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 looking for a Mission Operations Engineer to work on the planning and execution of our space-based SSA infrastructure. The mission operations engineer will provide expertise to ensure the smooth and well-planned operation of Digantara’s space-based assets.

Why Us?

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

• Hustle in a well-funded startup with a flat hierarchy that allows you to take charge of your responsibilities and create your own moonshot.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare detailed mission plans and flight procedures for nominal and contingency operations for Digantara’s space missions.

• Planning, scheduling, execution, and reporting of real-time operations from LEOP to decommissioning spacecraft.

• Develop and implement methods and software scripts for operational automation to reduce day-to-day operator responsibilities.

• Design and execute strategies for testing, simulation, and validation of mission/fault/autonomy design.

• Preparation of payload operations support (CONOPS, Payload operating procedures, calibration procedures, commissioning procedures, etc.)

• Support ground segment design and test, including command and control, mission data processing, and the associated infrastructure to support all activities.

• Interface with ground station networks, spacecraft manufacturers, and payload development teams to ensure smooth coordination of mission activities.

• Conduct critical ground segment testing, including radio-frequency compatibility testing, remote ground facility interface testing, and acceptance testing of critical ground assets/locations

• Participate in formal Mission Rehearsal events to train the mission team and to validate the mission design

• Contribution to operational documentation (Flight Operational Handbook, Mission Operations Plan, Commissioning and Decommissioning Plans, etc.)

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in science and engineering-related programs.

• 3 years of experience in space mission operations, satellite systems engineering or AIT

• Deep understanding of satellite subsystems

• Knowledge of orbital mechanics

• Proficient in Python or any other scripting language

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in spacecraft mission operations.

• Experience in contributing throughout the lifecycle of a satellite mission.

• Knowledge of ground station operations, RF communication systems, and protocols.

• Understanding of network and telecommunications engineering.

• Experience in software development

• Experience with Data Analysis

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

Job Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru