Intuition Machines, Inc. is seeking a Director of Engineering to organize engineering efforts and ensure timely delivery of customer needs while upholding high standards for code quality, security, and service availability. You will serve as a domain expert, reviewing and guiding architecture and implementation for key initiatives.
What You'll Do
- Lead the recruitment, motivation, and management of highly technical teams focused on delivering online security and machine learning products at scale.
- Act as a liaison between product, engineering, customers, and sales to articulate and translate complex business requirements and technology solutions into useful products.
- Maintain high assurance and software quality standards while sustaining development velocity.
- Define, drive, and govern automation and instrumentation to ensure high observability and automate break-fix processes.
- In partnership with sales and product teams, model go-to-market strategies for new offerings, oversee architecture, boost client acquisition capabilities, and improve delivery.
- Implement effective hiring and onboarding strategies.
What We're Looking For
- A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience leading engineering teams of 20-60 people.
- Familiarity with high availability and high-security development processes, supported by strong knowledge of Python and NodeJS.
- Experience and demonstrated success with DevOps/systems integration, lightweight development practices, meeting strong SLAs, and test-driven design in large-scale internet-facing systems.
- Familiarity with distributed systems design on orchestration platforms like Kubernetes: queue-first architectures, sharding, etc.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated architecture and business/product need mapping expertise: gathering requirements, problem-solving, and reasoning about the best way forward given needs, timeline, and available resources.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of C/C++, Go, or Rust.
Technical Stack
- Python
- NodeJS
- C/C++
- Go
- Rust
- Kubernetes
Team & Environment
You will lead teams of 20-60 people in a flat organization with direct interaction with customer teams.
Work Mode
This is a global position.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all members of our team.




