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 all regimes, enabling end-users to access 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 highly skilled Thermal Engineer to join our dynamic team who is passionate about modelling, design, and analysis of thermal environment for payload/satellite subsystems. In this role, the candidate leverages expertise to design, develop, and implement thermal control systems for payload and satellite subsystems.

Why Us?

• Competitive incentives, galvanizing workspace, blazing team, frequent outings—pretty much everything you have heard about a startup + plus 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 professional experience in the design, analysis, and implementation of thermal control systems for satellites operating in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

Responsibilities:

• Create thermal models of payload and satellite subsystems, and conduct simulations by determining the appropriate boundary conditions

• Select and implement active/passive thermal components to achieve optimal thermal performance in LEO

• Analyse thermal interfaces, heat sinks for electronic packages/avionics, and develop appropriate thermal control schemes

• Generate thermal control system requirements in collaboration with system, mission, structures, and avionics engineers, and perform design trade-off studies

• Collaborate with hardware engineers to design and develop thermal control systems, and conduct extensive modeling of internal and external thermal environments for payload and satellite subsystems

• Generate test plans and execute tests to validate the thermal performance of subsystems

Required Qualifications:

• B.Tech/B.E, M.Tech/M.E, or PhD in Mechanical/Thermal/Aerospace Engineering degrees in physics, materials science, or electrical engineering, or any branches(with a focus on thermal management), can also be relevant if the incumbent has experience in thermal analysis and modelling

• 3+ years of professional experience in thermal design and analysis of complex engineering systems

• Strong understanding of different heat transfer modes, i.e., conduction, convection, radiation

• Understanding of thermal management and implementation techniques

• Proficiency in working with thermal analysis software packages, i.e., NASTRAN, ESTRAN, IDEAS, Thermal Desktop, Ansys, NX Space Systems Thermal, or any equivalent

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with thermal modelling, simulation, and validation through qualification tests, i.e., thermal vacuum, thermal cycling, etc

• Understanding of thermal design for electronic packages and avionics, including thermal properties of materials and space environment considerations

• Strong first principles thinking with a deep understanding of thermal design, analysis, implementation, and testing

• Proven experience in thermal design and analysis of payload/satellite subsystems

• Familiarity with the unique challenges of the space environment and a basic understanding of orbital mechanics

• Experience in testing your own thermal designs

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

Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru