SAC is a major centre of ISRO and a premier research and development institute of the country. Ever since it came in existence it has been following the vision to harness space technology for national development, while pursuing space science research and planetary explorations. The centre offers career opportunities in diverse fields of electronics and communications, navigation technologies, remote sensing, microwave, software engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, and other administrative posts. SAC provides an attractive blend of state-of-art facilities and a free and open work culture for carrying out challenging research and development.

As per rules, SAC offers social security benefits and other variety of professional benefits like organizational incentive, group incentive, variable increments and professional update allowance. In terms of social security benefits, it offers coverage under distinct schemes like new pension scheme, group insurance scheme, encashment of leaves etc. The centre encourages and supports its employees for higher studies.