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 seeks a Lead Satellite Onboard Computer (OBC) engineer to join our dynamic team in conceptualizing and architecting the OBC. The engineer will be responsible for leading a team of analog, embedded hardware, and embedded software engineers to design, develop, and realize a state-of-the-art OBC for a 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 and development of OBC for CubeSat/MicroSat satellites designed to operate in Low Earth Orbit(LEO), with a 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 and flight software requirements in collaboration with subsystem and payload design engineers.

• Lead the analog, embedded hardware, and software engineers team to develop an 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 and simulation results.

• Develop the comprehensive test procedures for subsystem-level and satellite-level interface tests and resolve observations during the 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 the design and development of onboard computer/payload interface units for LEO satellites.

• Experience 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 and C/C++ programming languages.

• Strong understanding of 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 the 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 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!