Power Electronics Engineer (Mid) Verified today
About the Role
Apex is seeking a Power Electronics Engineer to work on a closely integrated team designing avionics, flight computers, and power systems for spacecraft buses. You will approach clean sheet designs, 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 (access to 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)
- 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/hardware verification and testing
Compensation
Salary Range: $125,000 - $155,000 per year. Full-time employees receive equity, 100% company-paid medical/dental/vision, 15-20+ days vacation plus 10 paid holidays, 401(k) with 100% match on first 3% and 50% on next 2%, 8 weeks paid parental leave, and additional benefits.
ITAR Requirements
Applicants must qualify as a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee) or be able to obtain required export authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or Commerce.