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 proficient Lead Satellite Structural Engineer to join our dynamic team who is passionate about how an assembled structure outperforms expectations while comprising different materials and structural members that are shaped and machined in various ways. In this role, the candidate leverages expertise to design, develop, and realize CubeSat/MicroSat and ground support structures.

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 strong experience leading the design, analysis, and realization of structures for CubeSats and MicroSats in Low-Earth Orbit.

Responsibilities

• Carry out design trade-offs and generate hardware configurations based on the satellite bus and payload requirements.

• Lead structural design engineers, create CAD models, and conduct analytical calculations, simulations, and finite element analysis to ensure the hardware design meets all system requirements.

• Assess the impact of change in hardware design on system-level thermal, environmental, and load characteristics.

• Convert finalised CAD models into documentation for hardware realization(e.g., fabrication drawings, assembly procedure documents, integration requirements, etc.).

• Ensure DFM and AIT readiness of the cubesat/microsat structure.

• Design and realise tools, fixtures, and jigs required to assemble and test the hardware.

• Create detailed test plans, execute structural hardware testing for qualification and acceptance.

Required Qualifications

• B.Tech/B.E, M.Tech/M.E, or PhD in Aerospace /Mechanical/ Structural Engineering.

• 6 to 10 years of professional experience in designing and realizing CubeSat/microsat structures & related mechanical ground support equipment.

• Proven expertise with aerospace hardware development projects, from conceptualisation to hardware realisation, testing, and delivery.

• Strong proficiency in working on CAD and FEA software like SolidWorks, NX, Ansys, NASTRAN, or any equivalent.

• Experience with material selection, qualification, and vibration testing.

Preferred Skills

• Strong first principles thinking with a deep understanding of structural design, analysis, and testing.

• Experience in assembly, fabrication, and machining of structural components.

• Prior experience in leading a team for design and developmental activities.

• Understanding of satellite subsystems and systems-first development approach.

• Being a part of complex projects while playing a key role in the overall project management process.

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 da ynamic team pushing the boundaries of satellite technology!