Staff Power Electronics Engineer Seen this week
About Apex
Apex manufactures satellite buses at scale for the growing commercial space industry. These platforms carry customer payloads to orbit across earth observation, communications, and more. You'll work on clean-sheet designs that push performance limits while serving as the foundation for the future of space access.
The Role
You will drive the design of electrical power systems and avionics for Apex's satellite bus, working on a closely integrated team. This is a full lifecycle position spanning architecture, requirements, analysis, testing, and production.
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 for electrical designs
- Provide technical leadership across the organization, manage related risk and change across the program and drive new technology introduction
Requirements
- U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data
- 8+ years of spacecraft electronics experience
- Experience across multiple spacecraft programs
- Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering or a related field. Master's degree preferred but not required
- Excellent interpersonal skills, able to work effectively within an organization and convey decisions, direction, and conclusions in a manner meaningful to multiple audiences
- Extensive experience in spacecraft design, launch, and operation, including experience at all phases of the development lifecycle
- Experience in integrated software/hardware verification and testing
Compensation
Salary range: $175,000 to $215,000 per year, based on experience and qualifications.
What We Offer
- Equity in Apex
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents
- $100,000 life insurance at no cost
- 15 to 20+ days vacation annually plus 10 paid holidays
- 401(k) with 100% match on first 3%, 50% on next 2%
- 8 weeks paid parental leave plus 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 at Playa Vista office with work-life integration flexibility