Staff Embedded Software Designer

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🌐 Canada, United States – Remote

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Kepler Communications Inc.

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

🚀 Aerospace

📡 Telecommunications

🎖️ Defense

Aerospace • Telecommunications • Defense

Kepler Communications Inc. is a company focused on advancing mission communications in space. They offer a cutting-edge optical network that facilitates real-time data relay between satellites, addressing the challenges of on-orbit communications. By employing a hybrid RF and optical network, Kepler is turning satellites into Internet exchange points, enabling rapid data transfers for Earth observation, defense, and human space flight. They continue to expand on-space capabilities by improving infrastructure that supports seamless and secure access to space-generated data across various markets, including defense, intelligence, and space sustainability.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain reliable, high-quality embedded software for spacecraft and ground-based systems supporting a growing fleet of satellites • Work on Linux networking infrastructure, including routing, control-plane, and dataplane integration • Develop software for FPGA-based platforms, including bring-up, driver integration, and optimization of memory-mapped interfaces between processing cores and custom IP • Develop automated tests, validation tools, and technical documentation to support robust software delivery and long-term maintainability • 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 while contributing to engineering best practices and development standards

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of embedded software development experience • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience • Strong proficiency in C and modern C++ • Experience developing software for embedded Linux environments • Experience working close to operating system internals, including concurrency, IPC, synchronization, memory management, and hardware/software interfaces • Experience integrating and debugging complex software systems across multiple abstraction layers • Experience with embedded build systems and toolchains such as Yocto/OpenEmbedded, Buildroot, CMake, or similar • Ability to debug and optimize software in resource-constrained or performance-sensitive environments • Strong communication and collaboration skills in cross-functional engineering environments • Ability to work effectively across distributed teams and time zones • Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field • Experience developing software for aerospace applications • Experience implementing embedded security solutions such as secure boot, hardware security modules (HSMs), certificate/key management, authentication, or encrypted communications • Familiarity with Linux networking concepts and infrastructure, including routing, interfaces, netlink, or packet-processing pipelines • Experience developing multi-stage bootloaders • Strong knowledge of computer networking and modern networking protocols • Experience with RTL (Verilog and/or VHDL) and embedded SoCs

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation with a robust equity plan to share in our success • Comprehensive coverage for health, dental, and vision insurance—including dependents • Unlimited vacation • Supportive parental leave policy • Company-wide holiday shutdown • Semi-annual company-wide parties • Frequent in-office team events • Relocation packages available for approved roles • $1,500 annual professional development fund • Fully stocked Toronto office kitchen with snacks, drinks, games and top-notch kitchen appliances • Town Halls, Celebration Calls, and Company-wide events • Certified Great Place to Work®, seven years in a row