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Before, directly answering it. I will start by describing about different centres of ISRO and then I will comment on the kind of work an ECE student might do there. I work in VSSC, so I shall describe the work done by ECE students there in a more detailed manner.Broadly speaking the following is the structure of ISRO. As given, some of units (shown in brackets) are part of other centres for administrative purpose.VSSC (including IISU), LPSC (including IPRC) and SDSC are concentrating mainly on launch vehicles/Space transportation systems. ISAC (including LEOS), SAC (including DECU), MCF, ISTRAC, NRSC and NESAC works on satellites. IIST and IIRS are institutes of research and higher education. PRL, NARL are labs focusing on physics and atmospheric research respectively. SCL focuses on semi-conductor research. Antrix is the marketing arm of ISRO. If you have time go through Wikipedia page of each centre.Now a days, in all the centres majority of people do production work (repeatedly doing similar work for each mission). Still at the same time, in all centres development/research activities are also going on. The space budget is being increased each year and internationally also lot of exciting work is happening in aerospace sector. Private sectors participation in space is also increasing in India yearly. Internationally Human Space activities are going to increase in coming decade and I believe Govt. of India will approve Human Space Program in coming decade.Now, each centre will be considered and probable work which you can do there is also given1. Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre(VSSC)I work in VSSC and I am aware of work happening here the most. VSSC is the lead centre responsible for launch vehicles. All the launch vehicles and human space program projects are here. Also, activities from configuration design of launch vehicle to Electronic package design of launch vehicles happens here. Now, we will see what work an Electronics and Communication Engineer does here.There are people designing all sorts of electronic packages required in a launch vehicle which includes control electronics packages, various sensors and it’s interface units, packages used for base band communication, packages for radio frequency communication, antennas for different communication requirements, processors used in launch vehicles, packages required for testing, batteries and power modules for powering all these packages during flight etc… the list goes on and on. The design philosophy is different from the commercial package manufacturing and it has to qualify winder range of environmental specifications like temperature, vibration, shock etc. Here main focus is on reliability and safety due to high cost of launch vehicle and satellites.As an EC engineer your job can be designing or testing any of these kinds of packages. It can be making PCBs or writing FPGA codes.It can be related to designing large motors or designing a small inertial sensor or image processing and data compression algorithm development.Or may be selection of suitable MIL grade components from the market, procuring it, flight qualifying it. End to end everything you may need to handle including the paper work.There are even boring and mostly paper work jobs related to outsourced production of packages etc.You may be involved in various phases of testing. Or analysing test data and identifying failures in packages or components. Sometimes, it can be automation of certain tests. If you have read ‘The Martian’ novel, you will understand the importance of testing. Some of Launch vehicle testing teams have to travel to other centres occasionally (mainly LPSC, IPRC and SDSC).There will be cases where your job may be to support some mechanical engineer's work. May be you will have to work on miniaturized package development of an already existing package.If you are in launch vehicle project, your work will be coordinating work between various agencies, preparing schedules and getting work done before deadlines. There can be even some junk work like arranging food or vehicles if necessary.Sometimes your work can be even analysing data from a payload in Mangalyaan or developing payload for Chandrayaan-II (usually most payloads for satellites will be developed by SAC, LEOS, ISAC etc but for scientific mission at least one payload will be developed by Space Physics Laboratory in VSSC)Your work can be freezing Electrical configuration of next generation launch vehicles or accommodating changes in coming flights of PSLV or may be technology transfer to some industries. Here, I want add one more thing that each PSLV is electrically more or less the same (except at times when major architectural changes are undertaken), at the same time there will be always some changes for each flight.At present there is a renewed emphasis on developing a modern and advanced architecture for launch vehicles to reduce mass and turn around time. So coming five to ten years will decisive in this development. The last time major changes in avionics architecture happened more than 10 years ago (with work on it started around 2000). Usually incremental changes are only done due to reliability issues and schedule.Here, in ISRO many times the work can be multi-disciplinary and you may need to work as a team with people with different backgrounds. Also your job may not be properly defined (especially if it is a new work), you may have to do whatever is required to get the final product.You may also have to parallelly undertake development work as well as operational work in some divisions.So depending on the division you are posted you can do any kind of work. If you join with B.Tech you can't demand for any division. Atleast an M.Tech or PhD is required if you wish to work in some particular field. Sometimes you may not like work and can change your division. Or mostly, you may not get transfer to any other division and you need to learn to love the job you got (I even know someone who joined with B.Tech in ECE and then due to his interest in Physics took transfer to Space Physics Lab here in VSSC. Later took Ph.D in physics and contributed immensely in MENCA payload of Mangalyaan).2. Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre(LPSC)LPSC is engaged in development of liquid and cryogenic propulsion stages (lately semi-cryo also) for launch vehicles and auxiliary propulsion systems for both launch vehicles and satellites. Along with IPRC, they are responsible for designing, developing, assembling and testing liquid engines.Here, the number of ECE students are less and their work is mainly instrumentation and control of various test facilities or designing certain packages for flight.3. Satish Dhawan Space Centre(SDSC)This is in Sreeharikotta and all the Rockets except few small sounding rockets are launched from here. There are mainly test facilities and launch pad related infrastructure.Here, again an EC engineer may be providing instrumentation support or process control and automation. There is also lot of work related to infrastructure development and maintenance. Then there are Radars and antennas for various purposes from tracking Rockets after launch to acquiring health parameters. So you may be operator or designer of these Radars and antennas. At present SDSC does not directly test avionics systems of launch vehicles (people from VSSC does this), but slowly some of the work will be transferred to engineers here.4. ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC)ISAC is the leading centre of ISRO for design, development, fabrication and testing of all Indian made satellites. All the Satellite projects are managed from here.So work will be similar to VSSC but you will work on satellites instead of launch vehicles. Technology changes in Satellite industry are faster than in launch vehicles so I believe the work here may be more technical depending upon where is you are posted. Here again, large number of the people will be doing operational and testing work.5. Space Applications Centre (SAC)SAC is one of the major centres of ISRO that is engaged in the research, development and demonstration of applications of space technology (in short making satellite payloads) in the field of telecommunications, remote sensing, meteorology and satellite navigation. This includes research and development of onboard systems, ground systems and end user equipment hardware and software. Most of the satellite payloads are also developed here. Work here will be more technical compared to VSSC, LPSC, SDSC or ISAC.6. Master Control Facility (MCF)MCF is responsible for monitoring and controlling geostationary and geosynchronous satellites launched by ISRO. There are mainly two types of work here.Here again you can expect communication system, antenna design and it’s operation work. Also limited satellite related work is taken up.Then the other work is literally being in the driver seat of a Geostationary satellite. This team work 24/7, in three 8 hour shifts. The work will be uploading commands for satellite deployment after launch and in-orbit corrections.7. ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC)ISTRAC is responsible for acquiring health parameters, tracking and commanding of LEO satellites and other missions like Magalyaan. The Launch vehicle parameters are also acquired and processed from here (as well as in SDSC, but ISTRAC is responsible for that). The work is similar to that of MCF.8. National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC)NRSC is responsible for acquisition, processing, supply of aerial and satellite remote sensing data and continuously exploring the practical uses of remote sensing technology for multilevel applications (like disaster warning and earth observation). Expect your work to be software oriented. The work will be more or less image processing, data archiving and mathematical.9. North-Eastern Space Applications Centre (NE-SAC)This centre mainly focuses on applying space technologies for the development of North Eastern states of India.10. Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) and National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL)These are the place you want to go if you are interested in astronomy and astrophysics, atmospheric sciences and aeronomy, Earth sciences, Solar System studies and theoretical physics. The number of EC engineers is limited and are as operators of various facilities and equipments for data collection like Lidars, observatories etc. But, if you are interested in above fields you can eventually take a PhD in allied fields and contribute in a better manner.11. Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL)The aim of the lab includes research and development in the field of semiconductor technology. Here you will find most of the people have PhD and may be the best place in ISRO for EC engineers interested in VLSI to work. Lot of research works on Semi-conductor fabrication processes, MEMS, ASICs etc. It is at present having 80nm fabrication facility and efforts to upgrade to 15nm is going on. SCL not only works for ISRO, but also for other organisations like DRDO.12. AntrixThey are responsible for all marketing the space technologies to customers in India and abroad including launch services, distribution of remote sensing data, allocating satellite transponders for DTH etc. Freshers are seldom posted here, and work is less technical and more managerial. Most people have MBA here. They usually invites resumes from people inside ISRO who are interested to work there and shortlists people based their profile.Hope the answer helped you and looking forward in meeting you in ISRO.

