Optical Engineer AIT

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 AIT who will be responsible for the precise assembly, alignment, testing, and inspection of optical lenses, lens barrels, optical subsystems, and complete electro-optical payloads. The role requires high attention to detail, strong hands-on skills, and the ability to work in a cleanroom and laboratory environment to support prototype and production builds.

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 assembly, alignment and testing of electro-optical payloads or ground telescopes for high resolution astronomy.

Responsibilities:

• Assemble optical lenses, mirrors, filters and mechanical fixtures & mounts as per optical drawings and work instructions.

• Apply adhesives, spacers, shims, and alignment features following process specifications.

• Integrate optical assemblies into opto-mechanical structures, barrels, or sensor modules.

• Perform precision alignment using collimators and optical benches.

• Perform torque-controlled fastener tightening to avoid stress on lenses and mirrors.

• Conduct optical tests such as MTF, centration, focus accuracy, collimation, bore sighting, stray light checks.

• Verify compliance with specifications including centration error, air gaps, wavefront error, and surface quality.

• Follow strict contamination control procedures when handling coated optics.

• Document test results, maintain build reports, and generate inspection records

Required Qualification:

• Diploma / Bachelor’s degree in Optics, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Electronics, or any related field.

• 1 to 15 years of industry experience in the optical systems assembly, alignment and testing.(Role will be assigned according to years of experience)

• Experience with optical benches, interferometers, collimators and MTF stations

Preferred Skills:

• Understanding of optical components: Lenses, Filters, Mirrors, Apertures.

• Experience assembling optical systems with micron-level precision.

• Knowledge of adhesive curing, alignment techniques, and optical handling.

• Ability to read optical and mechanical drawings.

• Familiarity with metrology tools: Interferometer, Collimator, Profilometer.

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 communication skills, as well as organizational skills

• Travel occasionally as necessary

Job Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru.