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 detail‑oriented Junior Hardware Test Engineer to own board bring-

up, hardware qualification and production test execution for satellite payload electronics. The candidate is also responsible to develop Python-based test automation and maintaining lab/GSE readiness to improve test coverage, robustness, and production workflows.

Ideal Candidate Someone with 1 to 3 years of hands-on experience in end-to-end hardware testing and automation for Satellite payload/bus/launch vehicle avionics or high-reliability embedded systems.

Responsibilities

- Carryout acceptance and qualification testing campaigns for satellite payload

electronics and generate test reports, qualification documents, and non-conformance reports.
- Develop and maintain Python-based automated test sequences and data-logging

pipelines for board bring-up, functional, regression, and environmental tests.
- Collaborate with systems, hardware and firmware design teams to define integrated

test sequences, checklists, automation, and lab workflows and capture lessons learned, and drive continuous improvements to procedures.
- Maintain electronics lab and Ground Support Equipment infrastructure (equipment

configuration, calibration schedules, cabling, ESD-secure workstations)



to ensure continuous readiness for qualification and production.
- Perform basic PCB assembly, soldering, rework, and test fixture builds to support

prototyping and board-level repairs.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s/Master's degree in Electronics /Electrical/Instrumentation, or a relevant technical discipline.
- 1 to 3 years(maximum) of hands-on experience in electronics hardware testing,

validation, or production in satellite/launch vehicle avionics, or other high-reliability domains preferred.
- Proficiency in using lab equipment i.e., oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic

loads, and digital multimeters for board bring-up, debug and functional testing.
- Understanding of data communication protocols SPI, I2C, UART, RS422/485,

LVDS, Camera link and Gigabit Ethernet.
- Experience in executing structured test plans and documenting results with strong

traceability and attention to detail to identify the anomalies.
- Working proficiency in Python for test automation and data handling.
- Hands-on soldering and rework skills including through-hole and surface-mount

components for prototyping, repair, and test fixture assembly.

Preferred Skills

- Experience in end-to-end life cycle of Satellite payload/bus subsystem testing campaign

is a significant plus.
- Certification in IPC-A-610/IPC J-STD-001/IPC-7711/7721 is an advantage.
- Experience with thermal vaccum/thermal cycling and environmental tests on the

hardware.
- Familiarity with version control (Git) and basic configuration management for test

scripts and setups.
- Familiarity with the cleanroom protocols and handling optical payload is an added

advantage.

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.

📌 Junior Hardware Test Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Digantara
📍 Bengaluru