Kepler Communications Inc.

Sales

• Scale Kepler’s US commercial sales across commercial and government sectors.
• Own revenue growth, pipeline development, forecasting, and sales execution.
• Execute go-to-market strategy, positioning, and commercial transactions for Kepler services.
• Provide market feedback to Product and Engineering to shape product roadmap, features, and service offerings based on market demand.
• Act as the voice of the customer, translating user needs into product and business strategy.
• Build and manage key customer and partner relationships across the US space ecosystem.
• Lead proposal development, RFP responses, and bid/no-bid decisions.
• Monitor market trends, competitive landscape, and emerging opportunities.
• Represent Kepler at industry events, conferences, and customer engagements (≈40% travel).

Director of Sales – US Commercial Space

Analyst

• Lead structural and thermal analysis approaches and execution across hardware units and spacecraft systems
• Define modeling strategies, verification methods, and analysis approaches
• Demonstrate margins against requirements (thermal, vibration, static, etc.)
• Solve high-complexity, multi-physics problems, including critical risk areas
• Support the day-to-day effectiveness of the analysis team through coordination, feedback, and technical guidance
• Act as a first-line escalation point for technical challenges
• Partner with mechanical engineering leadership and design teams to support hardware development
• Work across electrical, RF, systems, AIT, and program teams to incorporate structural and thermal considerations into design decisions
• Provide subject matter expertise to inform design and verification activities
• Drive development and improvement of analysis methods, tools, and workflows
• Ensure consistency, reliability, and scalability of simulation approaches
• Mentor engineers to improve technical depth, judgment, and autonomy

Senior Mechanical Analyst – Structural, Thermal

Engineering Manager

• Build, lead, and retain a high-performing embedded software team
• Ensure the team has the tools, training, and support needed to deliver high-quality software
• Partner with program and product leads to define scope, resourcing, and delivery milestones
• Establish and enforce engineering processes that drive quality and execution consistency
• Participate in sprint planning and daily syncs to unblock issues and maintain momentum
• Provide ongoing coaching, technical guidance, and career development through regular 1:1s and structured performance reviews
• Support hiring plans, lead interviews, and onboard new team members
• Monitor day-to-day execution across multiple projects, ensuring alignment with program goals and timelines

Embedded Software Development Manager

Manager

• Lead, mentor, and maintain a high-performing, geographically diverse FPGA team, fostering a collaborative culture that exemplifies Kepler’s Values
• Ensure the team has the tools, training, and support needed to deliver high-quality RTL designs
• Provide ongoing coaching, technical guidance, and career development through regular 1:1s and structured performance reviews
• Monitor day-to-day execution across multiple projects, ensuring alignment with program goals and timelines
• Support hiring plans, lead interviews, and onboard new team members
• Own the FPGA development across the full lifecycle: architecture, design, verification, bring-up, debugging, and deployment
• Partner with program and product leads to define scope, resourcing, and delivery milestones
• Support vendor selection for tools and IP, and guide make/buy decisions
• Own and drive adoption of the FPGA engineering design process, establishing and championing best practices for RTL design, simulation, verification, and CI/CD
• Manage project timelines, resource allocation, and long-term technical strategy

FPGA Manager

Network Engineer

• Own and operate the corporate network infrastructure, including LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, security appliances, and hybrid cloud connectivity
• Design, implement, and maintain highly available and scalable networks supporting Kepler’s corporate systems, engineering teams, and production services
• Develop roadmaps and upgrade strategies for the corporate network, including lifecycle planning, technology evaluations, and vendor selection
• Manage network security and segmentation, ensuring corporate infrastructure adheres to security best practices and company policies
• Administer Fortinet SD-WAN infrastructure, including policy management, firmware upgrades, and performance optimization
• Design and maintain hybrid cloud networking architectures, integrating on-prem environments with AWS services
• Develop and maintain network automation tools, leveraging Python, Ansible, and infrastructure-as-code approaches to improve reliability and operational efficiency
• Collaborate closely with software, FPGA, and mission operations teams to support network infrastructure for satellite operations and ground systems
• Provide operational support for corporate and service provider network infrastructure, including participation in on-call rotations
• Implement monitoring, logging, and observability tools to proactively detect and resolve network issues
• Maintain accurate network documentation, diagrams, and operational runbooks
• Participate in change management processes, including planning, implementation, and post-change validation
• Support incident response and root cause analysis for network-related outages or performance issues

