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 highly skilled Senior Thermal engineer to join our dynamic team who is passionate about modelling, design, analysis of thermal environment for payload/satellite subsystems. In this role, the candidate leverages the expertise to design, develop and realize thermal control for payload/satellite subsystems.

Why Us

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

Responsibilities

Create thermal models of payload/satellite subsystems and carry out simulations by determining 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.
Work with hardware engineers to design and develop thermal control system and carryout extensive modelling of internal, external thermal environment for payload/satellite subsystems.
Generate test plans, procedure and execute tests to validate 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 candidate has experience in thermal analysis and modelling.
8+ 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, or any equivalent.
Experience with NX Space Systems Thermal is a must.

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/avionics, 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, analysis of payload/satellite subsystems.
Familiarity with the unique challenges of the space environment and 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 communications skills as well as organizational skills.
Travel occasionally as necessary.

Job Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru.

Senior Thermal Engineer