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How Apex hires

Truth index
B 78/100
Median time to fill
37 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
90%
Reposted roles
0%

Apex scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 30 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 90% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 37 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Apex is an American aerospace manufacturer that designs and builds standardised satellite buses, the spacecraft platforms that carry customer payloads, for commercial, civil and defence missions. It produces its buses in series at its own factory and handles payload integration and testing in house for customers including US government programmes. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States.

News

Sophia Space Selects Apex to Power Real-Time Computing in Orbit Sophia Space
Sophia Space Selects Apex to Power Real-Time Computing in Orbit - news from Sophia Space on orbital AI edge computing and space data centers.
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Report
Northrop Grumman to Demonstrate Space-Based Interceptor Capabilities with Apex for U.S. Space Force
DULLES, Va. - June 1, 2026 - Northrop Grumman Corporation today announced one of its industry collaborators, Apex, will support Northrop Grumman's leading role in the Nation's historic drive to make space-based interceptors (SBI) a reality by the end of t
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Apex over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
68
Postings analysed
78
Stack modernity
67/100
Languages
Python63%
C++24%
PowerShell17%
Rust14%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js1%
Vue.js1%
Cloud & platforms
Linux24%
AWS21%
Azure17%
SIEM17%
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Full Apex tech stack 68 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$177k
Typical range
$76k – $600k
Open positions
109
104 Jobs
Intern 7.7%
Junior 14.4%
Middle 23.1%
Senior 32.7%
Staff 15.4%
Principal 1%
Architect 5.8%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Intern 8 $90k $90k
Junior 15 $130k $80k – $195k
Middle 24 $163k $76k – $200k
Senior 34 $195k $92k – $250k
Staff 16 $205k $100k – $226k
Principal 1 $260k $260k
Architect 6 $213k $175k – $600k
Highest paying role Business Development Director, Commercial $600k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Apex By role, level and city, against the market · 109 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
77/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
110
38 opened / 29 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
40 days
faster than 32% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
35% ▲
Hardware
13% ▲
Security
10% ▼
Field & Service
6% ▲
Sales
5% ▲
Backend
4% ▼
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+17 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added RTOS to stack Oct 2026
Added Figma to stack Sep 2026
Added Git to stack Sep 2026
Added Elastic SIEM to stack Sep 2026
Added CyberArk to stack Sep 2026
Added Crowdstrike to stack Sep 2026
New location: Denver Sep 2026
Added CAPA to stack Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack Sep 2026
Added Terragrunt to stack Sep 2026
Added SRE to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
1
Busiest office
Los Angeles
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Los Angeles United States
HQ
119 open roles 122 posted in 90 days 34% engineering 1000-5000 est. staff $170k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware, Security
seen since Nov 2024 job postings
Washington United States
Sales office
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $175k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Denver United States
Sales office
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $175k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
seen since Sep 2026 job postings

Jobs

$185k – $250k per year • Equity • In office • TS/SCI • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
Python
Rust
C++
Protobuf
DevOps
RTOS
CI/CD
Linux
TCP/IP
IoT
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$185k – $250k per year • Equity • In office • TS/SCI • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
Python
Rust
C++
Protobuf
DevOps
CI/CD
Linux
TCP/IP
IoT
FreeRTOS
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$160k – $200k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Los Angeles
Red Teaming
DevOps
RTOS
Linux
Cybersecurity
MITRE ATT&CK
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$185k – $250k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
C++
RTOS
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$162k – $198k per year • Equity • In office • TS/SCI • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
Python
Azure
CI/CD
Git
AWS
Cybersecurity
Least Privilege
Threat Modeling
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$130k – $185k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 1+ year exp • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
C++
RTOS
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$88k – $121k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 1+ year exp • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
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$160k – $200k per year • Equity • In office • TS/SCI • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Los Angeles
Python
PowerShell
Linux
Windows
Cybersecurity
Nessus
ISO 27001
SIEM
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$160k – $200k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Los Angeles
Python
PowerShell
Linux
Windows
Cybersecurity
Nessus
ISO 27001
SIEM
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$120k – $160k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
Python
C++
Linux
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$125k – $138k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 1+ year exp • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
Python
Rust
C++
Protobuf
DevOps
Linux
TCP/IP
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$165k – $195k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
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Financials

Total raised
$36.1M
Latest round
Grant
Funding rounds
5
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Grant 2025 $30M Details
Grant 2024 $1.9M Details
Grant 2024 $1.2M Details
Grant 2023 $1.7M Details
Grant 2023 $1.2M Details