Embedded Systems Engineer

Socket.dev; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity package

Benefits

Job summary

Digantara U.S. is seeking an experienced Embedded Systems Engineer to determine deployment feasibility for spaceflight-grade algorithms on resource-constrained platforms. You will profile architectures, assess time, memory, and power budgets, and deliver defensible trade studies and roadmaps for customers and program reviews.

The role collaborates with astrodynamics and embedded-systems staff to ensure models fit onboard limits and reflect genuine dynamical structure, with US security clearance.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
• Strong C/C++ and Python, with profiling and optimization skills.
• Hands-on FPGA experience: VHDL/Verilog, HLS, and partitioning knowledge.
• Real-time, resource-constrained system design with SWaP budgeting.
• Experience with radiation-hardened or radiation-tolerant processing platforms.

Responsibilities

• Profile analytical workflows across candidate onboard processing architectures and assess performance and power budgets.
• Characterize throughput, memory footprint, latency, and power with measured data or bounded estimates.
• Identify bottlenecks by pipeline stage and platform class.
• Develop CPU/FPGA partitioning options and hardware acceleration candidates.
• Collaborate with data-science and astrodynamics staff on reduced-order methods and fixed-point algorithms.
• Assess radiation-environment implications for relevant orbital regimes and mitigation approaches.
• Contribute onboard-processing portions of reference architectures and data interfaces.
• Create technology-maturation roadmaps with TRL progression and validation approaches.

Skills

C/C++

Python

FPGA design

RTOS/Embedded

Trade studies

Education

BS/MS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

VHDL/Verilog

HLS toolchains

Radiation-hardened platforms

Job description

Digantara U.S. 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 U.S. is seeking an experienced and driven Embedded Systems Engineer to determine whether the company's analytical workflows can be deployed on spaceflight and other resource-constrained processing platforms, and provides the deployment reality constraint for algorithm and model development. The role profiles workflows across representative processing architectures, identifies where processing time, memory, and power are consumed, and determines what can be partitioned, accelerated, simplified, or removed. Findings are captured in defensible trade studies and technology-maturation roadmaps suitable for customer and follow-on program review.

The role works closely with astrodynamics and embedded-systems staff to ensure models reflect genuine dynamical structure and remain deployable within onboard resource limits.

Why Us?

• Be part of a collaborative, innovative and mission-focused environment where your ideas and skills have significant, real-world impact.
• Shape company culture, set the foundation for future success, build world-class teams.
• Competitive salary, benefits and equity package.

Responsibilities:

• Profile analytical workflows across candidate onboard processing architectures, including radiation-hardened and radiation-tolerant classes such as BAE RAD5545, Cobham GR740, Microchip PolarFire SoC RT/MV variants, Xilinx KU060-class rad-tolerant FPGAs, Mercury TR-MX1, Aitech S-A1760, and rad-screened NVIDIA platforms.
• Characterize throughput, memory footprint, latency, and power for each candidate, using measured data where hardware or representative surrogates are available and clearly bounded estimates otherwise, with the basis for each clearly identified.
• Identify and quantify computational bottlenecks by pipeline stage and platform class.
• Develop CPU/FPGA partitioning options and identify candidate functions for hardware acceleration, with assessment of the associated engineering cost.
• Work with data-science and astrodynamics staff on algorithmic simplification opportunities reduced-order propagation, fixed-point arithmetic, model compression quantifying the performance cost of each rather than assuming it negligible.
• Assess radiation-environment implications for the relevant orbital regimes: SEU/SEFI rates, mitigation approaches (TMR, scrubbing, checkpointing).
• Contribute the onboard-processing portion of reference architectures: processing-element definition, data flow, interfaces to sensing and communications, and encrypted alert-generation paths.
• Develop technology-maturation roadmaps: critical technology element identification, TRL progression logic, hardware-in-the-loop validation approaches, and transition pathways such as hosted-payload and rideshare deployment. Produce calibrated confidence metrics suitable for downstream operational use, documented precisely enough to support operator decisions.

Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, plus [5] + years of embedded-systems experience, including work on space, avionics, or other constrained, high-reliability platforms.
• Strong C/C++ and Python, with the ability to prototype using AI coding agents and profile and optimize numerically intensive code and.
• Demonstrated experience with at least one radiation-hardened or radiation-tolerant processing platform, and working familiarity with the broader landscape.
• Hands-on FPGA experience: VHDL or Verilog, HLS toolchains, and sound judgment about appropriate hardware/software partitioning.
• Real-time and resource-constrained system design: SWaP budgeting, latency analysis, and deterministic memory management.
• Ability to produce trade studies that withstand technical review, with stated assumptions, bounded uncertainty, and conclusions traceable to data.
• Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance
  

Preferred Qualities:

• Spaceflight heritage: hardware that has flown, or that progressed far enough through qualification to demonstrate its demands firsthand.
• Experience deploying ML inference to embedded or FPGA targets (quantization, fixed-point conversion, accelerator IP).
• Familiarity with spacecraft avionics architecture, onboard data handling, and flight-software standards (DO-178C, NASA NPR 7150.2, or similar).
• Working knowledge of onboard cryptographic implementation and key-management.
• Prior SBIR/STTR or comparable government R&D experience, including authoring roadmap and transition-planning material.

General Requirements:

• Writing and delivering technical documents and briefings.
• Verbal and written communication skills as well as organizational skills.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Travel occasionally as necessary.
  

Digantara US is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other attribute protected under applicable law. All employment decisions are strictly made on the basis of merit, competency & qualifications.

Job Location: Denver, Colorado, USA