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About the role
- Software Chief Engineer leading architecture, technical standards, and cross-program integrity for Kepler Communications’ on-orbit space connectivity software. Driving AI adoption, verification rigor, reuse, and technical leadership across flight and ground systems.
Responsibilities
- 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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