RF Systems Design and Integration 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 RF systems and integration engineer to carry out systems design for usage on ground as well as space applications. The engineer shall define the overall requirements of the system based on top level specifications, define the specifications of individual components, identify suitable components meeting the specifications, carry out characterization and integration of the components and carry out testing of the system to ensure its meet the overall requirements.

• 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.

• Carry out an end-to-end systems design based on top level requirements. Define the system architecture and conduct system-level analysis and simulations to optimize system performance.

• Identify off the shelf components meeting the above system architecture and overall specifications.

• Perform RF testing, integration and validation to ensure compliance with specifications.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including hardware, software and systems engineers.

• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends in RF systems.

  Required Qualification

• 4-8 years of academic/research/industry experience with significant aptitude in RF systems design.

• Master’s degree in electronics engineering with specialization in RF Engineering, or a related field.

• Experience in RF systems, hardware testing, integration etc.

• Proficiency in RF simulation tools.

• Strong understanding of design principles including waveform design, signal processing, and antenna theory.

• Familiarity with RF testing equipment and methodologies, including spectrum analysers and network analysers

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.

•     Experience with software-defined RF systems.

•     Experience with RF testing and validation.

• 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.