Flight Director

The role

The Flight Director leads real-time operations of the LEO satellite constellation. You will hold final on-console authority for spacecraft commanding and oversee a team of operators.

What you will do

• Direct real-time operations and make go/no-go calls for commanding and critical events.
• Lead launch and early orbit phase, commissioning, orbit raising, and software update campaigns.
• Lead anomaly response by triaging issues, safing spacecraft, and driving root cause to closure.
• Review and approve flight rules, operating and test procedures, contingency plans, and escalation paths.
• Oversee operator training and certification and ensure rehearsals and simulations run on the Flatsat.
• Coordinate activities across spacecraft engineering, FSW, GNC, and ground station providers.
• Review and approve mission plans and command products before uplink.
• Oversee a team of operators and the on-call rotation and serve as their escalation point.
• Report constellation health, operational risk, and post-event findings to engineering and leadership.

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated anomaly response experience including decisions under time pressure with incomplete data.
• Strong working knowledge of spacecraft subsystems including TT&C, power, thermal, ADCS/GNC, propulsion, and FSW.
• Experience working with ground station providers and planning contact schedules.
• Excellent verbal communication on console with clear and concise direction.
• Strong written skills to review procedures and flight rules and write post-event reports.
• Experience leading or overseeing a team of spacecraft operators.

Before you apply

• For U.S. Roles: applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States (i.e. Green Card holder), or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).
• For U.K. Roles: requires Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks and eligibility to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC).
• For Canada Roles: must obtain and hold a security clearance at the reliability status level and pass security assessment for the Canadian Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and ITAR.

About the company

Xona is the navigational intelligence company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth. With Pulsar, Xona will offer a future-proof, backwards-compatible global positioning system.