Senior Electrical Engineer & Team Lead, Kepler

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years of Hardware Design experience (schematic and layout)
• Lead development of multi-board systems, and handling electrical interface planning and definition
• Experience with schematic and layout of processors, FPGAs, SoCs, DAC/ADCs or other high speed digital components
• Familiar with various memory including QSPI, UFS, DDR3/4, eMMC
• Experience with design and routing for high-Speed Interfaces including JESD204B, 10G Ethernet, etc
• Experience with clock generation, PLLs, jitter cleaning, clock distribution, and general concepts around timing stability and coherency
• Experience working in a rapid learning / agile environment that drives early learnings when requirements are not locked down or when attribute development is needed
• Ability to own a project from the architecture stage to the design validation stage
• Comfortable in a lab environment and experience using standard tools such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, multimeters, VNA’s, etc
• Strong communication skills and ability to put together thorough design documentation

Desirable

• We are looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer & Team Lead to support the development of the electrical and communication interface of Kepler’s satellite to advanced internal and customer designed payloads
• You will be developing hardware solutions to support Kepler’s space technology that requires the utilization of leading technology and practice
• You will work closely with other cross-functional engineering teams including RF, mechanical, software, and FPGA to develop full product solutions
• Accountable for a small number of direct reports, including conducting regular 1:1s, and managing time off and time tracking approvals
• Responsible for overseeing onboarding and offboarding processes for team members
• Ensure team members perform at a high level and complete performance reviews in alignment with company processes
• Support team members and foster strong collaboration within the team. and strengthen collaboration
• Develop and own hardware solutions to support Kepler’s space technology that requires the utilization of leading technology and practices
• Lead design reviews for active designs to minimize design gaps
• Conduct and document engineering analysis including derating, reliability, radiation, EMI/EMC, FMECA, and power budgets
• Contribute to best practices and development of internal standards
• Execute development of future satellite generations, helping push the boundaries of space communications
• Maintain technical documentation that captures design decisions, design specifications, block diagrams, interface requirements, and system architecture reports
• Develop full product solutions by working closely with other cross-fun