I spent my career in the Canadian foreign service. I travelled a lot but it sure wasn't for pleasure. You go some place that they send you and then you have to stay there, sometimes for years, processing visa applications.To the extent I learned anything, I was left with some views about the meaning of reality.Don't Panic, It's Just LifeHere you are, arriving in a national capital, in the developing world. You are posted there for three years. The embassy driver picks you up at the airport and you start the journey into town. You have jet lag. You are tired. You are 10,000 kilometres from home. You are anxious about your fate. And, when you look out the embassy car window, you may have the initial feeling that you have landed in hell. It's really, really, really poor. It's 40 C. (105 F.) with maximum humidity. The billboards sell cigarettes (Canadian gasp!) and the advertisements are in some weird alphabet you can't read. The road is lined with scrawny palm trees. If your new home is not so terribly democratic there are military checkpoints here and there, soldiers waiving submachine guns around rather carelessly.Then that feeling, arises, you ask G-d, why did he do this to you? You beg him, if this is a nightmare, please, please let me wake up.Before you get completely hysterical and tell the embassy driver to take you right back to the airport, you need to get a grip on yourself. It's a job. You aren't rich and you are going to make a lot of tax free money working overseas. Once you are inside the Embassy, processing your visas, you are in just another Government of Canada bureaucratic office, doing your civil service thing. The Embassy is going to allocate you “staff quarters”, nicely furnished, and frankly way better than the apartment you could have afforded in Ottawa. You have the diplomatic community so if you want you can hang out with other people who are just as disoriented as you are. I don't drink but diplomats get to buy their liquor tax free. That bottle of Smirnoff in the diplomatic store isn't going to cost you much more than a two-litre diet coke back home. Once your car finally arrives from back home (Unless you are buying a tax free BMW from the local diplomatic dealer) you will get to prance around with diplomatic licence plates. And, scrawny palm trees means no winter.Then you ask yourself, is life always hard, and you know, yes it is. Is your current situation existentially worse than, for example, repairing diesel locomotives outdoors in mid-January, in a railyard just outside of Saskatoon?Watch CNN, Do Not Be on CNNMy ex-wife, my infant son, and I were living in a very nice staff quarters, in a gated residential village in Makati, the business district of Metro Manila.Most Filipinos I met were really nice people. However the Philippines occasionally has political stability issues. A particular manifestation of this problem was that a group of rebel soldiers decided to hold a coup attempt, in Makati, using our pleasant little village as a no mans' land, to shoot across.Tracer bullets look pretty at night. Mortar shells make a type of fireworks. However there were so many bullets whizzing overhead that my ex-wife had to come in from hanging up the wash.The Canadian Embassy had organized an evacuation convoy, most of the Canadian embassy staff living in another residential village some distance away. The Embassy had made group reservations at a nice hotel, on the seashore promenade, in Manila proper. However we were the only Canadians in our village. We got in the car, dodged the gunfire and made our own way down to the hotel. We actually got there first and got a nice room.However the rest of the embassy gang eventually got to the hotel and, also, a thousand or so other, kind of stressed, people.Then CNN showed up. People started giving CNN various shrieky interviews. It was painfully obvious that some of them had previously seen catastrophic films about the Third World, and were outright plagiarizing. My ex-wife had put the baby in the stroller and we had gone downstairs to the front of the hotel, to get some fresh, gunpowder-scented air. CNN wanted to film my kid, looking blase and unimpressed. However my ex-wife was a real party-poop and told CNN a flat no. Being British she had a BBC-based disdain for CNN. Also, she was concerned that her parents in Liverpool, seeing our baby doing his macho-Sylvester Stallone thing, might feel concerned. OK, I guess she had a point.So what life-lesson did I learn from this Wild West shoot-up in the Western Pacific? Watch CNN. Do not be on CNN. If you are appearing on CNN with regard to anything other than a major sports event or to promote your tell-all book about silliness at the White House, you are doing something very, very wrong. You