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 passionate “Mechanical Engineer—Scientific Instruments” to design and realise cutting-edge mechanical hardware for space-based and ground-based telescopes, which suit space surveillance applications. The engineer will be responsible for designing and successfully realizing high-precision optomechanical elements for space-based and ground-based telescopes.

Why Us?

• Competitive incentives, galvanizing workspace, blazing team, frequent outings—pretty much everything you have heard about a startup + you get to work on space technology.

• Hustle in a well-funded startup, allowing you to take charge of your responsibilities and create your moonshot.

Ideal Candidate:

• Someone with experience in the realization of high-precision mechanical elements for scientific instruments/satellite electro-optical payloads/ground-based telescopes with a strong focus on manufacturing and assembly.

Responsibilities:

• Conceptualizing and developing innovative precision mechanical designs for ground-based and space-based telescope systems to meet high-performance requirements.

• Conducting feasibility studies and technical assessments to evaluate design concepts and propose optimal solutions with a focus on manufacturability and assembly.

• Creating detailed engineering CAD and manufacturing drawings (using GD&T techniques) using advanced CAD software.

• Performing detailed structural analysis, stress analysis, and tolerance analysis to ensure the integrity and performance of designs using Ansys, Nastran, or equivalent software.

• Selecting appropriate components, materials, and manufacturing processes to achieve the desired functionality and reliability.

• Working closely with vendors and suppliers to source components and ensure that fabricated components adhere to quality standards.

• Developing comprehensive technical documentation, including design specifications, manufacturing control procedures, maintenance procedures, and quality control documents.

Required Qualification:

• B.Tech/B.E in Mechanical/Aerospace or M.Tech in Mechanical/Structures/Aerospace engineering or equivalent.

• 3 to 6 years of experience in designing and realizing precision machinery/large telescopes/scientific instruments.

• Strong proficiency in load calculations, CAD knowledge, and understanding of mechanical design principles, machine kinematics, and structural mechanics.

• Proficiency in SolidWorks with expertise in static structural FEA with software such as Ansys, Nastran, NX Femap, or equivalent.

• Strong knowledge of GD&T with the ability to generate and read engineering drawings.

• Basic structural calculations and understanding of free-body diagrams.

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of machining processes, materials selection, and fabrication techniques.

• Familiarity with quality assurance practices of high-precision mechanical fabrication.

• Understanding of the opto-mechanical design techniques for ground/space-based telescopes.

• Understanding of thermal management of the system with experience in thermal design/analysis software tools.

• Experience in opto-mechanics from concept to assembly is an advantage.