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 skilled Senior Satellite Onboard Computer (OBC) engineer to join our dynamic team to conceptualize and architect OBC. The engineer will be responsible for leading a team of analog, embedded hardware and embedded software engineers to design, develop and realize state of art OBC for cubesat/microsat bus.

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, galvanizing workspace, blazing team—pretty much everything you have heard about a startup

Ideal Candidate

• Someone with expertise in leading the design, development of OBC for Cubesat/Microsat satellites designed to operate in Low Earth Orbit(LEO), with strong focus on high performance and fault-tolerance.

Responsibilities

• Architect the Cubesat/Microsat OBC and optimize its configuration to meet the satellite bus and payload requirements.

• Generate the OBC hardware, flight software requirements in collaboration with subsystem and payload design engineers.

• Lead the team of analog, embedded hardware and software engineers to develop OBC capable of telemetry, telecommand handling, AOCS interface and payload data management.

• Develop the robust flight software architecture, FDIR requirements and software verification and validation strategy.

• Mentor the engineers in designing OBC, payload interface units and review the schematics, simulation results.

• Develop the comprehensive test procedures for subsystem level, satellite level interface tests and resolve observations during integration and test phases.

Qualifications

• B.Tech/B.E in Electronics Engineering or M.Tech/M.E or PhD degree in Electronics design/Microelectronics/VLSI.

• 6 to 10 years of demonstrated experience in design, development of onboard computer/payload interface unit for LEO satellites.

• Experience of implementing fault-tolerant embedded systems with knowledge of CCSDS standards for telemetry, telecommand and payload data handling.

• Strong proficiency in bare-metal and RTOS programming for embedded systems, with expertise in real-time scheduling and interrupt handling.

• Proficiency in Embedded C, C/C++ programming languages.

• Strong understanding in data communication protocols such as I2C, UART, SPI, Gigabit Ethernet, LVDS, RS422/485 etc.

• Strong expertise in understanding and implementation of EMI/EMC control with best design practices.

• Knowledge of standards for cubesat/microsat hardware development.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in VHDL/Verilog and high-level synthesis.

• Working knowledge of MATLAB/Simulink and PCB design tools.

• Experience in software configuration management tools and defect tracking tools.

• Knowledge of the latest trends in miniaturization of avionics for cubesat/microsat.

• Good understanding of satellite subsystems and systems-first development approach.

• Familiarity with satellite electrical ground support equipment to test OBC and payload interfaces.

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 communications skills as well as organizational skills.

• Travel occasionally as necessary.

Join Digantara and be part of dynamic team pushing the boundaries of satellite technology!