Senior Network Engineer

• Lead Kepler’s European business capture and customer engagement strategy focused on secure, resilient satellite data relay, on-orbit compute and hosted payload services for commercial, government and defense applications
• Build and maintain executive-level relationships with key stakeholders such as MODs, sovereign space agencies, commercial decision-makers, and procurement organizations
• Identify and develop revenue-generating opportunities tied to space-based connectivity, payload hosting services, and in-space compute, AI and integrated use cases
• Navigate and influence customer decisions for space-based ISR, C4ISR, wide area monitoring, Earth observation and space situational awareness programs
• Collaborate with Kepler sales and marketing leadership to articulate strong value propositions for Kepler’s products and services
• Partner with Product and Engineering to align Kepler’s capabilities including inter-satellite links, software-defined networking, and data relay nodes with mission-critical customer requirements
• Lead capture efforts from ideation to proposal submission
• Represent Kepler at relevant European space, defense, and technology conferences
• Support long-term strategy, product-market feedback, go-to-market planning, and cross-functional resource alignment as part of the Kepler leadership team
• Provide recurring input to executive leadership on market conditions, pipeline progress, product-market fit and customer priorities

Director of Sales – Europe

Full-stack Engineer

• Act as an independent technical authority across satellite missions and development efforts
• Review and validate system architectures, requirements baselines, and major technical decisions
• Ensure consistency and technical rigor across projects
• Identify systemic technical risks and recurring challenges across ongoing work
• Serve as a reviewer for major lifecycle milestones such as SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, and FRR
• Critically assess design outputs, trade studies, and verification approaches produced by engineering teams
• Provide clear, actionable technical feedback to ensure teams remain on a sound and executable path
• Support anomaly investigations and technical issue resolution when senior judgment is required
• Translate Kepler’s satellite systems strategy into clear technical expectations and engineering guardrails
• Support early-phase mission definition, concept development, and proposal activities
• Help teams convert high-level mission goals into executable and technically robust system designs
• Advise leadership on technical readiness, maturity, and risk across ongoing and proposed efforts
• Mentor systems engineers, architects, and technical leads through guidance, review, and coaching
• Act as a trusted escalation point for complex system-level technical questions
• Promote disciplined systems engineering practices and strong technical judgment across teams
• Influence technical culture through expertise and example rather than formal authority
• Support technical discussions with customers, partners, and agencies as a senior subject matter expert
• Contribute to institutional programs by ensuring compliance, rigor, and mission assurance expectations
• Communicate complex technical assessments clearly to leadership and non-technical stakeholders
• Balance institutional engineering discipline with startup agility and pragmatism

Principal Engineer – Satellite Systems

Content Writer

• Collaborate with the Sales team, Program Management Office, Technical Leads, Project Managers, Engineers, and other team members to develop, organize, and write proposals and customer facing presentations.
• Contribute to internal program support for procedure manuals, technical specifications, process documents, and internal communications.

Technical Proposal Writer

Technical Project Manager

• Lead an integrated product team owning the design, development and delivery of subsystem units
• Establish priorities and manage execution across assigned work packages
• Plan and lead milestone and readiness reviews including stakeholder design reviews
• Maintain alignment between program-level objectives and day-to-day engineering work
• Manage cost, schedule, and scope from concept through delivery
• Drive issue resolution, risk mitigation, and schedule recovery where needed
• Ensure adherence to engineering processes, quality standards, and system-level requirements
• Coordinate across disciplines (systems, software, hardware, QA, integration) to ensure consistent progress and clear technical direction

Technical Project Manager – Mechanical

Backend Engineer

• Design and develop reliable, high-quality software related to operating Kepler’s satellite network infrastructure and mission control software automation
• Ensuring system performance, security, and high availability through best practices
• Collaborate with satellite operators, product managers, and customers to deliver mission critical ground systems
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment and improve development workflows
• Monitor system health, troubleshoot issues, and proactively implement improvements
• Help develop roadmaps and long-term technical plans for Kepler’s ground segment
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence