Digantara is a leading Space Surveillance and Intelligence company focused on orbital safety and sustainability. Its integrated sensing, processing, and analytics capabilities enable detection, tracking, identification, and monitoring of Resident Space Objects across orbital regimes.

Digantara is seeking an Adaptive Optics Design Engineer to design and realize advanced optical systems for ground-based space surveillance. The engineer will work on telescope optics, adaptive optics architectures, wavefront sensing and correction, atmospheric turbulence compensation, optical alignment, image-quality optimization, and electro-optical system integration.

Why Us

Work on advanced space-surveillance technology with significant ownership of engineering outcomes.
Develop advanced optics systems for Space Situational Awareness applications.

Responsibilities

Translate mission requirements into optical requirements.
Evaluate adaptive optics architectures for atmospheric turbulence compensation, and high- resolution imaging.
Derive adaptive optics actuator and wavefront sensor requirements.




Design relay optics involving telescopes, wavefront sensors, deformable mirrors, tip-tilt mirrors, and detectors etc.
Perform tolerance analysis, wavefront-error budgeting, and timing analysis.
Define optical alignment and testing methods required for the full system integration.
Work with controls and software teams on implementation of closed-loop AO control.
Support laboratory integration, characterization, root-cause analysis, performance improvement, on field testing, and telescope commissioning.
Document optical design layouts and performance details, interface specifications, tolerance budgets, BoMs, calibration procedures, and test plans.

Required Qualification

5-8 years of relevant industry or research experience in optical system design, adaptive optics, or related electro-optical systems.
Robust fundamentals in geometrical and physical optics, aberrations, wavefront sensing,

📌 Adaptive Optics Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Digantara
📍 Bengaluru