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Space Systems Engineer

Full Time · Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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.

We are seeking a proficient Space Systems Engineer to join our dynamic team. This person is expected to be passionate about how various components and independent subsystems can be combined to achieve final system/product goals. In this role, you will be expected to work on building Space systems and ground systems with space applications.

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

  • Prior experience in systems engineering of spacecraft/launch vehicles/ground stations / ground-based optical or RF observatories.

Responsibilities:

  • Define, document, and manage system requirements throughout the product lifecycle. Plan, configure, and allocate requirements to subsystems, ensuring coherence and traceability throughout the design process.

  • Perform system-level trade-off studies to optimize performance, reliability, and cost.

  • Develop and maintain system-level documentation, including specifications, interface control documents, and system design descriptions.

  • Conduct requirements analysis, verification, and validation activities to ensure compliance with customer needs and industry standards.

  • Develop risk mitigation plans and monitor their implementation.

  • Facilitate customer and stakeholder engagement to capture and understand their needs and expectations. Communicate technical concepts, requirements, and issues clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelors or Masters in Aerospace, Systems Engineering, Mechanical, Electronics or a relevant discipline.

  • 2+ years of professional experience in satellite or Space-affiliated ground segments.

  • Understanding of all the critical subsystems and segments that make up a satellite mission

  • Experience in engineering project management, ensuring timely delivery, resource allocation, risk management, and effective team collaboration.

Preferred Qualities:

  • Have design and realization experience in a specific satellite subsystem and/or satellite AIT experience

  • Skilled in creating detailed technical reports, contents, manuals, and operational guidelines.

  • Experience with SysML and ECSS standards or similar

  • Professional certification in Systems Engineering (Ex. INCOSE)

  • Have a can-do spirit and good problem-solving skills

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.

  • Good verbal and written communication skills, as well as organizational skills.

  • Travel occasionally as necessary.

  • Fluent in English

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