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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.\nAt 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.\nDigantara 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.\nEmphasis is placed on the characteristics that determine operational value false-positive behavior under degraded observations, calibration of confidence metrics suitable for operator use, and inference cost compatible with constrained onboard processing. The role works closely with astrodynamics and embedded-systems staff to ensure models reflect genuine dynamical structure and remain deployable within onboard resource limits.\nWhy Us?\nBe part of a collaborative, innovative and mission-focused environment where your ideas and skills have significant, real-world impact.\n\nShape company culture, set the foundation for future success, build world-class teams.\n\nCompetitive salary, benefits and equity package.\n\nResponsibilities:\nProfile 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.\n\nCharacterize 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.\n\nIdentify and quantify computational bottlenecks by pipeline stage and platform class.\n\nDevelop CPU/FPGA partitioning options and identify candidate functions for hardware acceleration, with assessment of the associated engineering cost.\n\nWork 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.\n\nAssess radiation-environment implications for the relevant orbital regimes: SEU/SEFI rates, mitigation approaches (TMR, scrubbing, checkpointing).\n\nContribute the onboard-processing portion of reference architectures: processing-element definition, data flow, interfaces to sensing and communications, and encrypted alert-generation paths.\n\nDevelop 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.\n\nQualifications:\nBS/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.\n\nStrong C/C++ and Python, with the ability to prototype using AI coding agents and profile and optimize numerically intensive code and.\n\nDemonstrated experience with at least one radiation-hardened or radiation-tolerant processing platform, and working familiarity with the broader landscape.\n\nHands-on FPGA experience: VHDL or Verilog, HLS toolchains, and sound judgment about appropriate hardware/software partitioning.\n\nReal-time and resource-constrained system design: SWaP budgeting, latency analysis, and deterministic memory management.\n\nAbility to produce trade studies that withstand technical review, with stated assumptions, bounded uncertainty, and conclusions traceable to data.\n\nMust be able to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance\n\nPreferred Qualities:\nSpaceflight heritage: hardware that has flown, or that progressed far enough through qualification to demonstrate its demands firsthand.\n\nExperience deploying ML inference to embedded or FPGA targets (quantization, fixed-point conversion, accelerator IP).\n\nFamiliarity with spacecraft avionics architecture, onboard data handling, and flight-software standards (DO-178C, NASA NPR 7150.2, or similar).\n\nWorking knowledge of onboard cryptographic implementation and key-management.\n\nPrior SBIR/STTR or comparable government R&D experience, including authoring roadmap and transition-planning material.\n\nGeneral Requirements:\nWriting and delivering technical documents and briefings.\n\nVerbal and written communication skills as well as organizational skills.\n\nMust be a U.S. citizen.\n\nTravel occasionally as necessary.\n\nDigantara 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. 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