Senior Electrical Engineer & Team Lead

Join Kepler, a leading space technology company, as a Senior Electrical Engineer & Team Lead. In this role, you will develop hardware solutions for our satellite technology, collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams, and lead a small team of engineers. You will also contribute to best practices, maintain technical documentation, and execute the development of future satellite generations. Enjoy unlimited vacation, comprehensive health coverage, stock options, and flexible work options.

• Lead the development of hardware solutions for Kepler's space technology, ensuring the utilization of leading technology and practices.
• Oversee the design review process for active designs, conducting and documenting engineering analysis to minimize design gaps.
• Manage a small team of direct reports, conducting regular 1:1s, overseeing onboarding and offboarding processes, and ensuring high performance.
• Lead development of multi-board systems, and handling electrical interface planning and definition
• Comfortable in a lab environment and experience using standard tools such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, multimeters, VNA’s, etc
• Experience with schematic and layout of processors, FPGAs, SoCs, DAC/ADCs or other high speed digital components
• Ability to own a project from the architecture stage to the design validation stage
• Experience working in a rapid learning / agile environment that drives early learnings when requirements are not locked down or when attribute development is needed
• Experience with design and routing for high-Speed Interfaces including JESD204B, 10G Ethernet, etc
• 5+ years of Hardware Design experience (schematic and layout)
• Familiar with various memory including QSPI, UFS, DDR3/4, eMMC
• Experience with clock generation, PLLs, jitter cleaning, clock distribution, and general concepts around timing stability and coherency
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• Strong communication skills and ability to put together thorough design documentation
• Experience working in an aerospace or high-reliability (high-rel) environment
• Experience designing hardware/systems to operate in a radiation environment
• Experience working with Altium
• Low-level electrical design, high-speed layout