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 all regimes, enabling end-users to gain 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.

We are looking for a Data Scientist with strong expertise in building, validating, and deploying AI models for space applications.

Why Us?

Join a well-funded, fast-growing startup at the forefront of space technology. At Digantara, you’ll work on groundbreaking projects that ensure orbital safety and sustainability. We offer competitive incentives, a collaborative environment, and opportunities to innovate from day one.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain statistical or AI/ML models for space operations.

• Design and implement scalable, cloud-based solutions for efficient satellite data processing.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, software engineers, astrodynamics engineers and operations team to integrate data, including images, processing pipelines into production systems.

• Conduct research to enhance optimization and estimation techniques relevant to astrodynamics applications.

• Prepare technical documentation, reports, and visualizations to communicate results to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

• B.E./B.Tech., Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or related fields. Ph.D. candidates require no prior industry experience; Master’s candidates should have at least 1 year of industry experience; and B.E./B.Tech. candidates should have at least 3 years of industry experience.

• Proficiency in Python (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, PyTorch/TensorFlow) and SQL.

• Experience working with large datasets, data preprocessing, algorithm validation, and implementing CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience using version control systems (Git) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

• Strong foundation in statistics and data science related concepts.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualities:

• Proficiency in high-performance computing (HPC), specializing in performance optimization through GPU acceleration and parallel processing frameworks.

• Proven experience in optimization algorithms and operations research.

• Experience with OpenCV.

General Requirements:

• Ability to take direction and work independently.

• 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