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
Senior Satellite Electrical Power System (EPS) engineer to conceptualize, architect the cubesat/microsat power system. You will leverage the experience in leading a team of multi-disciplinary engineers to design, develop and realize EPS for cubesat/microsat in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
Why Us?
- Competitive incentives, galvanizing workspace, blazing team—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 experience in leading the design, development of cubesat/microsat electrical power system with strong focus on miniaturization and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Architect the Cubesat/Microsat EPS and optimize the configuration to meet the electrical requirements.
- Carry out EPS subsystem level trade-off studies in collaboration with other subsystem, system engineers and select power system components.
- Lead the team of solar panel, battery and power electronics engineers towards successful realization of EPS.
- Analyse the power budget under various mission scenarios, study the energy balance for LEO satellites and maintain specifications, interface control documents.
- Lead the engineers to design power conditioning, power control, battery management circuits and analyse simulation, test results.
- Develop comprehensive test procedures for EPS at subsystem, satellite level and resolve the observations during subsystem/satellite integration and test phases.
Qualifications
- B.Tech/B.E in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or M.Tech/M.E or PhD degree in Electrical/Electronics/Power electronics.
- 6 to 10 years of demonstrated experience in design, development of EPS for LEO satellites.
- Strong expertise in power bus architecture, power conditioning, power control & distribution and battery management circuit design.
- Knowledge of cubesat/microsat solar panel and battery characterization with good understanding of interactions between power source and energy storage.
- Proficiency in PCB schematic design (OrCAD/Altium) and simulation tools PSPICE/LTspice.
- Experience in implementation of EMI control at the power source level.
- Knowledge of industry standards and best practices for cubesat/microsat EPS hardware development.
Preferred Skills
- Familiarity with EPS modelling & simulation in MATLAB/Simulink or python.
- Prior experience in successfully leading a multi-disciplinary team for design and development activities.
- Familiarity with solar panel/battery fabrication and assembly procedures.
- Good understanding of satellite subsystems and systems-first development approach.
- Familiarity with Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) to test satellite EPS.
- Knowledge on latest advancements in miniaturization of EPS for small satellites.
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.
Join Digantara and be part of dynamic team pushing the boundaries of satellite technology!
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