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.
Key Responsibilities
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
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
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
Product Ownership & Delivery
Integrated Execution
Team & Execution Excellence
Required Skills & Qualifications
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
Bonus Points
Electrical or electronics engineering background
Experience developing RF, radio, communications, or antenna hardware
Experience developing spacecraft, aerospace, or other mission-critical hardware
Experience managing external suppliers through development and delivery
Experience transitioning hardware from development into repeatable production
Salary Range: $139,000 - 164,000 CAD
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.
Job Type: This is for a current vacancy
Skills Required
- 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
- Electrical or electronics engineering background
- Experience developing RF, radio, communications, or antenna hardware
- Experience developing spacecraft, aerospace, or other mission-critical hardware
- Experience managing external suppliers through development and delivery
- Experience transitioning hardware from development into repeatable production
What We Do
Kepler designs, builds, launches, and operates an advanced network of low earth orbit satellites with the ultimate goal of bringing internet to outer space. Today, Kepler serves the needs of earth by connecting machines all around the world using its satellites on orbit and other complementary networks. Through a host of compatible partner equipment we make it easy to use satellite communications in your solution and route data over the best networks.
