Senior Electrical Engineer & Team Lead

Our mission is to provide real-time on-orbit connectivity for critical missions, enabling a new era of data-driven intelligence and innovation. With 33 satellites launched to date, Kepler operates the first commercial optical data relay constellation, enabling real-time, continuous space communications while supporting advanced on-orbit compute and hosted payload capabilities. 

Key Responsibilities:

Team Lead Responsibilities:  

• Accountable for a small number of direct reports, including conducting regular 1:1s, and managing time off and time tracking approvals.  

• Responsible for overseeing onboarding and offboarding processes for team members.  

• Ensure team members perform at a high level and complete performance reviews in alignment with company processes.  

• Support team members and foster strong collaboration within the team. and strengthen collaboration 

Engineering Responsibilities: 

• Develop and own hardware solutions to support Kepler’s space technology that requires the utilization of leading technology and practices. 

• Lead design reviews for active designs to minimize design gaps. 

• Conduct and document engineering analysis including derating, reliability, radiation, EMI/EMC, FMECA, and power budgets. 

• Contribute to best practices and development of internal standards 

• Execute development of future satellite generations, helping push the boundaries of space communications.  

• Maintain technical documentation that captures design decisions, design specifications, block diagrams, interface requirements, and system architecture reports. 

• Develop full product solutions by working closely with other cross-fun

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent 

• 5+ years of Hardware Design experience (schematic and layout). 

• Lead development of multi-board systems, and handling electrical interface planning and definition 

• Experience with schematic and layout of processors, FPGAs, SoCs, DAC/ADCs or other high speed digital components 

• Familiar with various memory including QSPI, UFS, DDR3/4, eMMC 

• Experience with design and routing for high-Speed Interfaces including JESD204B, 10G Ethernet, etc. 

• Experience with clock generation, PLLs, jitter cleaning, clock distribution, and general concepts around timing stability and coherency 

• Experience working in a rapid learning / agile environment that drives early learnings when requirements are not locked down or when attribute development is needed 

• Ability to own a project from the architecture stage to the design validation stage 

• Comfortable in a lab environment and experience using standard tools such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, multimeters, VNA’s, etc. 

• Strong communication skills and ability to put together thorough design documentation 

Bonus Points:

• Experience working in an aerospace or high-reliability (high-rel) environment 

• Experience designing hardware/systems to operate in a radiation environment 

• Low-level electrical design, high-speed layout 

• Experience working with Altium  

Actual total compensation will be determined at the Company’s discretion and is based on a variety of job-related factors, which may include, but are not limited to, relevant knowledge, skills, experience, performance, and education and/or training. The Company encourages all qualified applicants to apply, even if the posted salary range does not align with their expectations, as it does not reflect our total compensation package. 
Job Type: This is for a current vacancy