Electrical Architect
Kepler Communications
Key Responsibilities:
- Areas of focus are:
- Own end-to-end electrical architecture for satellite power and communication systems, ensuring scalability, maintainability, reliability, and performance.
- Establish system-level electrical requirements, including interface management, clocking architectures, power and electrical budgets and flow-down of mission objectives.
- Collaborate with architects from other disciplines to inform, align, and guide the spacecraft design.
- Act as a subject matter expert, establish requirements for and lead the evaluation of COTS and other system and subsystem level components, specifically focusing on the electrical discipline.
- Ensure the quality of system, subsystem, and unit-level designs within electrical systems, while providing technical guidance to electrical designers and engineers.
- Lead and/or support project team sizing and resource planning efforts across internal and external programs, ensuring alignment and managing cost targets and development schedules.
- Represent Electrical Engineering at Kepler during internal and external design reviews (e.g. PDR,CDR, etc.).
- Assist in the establishment and modification of internal electrical design processes and procedures.
- Maintain comprehensive architecture documentation, design rationale, and implementation guidelines.
- Stay informed on emerging trends, industry standards, and best practices in space electrical architecture.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent field.
- 10+ years of electrical hardware design experience including significant experience in an Electrical Architect role.
- Experienced in mixed-signal, high-speed, and power systems, including complex systems with multiple processing elements in the space environment.
- Experience in space industry electrical development, including flight hardware and ground systems.
- Familiarity with NASA and ESA ECSS standards (e.g., ECSS-E-ST-20C).
- Knowledge of hardware/software co-design and FPGA-based processing architectures.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to create professional design standards and thorough robust design documentation.
- Experience leading complex technical projects from start to finish.