oversee a team of operators who run hands-on operations, and you will review and approve the procedures they work from. Responsibilities · Direct real-time operations, making go/no-go calls for commanding and critical events. · Lead launch and early orbit phase (LEOP), commissioning, orbit raising, and software update campaigns. · Lead anomaly response: triage the issue, safe the spacecraft, coordinate engineering, and drive root cause to closure. · Review and approve flight rules, operating and test procedures, contingency plans, and escalation

- **Id**: 4001372
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/xona-space-systems-flight-director>
- **Role**: Field & Service
- **Role family**: Field & Service
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Burlingame, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T22:32:28Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T02:10:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3336
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Satellite Navigation, Satellite Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 685097
- **Name**: Xona Space Systems
- **Domain**: xonaspace.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/xonaspace>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 93
- **Open postings**: 50
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.08
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 84
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 173000
- **Max**: 200000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 200000

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T03:40:36Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 84
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 200000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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