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 talented and experienced Image Processing Engineer – Star Tracker for developing cutting edge data processing algorithms by combining star catalogues, attitude determination, and astrometric calibration analysis with robust verification techniques.

Why Us?

Competitive incentives, galvanizing workspace, blazing team, frequent outings - pretty much everything you have heard about a start-up, and you get to work on space technology.

Hustle in a well-funded start-up, allowing you to take charge of your responsibilities and create your moonshot.

Ideal Candidate:

Someone with prior expertise to handle and organize large database, query techniques and image processing algorithms for ground-based telescope operations.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, understand, and enhance existing astrometry pipeline. Contribute to maintenance and debugging failures in the pipeline during data generation.

• Improve and optimize algorithms for star matching, identification, and attitude determination.

• Improve current modules for star extraction and develop new modules for detection of faint stars using classical image processing.

• Develop modules for validation of astrometry and photometry calibrations.

• Monitor real-time observations from ground-based telescope systems and troubleshoot backend processing.

• Calibrate camera payloads on ground and on-orbit to characterize distortion.

• Evaluate and document algorithm performance metrics, maintain detailed reports, and propose improvements for future iterations.

• Collaborate closely with embedded engineers to develop and deploy flight-ready algorithms for satellite onboard processing systems.

Required Qualification

• Bachelor's or master's degree in electronics, computer science, astronomy or any relevant field.

• 2+ years of research or industry experience with significant aptitude in the astronomical image processing algorithms, and computer vision.

• Proficiency in high level programming language like Python and familiar to implement Object Oriented Programming (OOP) Structures.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.

Preferred Skills

• Hands-on Experience with organizing large database and query techniques.

• Familiarity with star trackers and ADCS algorithms.

• Understanding of Bayesian methods and probabilistic models for optimal orientation estimation in astronomical images.

• Basic understanding on fundamental principles of Computer vision and familiarity with OpenCV.

• Proficiency in Astropy, Scikit-learn, Scipy, and other relevant image processing libraries. Expertise in managing git repository is an advantage.

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 communications skills as well as organizational skills.

• Travel occasionally as necessary.

Job Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru

Work Type: Work from Office.