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 Lead Satellite Electrical Power System (EPS) engineer to conceptualize and architect the CubeSat/microsat power system. You will leverage your experience leading a team of multidisciplinary engineers to design, develop, and realize EPS for CubeSat/microsat in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO).

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 experience leading the design and development of CubeSat/MicroSat electrical power systems, with a strong focus on miniaturization and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Architect the CubeSat/MicroSat EPS and optimize the configuration to meet the electrical requirements.

• Carry out EPS subsystem-level trade-off studies in collaboration with other subsystems, system engineers, and select power system components.

• Lead the solar panel, battery, and power electronics engineers team towards the successful realization of EPS.

• Analyse the power budget under various mission scenarios, study the energy balance for LEO satellites, and maintain specifications and interface control documents.

• Lead the engineers in designing power conditioning, power control, and battery management circuits, and analysing simulation and test results.

• Develop comprehensive test procedures for EPS at the subsystem and satellite levels and resolve the observations during the subsystem/satellite integration and test phases.

Qualifications

• B.Tech/B.E in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or M.Tech/M.E or PhD degree in Electrical/Electronics/Power Electronics.

• 6 to 10 years of demonstrated experience in design, development of EPS for LEO satellites.

• Strong expertise in power bus architecture, power conditioning, power control & distribution, and battery management circuit design.

• Knowledge of CubeSat/MicroSat solar panels and battery characterization, with a good understanding of interactions between power sources and energy storage.

• Proficiency in PCB schematic design (OrCAD/Altium) and simulation tools, PSPICE/LTspice.

• Experience in the implementation of EMI control at the power source level.

• Knowledge of industry standards and best practices for CubeSat/MicroSat EPS hardware development.

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with EPS modelling & simulation in MATLAB/Simulink or Python.

• Prior experience in successfully leading a multi-disciplinary team for design and development activities.

• Familiarity with solar panel/battery fabrication and assembly procedures.

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

• Familiarity with Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) to test satellite EPS.

• Knowledge of the latest advancements in the miniaturization of EPS for small satellites.

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 communication skills, as well as organizational skills.

• Travel occasionally as necessary.

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