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About Apex
Apex manufactures satellite buses at scale for the commercial space industry. These platforms hold customer payloads and fly on launch vehicles, enabling earth observation, communications, and more. We use software, vertical integration, and hardware designed for manufacturing to build spacecraft efficiently.
The Role
You will work on a closely integrated team designing avionics, flight computers, and power systems for our satellite bus. You will approach this from clean sheet design, inform coupled trades across vehicle architecture, and push the limits of design and performance.
Responsibilities
- Provide engineering expertise in design, analysis, and testing of DC-DC power converters for harsh environments
- Work on electrical power system and sub-system level design trades and develop requirements
- Define and perform electrical power system verification testing and analysis
- Work with multidisciplinary teams of design, test, and production engineers to create new power electronics hardware
- Drive system and electrical architecture trades, product requirements, component selection, design analysis, schematic capture, prototyping, bring-up, design documentation, manufacturing planning, and production test
- Provide technical leadership across the organization, manage related risk and change across the program, and drive new technology introduction
Requirements
- U.S. Person status required; this position accesses export controlled data
- 3+ years of spacecraft electronics experience
- Experience across multiple spacecraft programs
- Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering or related field (Master's preferred but not required)
- Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to convey decisions and conclusions to multiple audiences
- Extensive experience in spacecraft design, launch, and operation across all development lifecycle phases
- Experience in integrated software and hardware verification and testing
Compensation
Salary range: $125,000 to $155,000 per year. This reflects base salary only and excludes additional benefits.
What We Offer
- Equity in Apex
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage plus $100k life insurance
- 15 days vacation, growing to 20+ days annually, plus 10 paid holidays
- 401(k) with 100% match on first 3%, 50% on next 2%
- 8 weeks paid parental leave and childcare reimbursement up to $350/day for work-related travel
- Daily catered lunch and unlimited snacks
- Monthly office socials, pickleball tournaments, run club, and family gatherings
- Equipment and tools for productivity
- In-person collaboration in Playa Vista office with work-life flexibility