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 highly skilled Senior Thermal engineer to join our dynamic team who is passionate about modelling, design, analysis of thermal environment for payload/satellite subsystems. In this role, the candidate leverages the expertise to design, develop and realize thermal control for payload/satellite subsystems.

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 professional experience in design, analysis and implementation of thermal control systems for satellites operating Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

Responsibilities:





- Create thermal models of payload/satellite subsystems and carry out simulations by determining appropriate boundary conditions.

- Select and implement active/passive thermal components to achieve optimal thermal performance in LEO.

- Analyse thermal interfaces, heat sinks for electronic packages/avionics and develop appropriate thermal control schemes.

- Generate thermal control system requirements in collaboration with system, mission, structures and avionics engineers and perform design trade-off studies.

- Work with hardware engineers to design and develop thermal control system and carryout extensive modelling of internal, external thermal environment for payload/satellite subsystems.

- Generate test plans, procedure and execute tests to validate thermal performance of subsystems.

Required Qualifications:

- B.Tech/B.E, M.Tech/M.E or PhD in Mechanical/ Thermal/ Aerospace Engineering.Degrees in physics, materials science, or electrical engineering or any branches (with a focus on thermal management) can also be relevant if the candidate has experience in thermal analysis and modelling.

- 8+ years of professional experience in thermal design and analysis of complex engineering systems.

- Strong understanding of different heat transfer modes i.e., conduction, convection, radiation.





- Understanding of thermal management and implementation techniques.

- Proficiency in working with thermal analysis software packages i.e., NASTRAN, ESTRAN, IDEAS, Thermal Desktop, Ansys, or any equivalent.

- Experience with NX Space Systems Thermal is a must.

Preferred Skills:

- Experience with thermal modelling, simulation, and validation through qualification tests i.e., thermal vacuum, thermal cycling, etc.

- Understanding of thermal design for electronic packages/avionics, thermal properties of materials and space environment considerations.

Solid first principles thinking with a deep understanding of thermal design, analysis, implementation and testing.

- Proven experience in thermal design, analysis of payload/satellite subsystems.

- Familiarity with the unique challenges of the space environment and basic understanding of orbital mechanics.

- Experience in testing your own thermal designs.

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.

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📌 Senior Thermal Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Digantara
📍 Bengaluru