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digantara.co.in
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About Job
Digantara is redefining space safety and sustainability. As a leader in Space Surveillance and Intelligence, we deliver real-time, actionable insights to ensure secure and sustainable use of Earth’s orbits. Our cutting-edge platform integrates advanced space-based detection, tracking, and monitoring to provide unparalleled domain awareness across all orbital regimes. At the cutting edge of this technology, Digantara is building hardware and mission-critical software. But behind every successful team is an invisible engine that keeps projects moving with clarity, speed, and precision. Deployment of SSA sensors across various locations and orbital regimes is crucial for obtaining a comprehensive understanding of the near-Earth environment. The mission design engineer will provide expertise in developing and improving software modules for the design, simulation, and operational planning of this sensor infrastructure.
Why Us?
- Be part of a collaborative and innovative environment where your ideas and skills make a real difference to the entire space realm.
- Push the boundaries with hands-on experience, greater responsibilities, and rapid career advancement.
- Competitive incentives, a galvanizing workspace, and a blazing team—pretty much everything you have heard about a startup.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain in-house mission design software tools for SSA infrastructure analysis & simulation.
- Continuously upgrade and optimize software programs to add simulation capabilities and enhance computational performance.
- Support decision-making for the design of space-based and ground-based missions backed by simulation-based results.
- Run sensitivity analyses to understand how design assumptions and asset failures affect overall system performance.
- Develop delta-V budgets for orbit insertion, station-keeping, phasing, and end-of-life disposal.
- Develop preliminary link budgets for space-to-ground and ground-station network data downlink feasibility.
- Formulate mission operation plans and CONOPS for optimal utilization of the SSA infrastructure.
Create, test, and deploy software scripts for planning and scheduling of sensor operation and management.
- Interface with software and operations teams for successful deployment, testing, and operations of mission software infrastructure.
- Participate in design reviews and technical presentations to stakeholders.
Skills & Qualification
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in astrodynamics, aerospace, mathematics, physics, software, or a relevant discipline.
- 2+years pf experience and need a strong development skills in Python, including computational optimization techniques like NumPy, multithreading, multiprocessing, and GPU acceleration.
- Experience with version control systems like Git.
- Knowledge of orbital mechanics.
- Experience with mission design tools such as STK, FreeFlyer, Orekit, Basilisk or GMAT.
- Good understanding of optimization and scheduling algorithms.
Preferred Qualities
- Advanced proficiency in heuristic scheduling algorithms. General Requirement
- Exposure to software development, API integrations, cloud computing (AWS), Database management, containerization (Docker), open-source framework(streamlit) etc.
General Requirement
- 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.
Job Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru
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