Deployed Engineer
Apex Technology, Inc.2 months ago
Base Salary
$120k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Deliver, integrate, and support Apex’s software-enabled non-bus products, including virtual flatsats, bus emulators, EGSE test racks, and related test tools.
- Serve as the primary technical software interface for customers across Apex vehicles and customer integration environments.
- Support flight software and ground software compatibility and help customers bring Apex-provided tools online.
- Answer customer technical questions and troubleshoot software and system-level issues directly in lab, integration, and customer environments.
- Coordinate issue resolution with internal software, systems, avionics, and product engineering teams.
- Work hands-on at customer sites and travel as needed to support deployments.
- Define processes, documentation, escalation paths, and the operating model for scaling customer deployments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related technical field.
- Strong software engineering background building, debugging, integrating, or supporting software-enabled technical products.
- Experience troubleshooting complex technical systems in laboratory, integration, production, field, or customer environments.
- Ability to support compatibility across flight software, ground software, test tools, and customer integration environments.
- Experience with Linux, Python, C/C++, networking, test automation, APIs, or similar technical tools.
- Ability to interpret and support implementation of software Interface Control Documents, system diagrams, test procedures, and related technical documentation.
- Strong customer-facing communication skills for explaining technical issues to engineering and non-engineering audiences.
- Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Willingness and ability to travel to customer sites as needed.
- Preferred experience with aerospace, spacecraft, satellites, avionics, ground systems, EGSE, or mission operations.
- Preferred experience supporting virtual flatsats, bus emulators, EGSE test racks, or similar laboratory engineering systems.
- Preferred experience with hardware/software integration, system testing, or field deployment of technical products.
- Preferred experience in field applications engineering, solutions engineering, deployed engineering, systems engineering, or another customer-facing technical role.
- Familiarity with spacecraft bus architectures, flight software, ground software, telemetry, command and control systems, or EGSE.
- Experience coordinating customer technical clarifications with internal software, systems, avionics, or product engineering teams.
- Experience tracking changes and updates to software-related customer documentation.
- Interest in defining and growing a new technical function.
Benefits
- Equity in Apex.
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents, plus $100,000 life insurance.
- 15 days of vacation initially, growing to 20+ days annually, plus 10 paid holidays.
- 401(k) plan with matching contributions.
- Eight weeks of paid parental leave and childcare reimbursement of up to $350 per day for work-related travel.
- Daily catered lunch and unlimited snacks.
- Monthly office socials, pickleball tournaments, run club, and family gatherings.
- Dream desk setup and required productivity tools.
- In-person work at the Playa Vista office with flexibility to integrate work and life.
- Opportunity to work with aerospace and new-space experts on products with real-world impact.