Job Overview
Location
Toronto, Ontario
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Mechanical Engineer
Date Posted
May 7, 2026
Full Job Description
📋 Description
- • Lead the mechanical engineering function at Kepler Communications, supporting the development and delivery of next-generation space hardware for real-time Internet access in space.
- • Oversee staffing, alignment, growth, and performance of the mechanical engineering organization through managers, team leads, and senior individual contributors.
- • Drive organizational leadership, develop engineering leaders, and ensure alignment with program needs and execution across integrated product teams (IPTs) and program teams.
- • Contribute to Kepler’s mission of providing real-time Internet access for space-based assets, enabling data-driven exploration and innovation through its commercial optical data relay constellation.
🎯 Requirements
- • Proven experience leading mechanical engineering teams in aerospace, space systems, or high-reliability hardware development.
- • Demonstrated ability to scale engineering organizations, develop talent, and align technical teams with program execution.
- • Strong background in mechanical design, analysis, and integration of spaceflight hardware, including structural, thermal, and mechanisms expertise.
- • Experience working within integrated product teams (IPTs) and managing cross-functional dependencies in complex engineering programs.
- • Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive compensation with a robust equity plan to share in the company’s success.
- • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance coverage, including dependents.
- • Unlimited vacation, supportive parental leave policy, and company-wide holiday shutdowns.
- • $1,500 annual professional development fund to support continuous learning and growth.
- • Fully stocked Toronto office kitchen with snacks, drinks, games, and top-notch appliances.
- • Regular team events, semi-annual company-wide parties, and access to Town Halls and Celebration Calls.
Skills & Technologies
About Kepler Communications Inc.
Kepler Communications Inc. designs, builds, and operates low-Earth-orbit satellites and ground infrastructure to deliver global data connectivity. Founded in 2015 in Toronto, the company provides narrowband and broadband IoT, store-and-forward, and real-time communications services for maritime, defense, agriculture, and research customers. Its growing constellation relays telemetry, imagery, and high-throughput packets across polar and remote regions lacking terrestrial coverage. Kepler handles satellite manufacturing, mission control, spectrum licensing, and end-user terminals, aiming to create an in-space relay network that integrates with existing fiber and 5G systems.
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