Litigation Counsel (Aerospace)

Location: Houston, TX, US; onsite role.

Company

Intuitive Machines is a space company developing cislunar missions and supporting NASA, public-sector, and private customers; the posting identifies hirify.global as the company.

What you will do

• Manage commercial, contractual, regulatory, and corporate litigation, claims, and disputes from pre-litigation assessment through resolution.
• Develop dispute-resolution strategies balancing legal risk, business objectives, cost, and operational impact.
• Manage outside counsel, including case strategy, budgets, billing, performance, and outcomes.
• Advise on settlements, mediations, arbitrations, subpoenas, government inquiries, third-party demands, and other legal processes.
• Oversee litigation holds, document preservation, discovery, and e-discovery.
• Partner with Contracts, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering, Programs, Mission Operations, Security, IT, Compliance, and other functions to prevent and manage disputes and report significant matters to senior management and the Board.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school.
• Active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.
• 6–9+ years of relevant legal experience, including significant litigation experience at a law firm and/or in-house legal department.
• Experience managing complex commercial litigation, contractual disputes, and significant claims.
• Experience developing litigation strategy and managing matters through discovery, motion practice, settlement, mediation, arbitration, and/or trial.
• Experience managing outside counsel, litigation budgets, discovery, and case strategy.
• Experience with litigation holds, document preservation, subpoenas, and discovery processes.
• Ability to assess complex legal issues and provide practical, risk-based advice aligned with business objectives.
• Strong judgment, advocacy, negotiation, written and verbal communication, and project-management skills, with the ability to operate independently.

Nice to have

• Experience handling or overseeing commercial disputes, regulatory matters, government inquiries, investigations, and complex corporate litigation.
• Experience with e-discovery, document preservation, subpoenas, and large-scale discovery management.
• Experience with mediation, arbitration, settlement negotiations, and other alternative dispute-resolution processes.
• Experience with disputes involving customers, suppliers, subcontractors, strategic partners, or government contracts.
• Familiarity with government-contracting disputes, claims, audits, investigations, or regulatory enforcement matters.
• Experience advising senior management and providing litigation and risk reporting to executive leadership or Boards.
• Experience in aerospace, defense, government contracting, technology, or another highly regulated industry.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a fast-paced aerospace and government-contracting environment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional business, engineering, mission operations, security, and legal teams.
• Support science, exploration, communications, and economic progress through cislunar space missions.
• Equal Opportunity employment practices are stated for qualified applicants.