Junior Embedded Software Engineer

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.

Why Us?

• 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
  
  

Ideal Candidate

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

Responsibilities

• 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
  
  

Required Qualifications

• 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
  
  

Preferred Skills

• 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
  
  

General Requirements

• 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
  
  

Job Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru

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