Configurable satellite buses built for constellation-scale production
Apex builds standardized satellite buses for LEO-to-GEO missions, and its stack shows a hardware company running like a regulated software shop: NX and SolidWorks for design, C++, Rust and Yocto for flight software, and AWS GovCloud with CrowdStrike, CyberArk and Tenable for compliance-grade security. Senior-heavy, engineering-dominant hiring plus a dedicated security function and DLP adoption point to tightening controls around defense-adjacent work.
Apex is a privately held satellite manufacturer headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with 201–500 employees. It produces configurable spacecraft platforms across three product lines, Aries, Nova and Comet, designed for missions from low Earth orbit to geostationary orbit. The company targets constellation operators and U.S. and allied national security missions that need short lead times and reliable buses at volume. Work spans avionics, guidance and control, thermal systems, assembly and test, and launch-site payload integration, with hiring concentrated in the United States.
Apex uses NX and SolidWorks for CAD, C++, Rust, Python and Yocto for software, AWS GovCloud, Kubernetes and Terraform for infrastructure, Palantir Foundry and Spark for data, and SAP, Oracle and NetSuite for business systems.
Yes. Engineering dominates Apex's open roles, skewed toward senior and mid-level talent, with additional hiring in security, manufacturing, operations and finance, all in the United States.
Current work includes avionics and flight computer design for satellite buses, GNC algorithm development, an Apex operating system platform, assembly, integration and test, and payload integration at launch sites.
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