Fiducial

Robotics · Drones & UAVs
8open roles
1backers · YES!Delft
Atruth index, 87 of 100
97 daysmedian time a role stays open

Overview

Fiducial develops autonomous counter-drone and defence software for detection, interception and navigation in contested environments.

How Fiducial hires

Truth index
A 87/100
Median time to fill
97 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
33%
Reposted roles
0%

Fiducial scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 33% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 97 days. 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

Funding and backers

Hiring now
8
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
YES!Delft
Momentum
5/100
hiring for its size
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
Jun 2025 Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 23%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity PublicFDCL Defence B.V. its site
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$428k
Typical range
$428k
Open positions
1
1 Jobs
Intern 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Intern 1 $428k $428k
Highest paying role Internship - Programming & Automation $428k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
37/100
Slowing
Open positions
8
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
87 days
faster than 13% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 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.
Hardware
25% ▼
Security
25% ▼
Product
25% ▼
Industrial Engineering
25% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack Oct 2026
Added GD&T to stack Oct 2026
New location: Ukraine Oct 2026
Removed Linear from stack Sep 2026
Added Wi-Fi to stack Sep 2026
Added VPN to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Fiducial over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
35
Postings analysed
13
Stack modernity
75/100AI adopter
Languages
C++69%
Python62%
Rust8%
Frameworks & libraries
ArduPilot38%
Betaflight23%
COLMAP8%
CUDA8%
Cloud & platforms
Linux54%
GitHub23%
AI & ML
Gaussian Splatting15%
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Full Fiducial tech stack 35 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Connections

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Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors1
YES!DelftVia a fund
237 portfolio companies: QPhoton, VYTL Works, Elephate and 234 more

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Delft
Delft Netherlands
HQ
7 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 14% engineering $428k Avg Salary
hires for Early Careers, Hardware, Product
seen since Dec 2025 job postings