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Kepler Communications Inc.

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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.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

🚀 Aerospace

📡 Telecommunications

📋 Description

• Support customer meetings and provide architectural guidance and technical recommendations to promote the Kepler offering • Create and deliver customer-facing presentations and white papers to shape future opportunities including technical risk identification, mitigation strategies, and recommendations for novel mission concepts • Develop feasibility assessments and back-of-the-envelope analyses to rapidly evaluate new mission concepts and customer requests including perform high-level systems analysis, ConOps simulations and spacecraft accommodations • Own customer mission architecture trades across RF, optical, networking, link budgets, payload accommodations, spacecraft hardware/software interfaces, and ground systems, work hands-on with modeling tools (STK, MATLAB/Python, RF tools, optical link analysis) to quantify performance and validate concepts • Serve as the technical integrator between customer needs and internal engineering capabilities, ensuring solutions are technically executable and align with product roadmap • Support early-phase system engineering activities, including requirements decomposition, interface definition, and preliminary architecture baselining • Lead technical writing of proposals, responses to RFPs/RFIs, and other customer inquiries, translating ambiguous customer technical requests into actionable engineering problem statements and solution pathways • Conduct black-hat reviews of competitors to guide capture strategy; stay abreast of industry trends and disruptors

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM or related field • 5+ years of experience in satellite communications, preferably including experience in optical communications • Strong proficiency in spacecraft system level analysis and requirements development • Hands-on experience in multiple domains (e.g., RF systems, optical comms, spacecraft avionics, networking, mission design, or ground segment architecture) • Strong modeling and simulation skills • Previous responsibility for writing customer-facing technical communications, preferably in aerospace technical sales • Experience with requirements development, CONOPS definition, and end-to-end system architecture • Comfort debating technical trade-offs with engineering teams and defending recommendations with data • Familiarity with commercial and government aerospace procurement and proposal processes • Strong oral and written communication skills

🏖️ 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, and company-wide holiday shutdown. • Semi-annual company-wide parties and frequent in-office team events. • Relocation packages available for approved roles. • $1,500 annual professional development fund to support your growth. • Fully stocked Toronto office kitchen with snacks, drinks, games and top-notch kitchen appliances. • Town Halls, Celebration Calls, and Company-wide events to stay connected and engaged. • We’re a certified Great Place to Work®, five years in a row!