Apex is standing up a dedicated Autonomy team. Commissioning of a spacecraft has traditionally required an operator working a checklist and watching telemetry. This approach does not scale to a constellation of vehicles. As an Autonomy Engineer, you will turn manual operations procedures into automated, testable software, own fault protection across every bus, and build the tooling that lets a small operations team fly a large fleet of vehicles. You will help Apex work toward true onboard autonomy: vehicles that prioritize their own tasking, plan their own maintenance, and respond to their own environment instead of waiting for an operator to intervene.

Automate commissioning end-to-end – Sequence of Events as a loadable ground procedure that ties flight sequences to health verification, captures telemetry continuously, and produces reports as a byproduct of execution rather than a separate effort.

Extend the same procedure tool set to Day-In-The-Life testing and automate ingestion of ground test data for comparison against on-orbit telemetry to catch anomalous behavior early.

Own the design, test, and maintenance of Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery across all Apex satellite bus lines.

Build on-orbit task and schedule generation tooling with Mission Operations, GNC, Thermal, Power, and Flight Software, structured so Autonomy owns the code and infrastructure across product-lines while Ops owns per-program configuration.

Shadow operators through commissioning and anomaly response, automating manual tasking for future vehicles, and provide surge support on console.

Drive long-term onboard autonomy: tasking prioritization and ad-hoc re-planning, station-keeping, and collision avoidance from maneuver generation through execution.

Autonomy Engineer

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Apex Technology Inc

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