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About the Role
As the Program Chief Engineer, you will be the senior technical authority for the spacecraft program, ensuring technical accountability for mission success. You will provide technical leadership across all engineering disciplines, driving engineering execution, making timely decisions, and communicating effectively with all stakeholders to deliver flight-ready spacecraft.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across Systems, Software, Electrical, Mechanical, RF, GNC, Payload, AIT, Manufacturing, Operations, and Product Assurance.
- Drive engineering convergence toward a technically coherent spacecraft.
- Ensure engineering activities remain aligned with mission objectives.
- Drive engineering progress and maintain technical momentum.
- Identify and remove technical roadblocks.
- Ensure timely technical decision-making and accountability across engineering disciplines.
- Lead rigorous technical reviews across all spacecraft subsystems.
- Challenge assumptions, analyses, margins, interfaces, and verification evidence.
- Lead design reviews, anomaly reviews, and readiness reviews.
- Make timely, evidence-based technical decisions.
- Balance performance, cost, schedule, manufacturability, reliability, and mission risk.
- Remove technical barriers or blockers to maintain engineering momentum.
- Communicate technical direction clearly and consistently across the engineering organization.
- Translate complex technical issues into concise recommendations for executive leadership.
- Represent Engineering during customer reviews, supplier meetings, executive briefings, and governance boards.
- Ensure decisions, assumptions, risks, and actions are clearly documented and communicated.
- Build alignment across Engineering, Program Management, Product Assurance, Manufacturing, Operations, and executive leadership.
- Mentor senior engineers and future technical leaders.
- Continuously raise the standard of technical rigor, engineering reviews, and engineering excellence.
- Drive continuous improvement, platform standardization, and lessons learned.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant engineering discipline.
- 15+ years of experience developing complex spacecraft or aerospace systems.
- Experience serving as the technical authority or senior technical leader for at least one spacecraft development program.
- Extensive knowledge of spacecraft architecture, integration, verification, manufacturing, qualification, launch, and mission operations.
- Exceptional technical judgment, communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
- Chief Engineer, Deputy Chief Engineer, or equivalent technical leadership experience.
- Constellation or multi-spacecraft program experience.
- Experience across multiple spacecraft disciplines.
- Mission assurance, Integration and test campaign, launch campaign, and on-orbit operations experience.
- Experience driving engineering standardization and AI-enabled engineering workflows.
Skills
- Systems Engineering
- Software Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- RF Engineering
- GNC
- Payload Engineering
- AIT
- Manufacturing
- Operations
- Product Assurance
- Technical Leadership
- Engineering Execution
- Design Reviews
- Technical Oversight
- Decision Making
- Communication
- Stakeholder Management
- Mentoring
- Continuous Improvement
- Spacecraft Architecture
- Integration
- Verification
- Qualification
- Launch Operations
- Mission Operations
- AI-enabled engineering workflows
Location
- Toronto HQ
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 15+ years of experience
- Senior technical leader
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
Benefits
- Competitive compensation with a robust equity plan
- Comprehensive 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
About the Company
- Kepler Communications is leading the future of on-demand space connectivity.
- Our mission is to provide real-time on-orbit connectivity for critical missions, enabling a new era of data-driven intelligence and innovation.
- We operate the first commercial optical data relay constellation, enabling real-time, continuous space communications while supporting advanced on-orbit compute and hosted payload capabilities.
- We believe great ideas come from diverse perspectives, and we’re committed to creating an environment where you can grow, lead, and make a global impact.
- We are a certified Great Place to Work®, five years in a row!
Equal Opportunity
- Kepler Communications is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace.
- We welcome applications from all qualified individuals, including women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
- If you require accommodation during any stage of the recruitment process, please contact our People & Culture team at accommodation@kepler.space, and we will work with you to meet your needs.