Optical Engineer

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 an Optical Engineer to design and develop cutting-edge optical systems for its ground—and space-based telescopes. The engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and testing advanced ground- and space-based telescopes that suit the Space Surveillance 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 expertise in designing satellite electro-optical payloads or ground telescopes.

Responsibilities:

• Design a suite of optical systems of various apertures and focal lengths to satisfy the quality and performance metrics for Space Situational Awareness (SSA)
• Develop dedicated specifications set and optical system architecture suitable for space-based and ground-based telescopes targeting SSA applications
• Validate and optimize the designs with optical simulations using ZEMAX/Code V or other relevant software and carry out supplementary analysis using MATLAB/Python
• Perform tolerance analysis and Monte Carlo simulations and optimize designs for manufacturability and cost-effectiveness
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (systems, mechanical, and electronics) to integrate optical systems into larger products
• Troubleshoot and resolve optical system issues during development and production
• Document optical system designs, analyses, and test results thoroughly throughout the development lifecycle

Required Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, or PhD in optics/physics/astronomy or any relevant field

  
  

• 5 to 7 years of industry experience or significant aptitude in the optical systems design, simulations, and testing

  
  

• Demonstrated experience in designing optical systems & telescope designs

  
  

• In-depth knowledge of light propagation methods, optical systems, stray light analysis, optical imaging concepts

  
  

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

  
  

Preferred Skills 

• Experience building space-based or ground-based telescopes for high-resolution Astronomy will be a big plus
• Stay up to date with the latest advancements in optical technology and fabrication
• Proficiency in working in optical laboratory along with experience in testing and calibration of telescopes
• Familiarity with Opto-Mechanical design
• Knowledge of the standards for satellite payload hardware is an advantage

Job Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru

Work Type: WFO with alternate Saturdays