need to stop, immediately, ask yourself how you got there, admit you have made a dreadful mistake and do something else.If you want to learn about military coup attempts and generalized pandemonium in the Third World, watch a movie on Cable TV at home in Winnipeg. Then, have a cup of tea, shovel some snow and go to bed. That's absolutely as much information as you need. In the real-life situation the people are nowhere near as attractive as on cable and are very highly unlikely to be thinking about having sex with you.Ironically, a few weeks earlier, Chuck Norris had been using our residential village as a movie set for a movie about, guess what, military violence in the Third World. Thank you very much Chuck, you are a great role model.Money Talks and Everything Else WalksWas it Cyndi Lauper who said that money changes everything? A very smart woman.I have been to England, I have been to Paris, I have been to Moscow, I have been to Detroit and Seattle. I have learned the prime rule of life everywhere, money talks and bull---t walks. Call it Pounds, call it Euros, call it Rubles, call it Greenbacks, but it's all the same.One arrives in a certain country that one has never seen before with certain expectations, like it's really religious. Well yes, but religion doesn't pay your bills (unless you are a person of the cloth or a TV evangelist) And no, neither will anarchism, socialism or some type of quasi religion.In every country I have been to, the prevailing belief system has had to wrap itself around money. If I can quote another very wise American lady, “Money makes the world go round, it makes a happy sound.” Even terrorists need to make some dough, in fact, a lot of it, because explosives cost.And with that money need, cynicism creeps in. People who are well-fixed and secure give everybody else lectures about morality. Then they are off to the gambling casinos of London, England, while you are praying for money to feed your kids.I am not saying that some people in any country are not charitable, caring and kind. However, being charitable costs money. The professional fund raiser and their sizable cut, is right behind.You Can Take the Boy Out of Manitoba But You Can't Take Manitoba Out of the BoyThere I was, a young man, living the diplomatic life in London, England, in the 1980's. Glamorous, eh!After the first week, not so much. You had to eat. A supermarket in London is only marginally different from one in suburban Winnipeg. Rely on fish and chips for nutrition and you are going to put on a lot of blubber.You were not one bit more handsome than the day you left Manitoba. The nightclubs of London featured generous supplies of posers, and doubtless still do, but you don't have what it takes to pose. It is just as hard to scratch that itch as it was in Winnipeg, or maybe worse. To top it off, in all of London, there is hardly one secluded outdoor place to pee, when the damp chill is messing with your bladder and you need immediate relief.You spend eight hours of every weekday in an office. You were working in an office back home. There is that pile of visa applications. It's still just you, processing applications, in an office.Add on the sore feet from walking. Add on a toothache and funny feelings in your prostate gland. Add on a boss from hell.This was my London of the 1980's. Like anywhere else, anytime, glamour isn't a substitute for a positive attitude. Lose it and London can feel like 1984. Except the Spice Girls were watching you, instead of Big Brother.Winnipeg is ParadiseAs Judy Garland said, “there is no place like home”.My Winnipeg does not have a high status reputation in Canada. I used to have that attitude. Winnipeg was grubby, rundown, and for Canada, had a serious crime rate. However some of the stay in Winnipegers bit the bullet. Winnipeg still needs work but it is better than it used to be.So, here's me, the world traveller. I have seen this, that and the other thing. Since I got sent off to work in places that were a lot less than the Garden of Eden, I had to face certain life realities. The world is not an easy place, partly because the human race messes up so much, messing with each other and Mother Nature, who is seriously starting to push back.There are so many poor places. There are so many badly polluted ones. There are so many, many places where no one has any idea of progress or a morally repugnant elite will not allow it. There are so many places where the police are thugs, the military brutalize their own people and everybody is looking for an excuse to hate everybody.And, my Winnipeg. There it is, free medical care and professional social services. The Winnipeg Police Service will read you your rights. There's employment insurance. There's multiculturalism and human rights. R20 insulation addresses Winnipeg's super-chill issues. A block heater and a battery blanket can smooth out your “will the car start” anxiety. Winnipeg isn't huge. Commuting is not a prison.Basically, Winnipeg is a situation where a well-functioning snow blower will address some of the most significant problems in your life.I know there are some other Winnipegs are out there, where life is both bearable and improvable and life is not a load of fear. However, my travels around the world have taught me that, what I took for granted, is actually precious and rare.Martin Levine

