Chief Software Engineer

🕒 September 15

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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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

• 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

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience • Significant experience as a Chief Engineer, Software Architect, Distinguished Engineer, Technical Fellow, or equivalent senior technical authority • Demonstrated success providing technical direction across a software organization of 50+ engineers, multiple programs, and several engineering disciplines • Strong understanding of the complete software lifecycle: requirements, architecture, detailed design, implementation, integration, verification, validation, deployment, operations, maintenance, and anomaly resolution • Experience mentoring senior engineers, architects, and technical leads and developing the next generation of technical leadership • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline • Demonstrated experience establishing and executing an AI strategy across software engineering and the broader organization • Demonstrated success driving organizational change, building AI fluency, and encouraging adoption among engineers, technical leaders, and non-technical teams • Direct experience developing flight software, spacecraft autonomy, GNC software, payload software, onboard or edge computing, and ground-segment systems • Experience with spacecraft operations, on-orbit commissioning, anomaly resolution, or software updates to operational systems • Familiarity with digital engineering, model-based systems engineering, requirements management, software product assurance, and formal verification methods • Experience building common software platforms, SDKs, reusable services, and shared infrastructure across several products or programs • Experience working within a scaling technology company where processes, architectures, and organizational structures are continuing to mature

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation designed to recognize and reward your contributions • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance—including dependents • 401(k) • Annual Wellness Allowance • Unlimited vacation • Supportive parental leave policy • Company-wide holiday shutdown • Semi-annual company-wide parties • Regular virtual and team events • Relocation packages available for approved roles • $1,500 annual professional development fund • Town Halls, Celebration Calls and frequent company-wide events • Certified Great Place to Work® recognition

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