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 Director of Payload Electronics to lead the design and development of satellite payload electronics and scale a high-performance team. The role involves end-to-end development of payload electronics for image acquisition and edge processing, supporting Space Situational Awareness (SSA) application.
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 proven expertise in end-to-end design and development of satellite payload electronics/ground-based imaging systems/electronic systems for high-reliability applications.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with satellite electrical, mechanical and systems engineers to translate the system requirements into specifications of payload electronics.
- Architect and deliver high-performance payload electronics enabling reliable on-orbit image acquisition and edge processing.
- Review the hardware requirements, oversee schematic and PCB layout design activities and thermal management.
- Lead a team of FPGA and embedded software engineers to generate RTL/Firmware design requirements, architecture and verification plans.
- Review the verification and validation, board level test results throughout the development lifecycle.
- Plan and execute the hardware realization and interact with vendors.
Required Qualifications- B.Tech/B.E in Electronics Engineering or M.Tech/M.E or PhD degree Microelectronics/Embedded systems/Electronics systems/VLSI.
- 8+ years of demonstrated experience in end-to-end design and development of complex electronics systems/satellite payload electronics/ground-based imaging systems built around high-speed FPGA/SoC.
- Proven experience delivering end-to-end electronics hardware from concept to deployment and strong experience with high-speed interfaces (LVDS, DDR, SerDes, etc.)
- Strong hands-on experience in VHDL/Embedded C/C++ with expertise in FPGA/SoC design flow using Vivado/Libero EDA tools.
- Strong expertise in troubleshooting hardware and firmware observations during development lifecycle.
- Experience in working with FPGA/SoC development kits and electronic test equipment.
Preferred Skills - Experience in developing high reliable imaging systems for satellite payloads is a significant plus.
- Knowledge of the latest advancements in FPGA/SoC based satellite payload electronics development.
- Familiarity with digital image processing techniques.
- Knowledge of algorithm implementation in MATLAB/Python.
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.
