Kepler Communications operates a commercial optical data relay constellation of 33+ satellites providing on-orbit connectivity. This role is a 6+ month contract for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer focused on developing and maintaining reliable embedded software for both spacecraft and ground-based systems supporting a growing fleet of satellites.

What You'll Do

- Design, develop, and maintain reliable, high-quality embedded software for spacecraft and ground-based systems supporting a growing satellite fleet
- Design and implement secure communications capabilities, including encryption, authentication, and key exchange for next-generation data links
- Build and maintain low-level software components including device drivers, kernel modules, hardware interfaces, and platform services
- Develop automated tests, validation tools, and technical documentation to support robust software delivery and long-term maintainability
- Participate in software architecture discussions, design reviews, and code reviews; provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers

What You Need

- 6+ years of experience developing embedded software for complex, high-reliability systems
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong software engineering fundamentals including system design, debugging, testing, performance analysis, and maintainable code development
- Proficiency in C/C++ for embedded systems, including concurrency,



interrupt handling, memory-mapped peripherals, and hardware communication interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN)
- Experience developing software for embedded Linux and/or RTOS environments, including familiarity with Yocto/OpenEmbedded and FreeRTOS
- Experience developing low-level embedded Linux components including kernel modules, device drivers, and device tree integrations
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills; proficiency with Git-based version control and code review practices

Nice to Have

- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
- Experience developing software for aerospace applications
- Experience implementing embedded security solutions such as secure boot, HSMs, certificate/key management, and encrypted communications
- Familiarity with Linux networking concepts including routing, interfaces, netlink, and packet-processing pipelines
- Experience developing multi-stage bootloaders
- Strong knowledge of computer networking and modern networking protocols
- Experience with RTL (Verilog and/or VHDL) and embedded SoCs

Competitive compensation with a robust equity plan. Health, dental, and vision insurance including dependents. Unlimited vacation, supportive parental leave policy, company-wide holiday shutdown, semi-annual company-wide parties, frequent in-office team events, relocation packages available, $1,500 annual career development fund.

📌 Senior Embedded Software Designer (Toronto)
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📍 Toronto