CDDS
Defense AI
2open roles
Growinghiring pace, 55 of 100
50+team · employees, estimated range
2024founded
Overview
The CDDS interceptor is an autonomous, kinetic counter drone designed to neutralize Group 1 and Group 2 Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) threats with speed and precision.
Funding and backers
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
5
+4 posted in 30 days
Momentum
42/100
hiring for its size, a new city
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
2024
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 11%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
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Jobs
≈ $114k – $197k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Master's Degree · Zurich
Python
Linux
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In office · Full-Time · Master's Degree · Zurich
Python
C++
ArduPilot
Chips/EDA
KiCad
Eagle
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
55/100
Growing
Open positions
5
1 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
39 days
faster than 34% of the market
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.
DevOps
25% ▼
Management
25% ▲
Robotics
17% ▼
Industrial Engineering
17% ▼
Aerospace
17% ▲
Actively hiring for Management (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Berlin
Oct 2026
Added GD&T to stack
Oct 2026
Added Sensor Fusion to stack
Oct 2026
Added Isaac Sim to stack
Oct 2026
Added Gazebo to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Schlieren
Sep 2026
Added YOLO to stack
Sep 2026
Added TensorRT to stack
Sep 2026
Added ROS2 to stack
Sep 2026
Added GStreamer to stack
Sep 2026
Added CUDA to stack
Sep 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at CDDS over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
17
Postings analysed
11
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
Python82%
C++27%
Frameworks & libraries
ArduPilot36%
ROS227%
CUDA9%
GStreamer9%
Cloud & platforms
Linux45%
AI & ML
YOLO9%
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Full CDDS tech stack
17 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
News
Florida CDDs in Dirt-Bond Quagmire
BRADENTON, Fla. — Defaults by some Florida community development districts that sold “dirt bonds” to finance infrastructure improvements for residential and commercial real estate projects continued Monday as debt-service payments came due.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Zurich
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Zurich
Switzerland
HQ
3 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for DevOps, Robotics, Management
Berlin
Germany
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Management
Earlier presence
Schlieren, Switzerland