Junior Embedded Software Engineer in Bengaluru, Karnātaka at digantara

Digantara is a leading Space Surveillance and Intelligence​ company focused on ensuring orbital safety and sustainability. With expertise in space-based detection, tracking, identification, and monitoring, Digantara provides comprehensive domain awareness across regimes, allowing end users to have actionable intelligence on a single platform. At the core of its infrastructure lies a sophisticated integration of hardware and software capabilities aligned with the key principles of situational awareness: perception (data collection), comprehension (data processing), and prediction (analytics). This holistic approach empowers Digantara to monitor all Resident Space Objects (RSOs) in orbit, fostering comprehensive domain awareness.

Digantara is seeking a highly motivated Junior Embedded Software Engineer to design and develop embedded software modules for the satellite payload. The engineer will be responsible for implementing memory controllers, data/control interface modules of payload with satellite bus.

• Competitive incentives, galvanizing workspace, blazing team, frequent outings—pretty much everything you have heard about a startup + you get to work on space technology

• Hustle in a well-funded startup, allowing you to take charge of your responsibilities and create your moonshot

• Someone with strong embedded software coding skills with practical experience on AMD-Xilinx/Microchip FPGA/SoC platforms

• Design and develop key embedded software modules for the satellite payload

• Collaborate with senior engineers to generate module level design, verification requirements and rigorous test plans

• Implement memory controllers within the payload, communication protocols for data transfer between the satellite payload and bus systems

• Develop clean, well-structured, maintainable code and execute comprehensive testing

• Utilize AMD-Xilinx/Microchip EDA tools (e.g: Vivado/Vitis IDE, Libero SoC design suite) to develop efficient embedded software solutions

• Troubleshoot and resolve embedded software defects and hardware interface issues

• B.Tech/B.E in Electronics Engineering or M.Tech/M.E Microelectronics/Embedded systems/VLSI. Final year undergraduate/graduate students are eligible to apply

• Up to 1 year of experience in embedded software development on ARM Cortex processor with a strong understanding of the processor architecture

• Proficiency in Embedded C, C/C++ programming languages

• Experience in bare-metal and RTOS programming for embedded systems, with expertise in real-time scheduling and interrupt handling

• Good understanding in data communication protocols such as I2C, UART, SPI, CAN, Gigabit Ethernet, RS422 etc

• Experience in utilizing oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and electronic test equipment for debugging and verification

• Experience in HLS (High Level Synthesis) and hardware-related programming of FPGA/SoC interfaces

• Working knowledge of FPGA/SoC-based embedded systems designed for image processing applications

• Familiarity with the use of version control software and defect tracking tools

• Knowledge of VHDL/Verilog for digital system design

• Ability to work in a mission-focused, operational environment

• Ability to think critically and make independent decisions

• Interpersonal skills to enable working in a diverse and dynamic team

• Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule

• Writing and delivering technical documents and briefings

• Verbal and written communication skills as well as organizational skills

• Travel occasionally as necessary