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