Digantara is redefining space safety and sustainability. As a leader in Space Surveillance and Intelligence, we deliver real-time, actionable insights to ensure secure and sustainable use of Earth’s orbits. Our cutting-edge platform integrates advanced space-based detection, tracking, and monitoring to provide unparalleled domain awareness across all orbital regimes. At the cutting edge of this technology, Digantara is building hardware and mission-critical software. But behind every successful team is an invisible engine that keeps projects moving with clarity, speed, and precision.

Join our team as a CAD Engineer/Draftsman, where your creativity and technical precision will directly shape the future of satellite missions. In this role, you will craft detailed drawings and CAD models for payloads and satellite subsystems, with every line you draw contributing to hardware that launches into space.

Why Us?

• Be part of a collaborative and innovative environment where your ideas and skills make a real difference to the entire space realm.

• Push the boundaries with hands-on experience, greater responsibilities, and rapid career advancement.

• Competitive incentives, a galvanizing workspace, and a blazing team—pretty much everything you have heard about a startup.

Ideal Candidate:

Has a strong foundation in CAD drafting, with the ability to understand and convert mechanical layouts and assemblies provided by engineers into fully detailed drawings.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare detailed 2D drawings and 3D CAD models from design inputs, sketches, and specifications provided by design engineers.

• Apply GD&T principles to ensure precision and manufacturability of components.

• Create assembly drawings, part lists, exploded views, and bill of materials (BOMs) for manufacturing and assembly.

• Maintain and control documentation, including revision control of drawings, manufacturing instructions, quality records and CAD book-keeping.

• Ensure compliance with industry drawing standards and company drafting practices.

• Perform basic tolerance stack-ups and dimension checks to validate drawing correctness before release.

Qualifications:

• Diploma or ITI in Mechanical Draftsmanship, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline.

• 2–4 years of experience in mechanical drafting for precision machinery, instruments, or scientific equipment.

• Proficiency in CAD software (AutoCAD, SolidWorks preferred; familiarity with NX, or similar is valuable).

• Good understanding of GD&T practices and engineering drawing standards (ASME Y14.5 or equivalent).

• Ability to review and check drawings for accuracy, completeness, and compliance before release.

• Experience preparing fabrication drawings, machining drawings, and assembly documentation.

• Exposure to materials, surface finishes, and machining/fabrication techniques.

• Familiarity with document and revision control systems.

Preferred Qualities:

• Experience working on scientific instruments or special purpose machinery.

• Good communication skills to work with engineers, vendors, and shop floor teams.

• Detail-oriented with a focus on precision and clarity in engineering documentation.

• Basic knowledge of mechanical design concepts, tolerancing, and fits & limits.

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.

Job Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru