Project Engineer, Kepler

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or another relevant technical discipline
• 4+ years of experience in hardware development, project engineering, technical leadership, or a related engineering role
• Experience developing and delivering complex hardware through multiple stages of the product lifecycle
• Technical depth in at least one hardware discipline sufficient to understand designs, interrogate engineering evidence, and reach independent conclusions
• Strong understanding of hardware architecture, development, manufacturing, integration, verification, qualification, and test
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and drive outcomes across organizational boundaries
• Experience managing schedule, priorities, dependencies, risk, and completion of complex technical work
• Strong communication, problem-solving, organization, and engineering judgment

Desirable

• The Product Realization Team is Kepler's hardware execution team
• We turn product architectures into qualified, integration-ready, and repeatable producible flight hardware
• We are seeking a Technical Project Manager – Hardware to lead the realization and delivery of spacecraft hardware products
• As the clear point of accountability for your assigned products, you will lead an Integrated Product Team (IPT) and own the end-to-end execution required to deliver hardware that meets its technical and programmatic requirements
• The ideal candidate combines a strong engineering foundation with a bias for action and a high degree of ownership
• You are comfortable leading multidisciplinary teams, navigating technical and programmatic challenges, making decisions, and finding creative ways around obstacles to deliver results
• This position will primarily support RF and communications hardware, including radios and antennas
• Experience developing electrical, electronic, RF, or communications hardware is particularly valuable
• Product Ownership & Delivery
• Own the successful realization and delivery of assigned spacecraft hardware products from definition through qualification and production
• Lead the Integrated Product Team responsible for product development, build, integration, verification, and delivery
• Own product scope, schedule, cost, risk, and completion status, identifying divergence early and driving recovery actions where required
• Balance technical performance, quality, schedule, cost, manufacturability, and risk to achieve successful product outcomes
• Ensure product readiness and delivery decisions are supported by appropriate engineering and verification evidence
• Integrated Execution
• Bring together the people, plans, suppliers, builds, and verification activities required to deliver the product
• Coordinate priorities, interfaces, dependencies, and decisions across engineering and supporting functions
• Identify and burn down product risks, drive issues to closure, and remove obstacles to execution
• Work with Architects and technical leads to turn product requirements and technical direction into executable development plans
• Lead product activities through development milestones and readiness reviews
• Communicate product status, risks, challenges, and recovery plans clearly across technical and program stakeholders
• Team & Execution Excellence
• Build alignment and drive outcomes across multidisciplinary teams without relying on direct reporting authority
• Promote a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and bias for action within the IPT
• Drive adherence to Kepler's product development, engineering, configuration management, quality, and verification processes
• Capture lessons learned and contribute to improving how Kepler develops and delivers spacecraft hardware