Kepler Communications Inc.

Engineer

• Serve as a technical authority on spectrum engineering, frequency coordination, and regulatory compliance for Kepler’s satellite systems.
• Lead development and maintenance of system models incorporating spectrum regulations, coordination requirements, interference constraints, and operational scenarios.
• Define and implement spectrum-related functionality within satellite resource-management and mission-planning software.
• Identify spectrum risks, constraints, and optimization opportunities.
• Lead technical assessments involving emission masks, antenna characteristics, RF propagation, interference, link performance, and launch-to-operational-orbit mission profiles.
• Conduct compatibility, sharing, and interference analyses involving NGSO, GSO, terrestrial, and other communications systems.
• Support frequency-coordination activities and regulatory submissions to the ITU and national administrations.
• Develop, verify, and maintain software tools used to evaluate regulatory compliance and system performance.
• Establish analysis methodologies, assumptions, validation practices, and documentation standards.
• Identify spectrum-related technical and regulatory risks and develop mitigation strategies with internal stakeholders.
• Integrate regulatory requirements, frequency-coordination considerations, and interference constraints into system architecture, analytical models, and resource-management capabilities.
• Translate ITU regulations into practical system requirements and technical solutions.
• Lead critical analyses, influence system-level design decisions, and provide technical guidance on spectrum strategy, compliance, and performance optimization.
• Support cross-functional Systems Engineering, RF, Antenna, Mission Design, and Software teams.

Senior Spectrum Engineer

Program Manager

• Spearhead development and execution of mission-critical satellite systems from concept through on-orbit validation
• Drive strategic program initiatives that strengthen global partnerships and support growth in the space sector
• Lead a cross-functional team developing and commissioning the Tranche-2 satellite constellation
• Collaborate with Engineering and Operations to ensure on-time, on-budget execution from kickoff through operational handover
• Contribute to proposal efforts involving satellite systems, software, commissioning, or on-orbit operations
• Own and manage program scope, schedule, cost, and risk throughout the full lifecycle
• Interface with subcontractors and internal stakeholders to ensure execution alignment
• Plan and facilitate design, qualification, and production reviews
• Develop program plans, performance metrics, and status reports
• Make informed scope and performance-specification decisions and provide data-driven recommendations
• Coordinate engineering, operations, and business development teams
• Monitor program health using SPI, CPI, and EAC
• Collaborate with the Program Director, peer Program Managers, Chief Engineer, and Systems Engineering team
• Identify execution barriers and risks, develop mitigation plans, and escalate issues
• Present program status and performance insights to internal and external stakeholders

Senior Program Manager

Designer

• Design, develop, and maintain reliable, high-quality embedded software for spacecraft and ground-based systems supporting a growing fleet of satellites
• Design and implement secure communications capabilities, including encryption, authentication, and key exchange for next-generation data links
• Build and maintain low-level software components including device drivers, kernel modules, hardware interfaces, and platform services
• Develop automated tests, validation tools, and technical documentation
• Participate in software architecture discussions, design reviews, and code reviews
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define system requirements, debug complex issues, and evolve system architecture
• Identify performance gaps, reliability risks, and architectural shortcomings and drive improvements across the software stack
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers
• Contribute to engineering best practices and development standards

Senior Embedded Software Designer

Full-stack Engineer

• Serve as the senior technical authority for software across Kepler’s programs
• Provide cross-program technical leadership for flight and ground software
• Set software technical direction, vision, and roadmap
• Own the reference architecture and software standards baseline
• Resolve complex cross-cutting technical problems and disagreements
• Chair software technical decision boards, architecture reviews, and cross-program trade studies
• Require additional analysis, review, refactoring, or verification when warranted by software risk
• Assess software technical readiness at major program milestones and recommend actions to program execution teams
• Provide technical leadership across flight software, built-in test, GNC software, onboard autonomy, edge/orbital compute, ground software, and developer platforms and SDKs
• Drive coherent, reusable software architecture across programs
• Lead deep technical reviews, design reviews, anomaly investigations, and readiness reviews
• Make evidence-based decisions balancing capability, reliability, security, maintainability, schedule realism, and technical risk
• Communicate technical direction and recommendations to engineering, systems, program leadership, customers, suppliers, and partners
• Document and communicate software decisions, assumptions, risks, and actions
• Build alignment across Software, Systems, Program Management, Product Assurance, and leadership
• Mentor software leads, architects, and senior engineers
• Drive reuse, platform standardization, tooling, CI/CD maturity, and lessons learned
• Recommend acceptance of software technical risks, waivers, and deviations
• Escalate software technical issues threatening program or platform success

Senior Spectrum Engineer

Senior Program Manager

Senior Embedded Software Designer

Chief Software Engineer