Embedded Software Designer
Kepler Communications4 months ago
Toronto, CanadaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain reliable embedded software for spacecraft and ground-based satellite systems.
- Implement secure communications capabilities, including encryption, authentication, and key exchange.
- Build and maintain device drivers, kernel modules, hardware interfaces, and platform services.
- Develop automated tests, validation tools, and technical documentation.
- Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, and code reviews.
- Collaborate with software, hardware, and operations teams to define requirements, debug issues, and evolve system architecture.
- Identify and improve performance, reliability, and architectural issues across the software stack.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers.
Requirements
- 4+ 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.
- Proficiency in C/C++ for embedded systems, including concurrency, interrupt handling, memory-mapped peripherals, SPI, I2C, UART, and CAN.
- Experience with embedded Linux and/or RTOS environments, including Yocto/OpenEmbedded and FreeRTOS.
- Experience developing Linux kernel modules, device drivers, and device tree integrations.
- Experience with automated test frameworks, validation tooling, or hardware/software integration test environments.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in system design, debugging, testing, performance analysis, and maintainable code development.
- Experience with Git-based version control and code review workflows.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree, aerospace software experience, embedded security experience, Linux networking knowledge, multi-stage bootloader experience, networking protocol knowledge, and RTL experience with Verilog or VHDL.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation with a robust equity plan.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance, including dependent coverage.
- Unlimited vacation, supportive parental leave, and a company-wide holiday shutdown.
- Semi-annual company-wide parties and frequent in-office team events.
- Relocation packages for approved roles.
- $1,500 annual professional development fund.
- Fully stocked Toronto office kitchen with snacks, drinks, and games.
- Town halls, celebration calls, and company-wide events.
About Kepler Communications
Kepler Communications builds and operates a low-Earth-orbit satellite network for space-to-space data relay, offering real-time connectivity, on-orbit compute support, and hosted payload services to commercial and government missions. The Toronto-based, privately held company, founded in 2015, is vertically integrated with in-house satellite production. Kepler has launched 33 satellites and is developing a hybrid optical constellation designed to act as Internet exchange points for spacecraft.