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How Allen Control Systems hires

Truth index
D 40/100
Ghost roles
100%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Allen Control Systems scores D on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 61 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 100% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Allen Control Systems is a defense technology company based in Austin, Texas, that develops autonomous weapon stations for countering small drones and loitering munitions on land and at sea. Its Bullfrog stations carry M240 and M2 machine guns and use passive machine-vision drone detection with autonomous fire control; its leaders previously co-founded Bbot, acquired by DoorDash, and Omnivore, acquired by Olo. It hires electrical, embedded software, controls, computer vision and test engineers, drone operators, assembly technicians and production planners, and also lists an office in Alexandria, Virginia.

News

Press release businesswire 3 months ago
Allen Control Systems Selected for U.S. Marine Corps Ground Based Air Defense Program
Allen Control Systems (ACS) today announced that the U.S. Marine Corps has selected its Bullfrog autonomous weapon system under the service's Ground Based A...
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News Fox Business 4 months ago
Trump praises anti-drone technology as defense startup lands $200M Fox Business Video
Allen Control Systems CEO Mike Wior joins 'Mornings with Maria' to discuss the company's AI-powered counter-drone technology, recent military deployments and plans to rapidly scale production following a $200 million funding round.
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Award The Defense Post 8 months ago
US Army Funds ACS Bullfrog Autonomous Overwatch With $2M Award
The US Army has named Allen Control Systems' autonomous overwatch system Bullfrog a winner of its xTechOverwatch competition.
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News The Defense Post 10 months ago
Bullfrog Becomes Drone-Hunting Beast With New 'Eye' Upgrade
SearchCam is a visual detection system that tracks small drones, integrates with existing command networks, and scales from single-vehicle defense to layered protection.
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News Default 10 months ago
US Army to test C-UAS auto turret for combat vehicles
The US Army has awarded a contract to integrate the M240 configuration of the Allen Control Systems (ACS) Bullfrog autonomous turret for at least two combat vehicles, a...
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News GQ 10 months ago
Inside the Texas Race to Build the Next Great American Weapon
If you want to start a company and get rich today, you don't have to move to San Francisco or New York. You can move to Austin and start a hard-tech or defense company.
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Award businesswire 1 year ago
Allen Control Systems Awarded Contract With Maritime U.S. Special Operations Forces Unit
Allen Control Systems (ACS), a leader in autonomous precision robotics, today announced it has been awarded a contract in collaboration with defense contract...
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Allen Control Systems over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
44
Postings analysed
41
Stack modernity
68/100
Languages
Python7%
Bash5%
C++2%
SQL2%
Frameworks & libraries
CUDA5%
PyTorch2%
Unreal Engine2%
Cloud & platforms
Linux10%
AWS7%
Ubuntu7%
Debian5%
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Full Allen Control Systems tech stack 44 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
38/100
Slowing
Open positions
61
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
25% ▼
Field & Service
20% ▼
Hardware
11% ▼
Administrative
7% ▼
Operations
7% ▼
Defense
7% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added ANSYS to stack Oct 2026
Added Minitab to stack Oct 2026
Added FMEA to stack Oct 2026
Added MIL-STD-882 to stack Oct 2026
Added Statistical Process Control to stack Oct 2026
Added GD&T to stack Oct 2026
Added MIL-STD-810 to stack Oct 2026
Added MIL-STD-461 to stack Oct 2026
Added CATIA to stack Oct 2026
Added AS9100 to stack Oct 2026
Added Fusion 360 to stack Oct 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Austin
Austin United States
HQ
Contact us
60 open roles 28% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service, Hardware
510 St. Elmo Rd. Ste A-1, Austin, TX 78745
opened 1970 seen since Oct 2024 company site, careers board, job postings

Jobs

≈ $42k – $73k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · 2+ years exp · Austin
Computer Vision
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≈ $45k – $103k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · 2+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Austin
C++
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Game Dev
Unreal Engine
Robotics
AirSim
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≈ $59k – $107k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · 2+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Austin
Computer Vision
SpaceTech
AS9100
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≈ $42k – $73k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · 2+ years exp · Austin
Computer Vision
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≈ $140k – $287k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · 7+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Austin
Computer Vision
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≈ $71k – $149k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · 2+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Austin
Computer Vision
Design
SolidWorks
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≈ $96k – $180k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Austin
Computer Vision
Design
SolidWorks
SpaceTech
CATIA
Defense
MIL-STD-810
MIL-STD-461
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≈ $101k – $227k per year (Estimated) · In office · 2+ years exp · Austin
MinIO
AI/ML
DVC
MLFlow
Quantization
Computer Vision
ONNX
TensorRT
Kubeflow
CUDA
Machine Learning
DevOps
Debian
Prometheus
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Ubuntu
Grafana
Platform Engineering
Linux
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≈ $90k – $178k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · Nationals only · 8+ years exp · Austin
Computer Vision
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≈ $74k – $134k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · Nationals only · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Austin
Computer Vision
Chips/EDA
Statistical Process Control
SpaceTech
AS9100
GD&T
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≈ $74k – $136k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · 4+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Austin
Computer Vision
Chips/EDA
Statistical Process Control
SpaceTech
GD&T
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≈ $74k – $136k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · 4+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Austin
Computer Vision
Chips/EDA
Statistical Process Control
SpaceTech
GD&T
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Financials

Total raised
$242M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount Valuation
Series B 2026 $200M $2.2B Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $30M — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $12M — Details