Senior Electrical Designer & Team Lead (EPS & Mechanisms)

Team: Electrical

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Commitment: Full-time Regular

Workplace Type: hybrid

Our mission is to provide real-time on-orbit connectivity for critical missions, enabling a new era of data-driven intelligence and innovation. With 33 satellites launched to date, Kepler operates the first commercial optical data relay constellation, enabling real-time, continuous space communications while supporting advanced on-orbit compute and hosted payload capabilities. 

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Responsibilities: 

• Build and maintain a center of excellence for electrical power and mechanisms by developing technical expertise, shared knowledge, engineering standards, best practices and reusable design solutions 

• Lead the design and development of electrical power and mechanisms hardware, providing technical direction and oversight from architecture through integration and verification 

• Develop complex electrical hardware designs, including schematic capture, PCB layout, board-level testing and supporting documentation 

• Lead technical design reviews, ensuring design issues and risks are identified, appropriately dispositioned and tracked to closure 

• Perform and oversee engineering analyses, including trade studies, worst-case analysis, derating, reliability, radiation, EMI/EMC, FMECA and power budgets 

• Ensure technical documentation captures design decisions, specifications, architecture, interface requirements and verification results 

Team Lead Responsibilities: 

• Provide technical leadership, mentorship and guidance to the electrical power and mechanisms team, fostering collaboration, technical excellence and professional development 

• Coordinate technical activities, priorities and workload within the team, identifying resource constraints and escalating risks to the functional manager 

• Provide day-to-day people management for a small number of direct reports, including regular 1:1s, time-off requests and time tracking approvals 

• Support the functional manager with employee development, performance feedback, hiring and other personnel management activities in alignment with company processes 

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent 

• 7+ years of hardware design experience (schematic and layout) 

• Demonstrated ability to define, develop and deliver complex, multi-board electrical subsystems, including architecture, interface definition, integration and verification 

• Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers and coordinating complex development activities involving multiple contributors 

• Strong proficiency with Altium Designer for complex schematic and PCB layout development 

• Experience designing electrical power and/or control hardware, including power conversion, battery management, power distribution, motor/actuator control or thermal control 

• Strong understanding of power electronics fundamentals, including DC/DC converter topologies, control-loop stability, transient response, efficiency, protection and thermal design 

• Experience incorporating thermal considerations into electronic hardware design, including power dissipation, component temperature limits, and thermal management 

• Proven ability to develop hardware in fast-paced, iterative environments with evolving requirements and technical uncertainty 

• Hands-on experience with hardware bring up, debugging and validation using oscilloscopes, electronic loads, power supplies and other electrical test equipment 

• Strong communication skills and ability to generate thorough and clear design documentation 

• Demonstrated willingness and ability to leverage AI-assisted engineering and development tools to improve productivity, design quality, and innovation while adapting to evolving technologies and best practices  

Bonus Points:

• Experience developing hardware for space, aerospace or other high-reliability environments, including consideration of radiation, vacuum, shock, vibration and environmental qualification 

• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation 

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering with a focus on power conversion or similar 

Actual total compensation will be determined at the Company’s discretion and is based on a variety of job-related factors, which may include, but are not limited to, relevant knowledge, skills, experience, performance, and education and/or training. The Company encourages all qualified applicants to apply, even if the posted salary range does not align with their expectations, as it does not reflect our total compensation package. 
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