Probably not on your current H-1B, but there are other options.The two main routes are either immigrant or nonimmigrant visas.Nonimmigrant VisasForeign entrepreneurs commonly obtain H-1Bs, because these nonimmigrant visas are generally available to a company’s employees and pretty straightforward. The downside is that there’s a cap of 65,000 for regular H1Bs, and a cap of 20,000 for Masters Degree H1Bs - and the competition is intense. They also expire after six years and require a minimum one year leave outside the US after the 6-year expiration. There are some exceptions, but they only offer extensions of between one and three years.Your current H1B work-authorization is limited to employment with your sponsoring employer. If you’re dismissed or quit your position with the sponsoring employer, you’re required to apply for alternative nonimmigrant status, secure employment with another employer, or leave the U.S. If you find employment with a different employer, then a new application must be filed and your visa status modified to reflect the reclassification. However, this is not going to help you necessarily start a new business in the US.Other nonimmigrant visas that might help you include an F-1/OPT (Optional Practical Training) visa, which is available to students who meet certain reqs. You can learn more about those from my recent post here on Quora. If you don’t qualify as a student, you could be eligible for a B-1 Business Visitor visa. An E-2 Treaty Investor visa is available to individuals from treaty countries, which may or may not help you.The O-1A Extraordinary Ability and Achievement visa has been effective for many entrepreneurs. This nonimmigrant visa is available to individuals who meet the legal definition of “exceptional abilities” in the arts, sciences, education, business or athletics. Here’s the breakdown on O1s:O-1A: Individuals with extraordinary ability in the sciences, education, business, or athletics (excluding the arts, motion pictures or television industry).O-1B: Individuals with an extraordinary ability in the arts or extraordinary achievement in motion picture or television industry.O-2: Individuals who will accompany an O-1 artist or athlete to assist in a specific event or performance.O-3: Individuals who are the spouse or children of O-1’s and O-2’sImmigrant visasThese are typically EB-1, EB-2 or EB-5 visas.EB-1 Extraordinary Ability VisaAn EB-1 visa is used to obtain employment-based permanent residency. It’s generally intended for “priority workers” who are identified as foreign workers with “extraordinary abilities.” This classification usually consists of senior executives and managers who are transferred to the U.S. and those who qualify as “outstanding professors or researchers.”EB-2 Advanced Degree Professional and Exceptional Ability Immigrant VisasThese visas generally require proof of a job offer from an employer and a DOL labor certification. EB-2 visas occasionally are granted to individuals who are seeking to waive the DOL labor certification. Specifically, subsection (C) does not require an applicant to have an employer. An advanced degree (masters and higher) or an exceptional ability in your field are required in addition to showing that the defined exceptional ability is in the national interest of the United States.EB-5 Immigrant Investor VisaThis visa requires at least a $1 million dollar investment ($950,000 dollars if the business or investment is located in a rural area). This program allows entrepreneurs, their spouses, and unmarried children under the age of 21 to apply for a green card (i.e., permanent residence) if they meet the following requirements:Make the necessary investment in a commercial enterprise within the U.S.; andPlan to create or preserve ten permanent full-time jobs for qualified U.S. workers.The USCIS has more information here for foreign entrepreneurs.Engaging an immigration attorney is strongly recommended since the procedures for obtaining any of these visas are pretty complicated. Please feel free to PM me directly or check out LawTrades for more information on how to start a small business in the U.S. as a non-citizen. I hope this helps!