{
    "position": {
        "id": "ON-AO-2201",
        "slug": "autonomous-orbital-logistics-engineer",
        "title": "Autonomous Orbital Logistics Engineer",
        "division": "aerospace",
        "region": "off-world",
        "level": "senior",
        "location": "Houston, TX / Kourou, French Guiana",
        "site": "Flight operations · rotational",
        "clearance": "TS · Space access",
        "employment": "Full-time · On site with rotation",
        "travel": "Substantial — launch site rotations and console duty",
        "reports_to": "Manager, Orbital Logistics",
        "featured": true,
        "summary": "Own the autonomy that moves mass between orbits without a person in the loop for every manoeuvre. The work spans rendezvous planning, autonomous docking behaviour, and the ground software that supervises it, and it is judged on vehicles that arrive.",
        "responsibilities": [
            "Develop and qualify autonomous rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking sequences for logistics vehicles.",
            "Own the fault tree for autonomous manoeuvre and the abort logic that follows from it.",
            "Support console operations during active phases, including off-hours rotation.",
            "Work with guidance, navigation, and control to close the loop between planned and flown trajectories.",
            "Feed flight anomalies back into the simulation environment so the next vehicle inherits the lesson."
        ],
        "required": [
            "Seven or more years in flight software, GNC, or mission operations for an orbital vehicle.",
            "Direct experience with rendezvous and proximity operations, in flight or in high-fidelity simulation.",
            "Strong applied orbital mechanics and the numerical methods that go with it.",
            "Flight-grade software practice — review discipline, traceability, and verification.",
            "Eligibility for sponsored TS vetting and for space-access programme approval."
        ],
        "preferred": [
            "Experience with cislunar or non-Earth-orbit trajectory design.",
            "Console-qualified on an operational vehicle.",
            "Familiarity with autonomous cargo handling or robotic capture."
        ],
        "team": "Orbital Logistics is roughly thirty engineers split between Houston and Kourou, with a permanent console presence. The team supports Program 014 supply flights alongside commercial and consortium manifests.",
        "notes": "Space-access approval is a separate process from clearance and is sponsored. Rotation schedules are set in writing before you accept.",
        "division_label": "Aerospace & Off-World",
        "region_label": "Off-world",
        "level_label": "Senior",
        "url": "role.php?job=autonomous-orbital-logistics-engineer",
        "apply": "mailto:careers@omninova.global?subject=Application%20%E2%80%94%20Autonomous%20Orbital%20Logistics%20Engineer%20%28ON-AO-2201%29"
    }
}