Software Defined Automation
softwaredefinedautomation.io
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$12.4M
1 round on record
Latest round
$12.4M
Venture round · Aug 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
4
open roles
The money's age
Long since its last round
50 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
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
Jul 7
Launched Software Defined Automation Launches Five New Platform Capabilities at Automate 2026 · softwaredefinedautomation.io
Feb 19
Certified Software Defined Automation Successfully Completes SOC 2 Audit · softwaredefinedautomation.io
Aug 5, 2022
Raised a round Venture round $12.4M · SEC Form D
2022
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Aug 2022 | $12.4M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Software Defined Automation Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Josef WaltlExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Axel ScheurerExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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How Software Defined Automation hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Software Defined Automation scores B 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, 100% 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
News
Software Defined Automation Launches Five New Platform Capabilities at Automate 2026
Collaborative PLC merging, native VS Code integration, live PLC values, IDE session recordings and a desktop local client extend SDA's Industrial DevOps platform Boston, July 2026: Software Defined Automation Inc. (SDA), the Industrial DevOps platform for
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The Comeback of Making Things - And Why the Best Engineers of the Next Decade Will Work in Factories
I recently sat down with with a Journalist from an Industry Publication for a long conversation about Industrial DevOps. We talked about tools, about AI, about NIS2. But the question that stayed with me afterwards was a bigger one: What is all of this act
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Software-defined Automation - is the squeeze worth the juice?
What Actually is Software-Defined Automation? The term "software-defined automation" is gaining momentum. It is showing up in analyst reports, on keynote stages, and in vendor roadmaps. That is a good sign - it means the industry is recognizing that the w
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Why your automation stack can't keep up with the line - and how software-defined architecture changes that
A read for automation engineers who've spent too many hours on a change that should have taken twenty minutes. The real cost of slow change You know the scenario. A process parameter needs adjusting - nothing exotic, just a setpoint correction that engine
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Software Defined Automation Inc. Adds AI Capabilities
The new tools include OT security capabilities and vendor support to address ongoing industrial automation challenges.
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Software Defined Automation Brings Multi-Vendor AI-Powered Engineering / Code Analysis and integrated PLC Vulnerability Management to Hannover Messe 2026
New platform capabilities include AI-driven code analysis, automated code generation, OT vulnerability management, CNC backup and Omron integration Munich, 30th of March 2026: Software Defined Automation Inc. (SDA), the Industrial DevOps platform for auto
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NIS2 & OT Security: From Compliance Risk to Management Strength
The NIS2 Directive turns OT security into a board-level, liability-relevant topic. Here's what industrial operators need to know - and do. What Is the NIS2 Directive, and Why Does It Matter Now? The EU's cybersecurity landscape changed fundamentally on 18
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Software Defined Automation Successfully Completes SOC 2 Audit
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Secure by Design: Software Defined Automation Is Now ISO 27001 Certified
Munich, Germany - February 20, 2026, Software Defined Automation, a pioneer in cloud-native industrial automation and virtualization technology, today announced that it has successfully achieved ISO/IEC 27001 certification, the internationally recognized
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Software Defined Automation over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
22
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
87/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Frameworks & libraries
LangChain
React.js
Playwright
Databases
DynamoDB
Cloud & platforms
API Gateway
AWS
AWS Bedrock
AWS Lambda
Amazon EventBridge
Anthropic
Developer tools
GraphQL
Model Context Protocol
AI & ML
Claude
LLM
Practices & domains
AI Agents
Function Calling
Physical AI
Prompt Engineering
RAG
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People
Josef Waltl
Executive Officer, Director
Axel Scheurer
Executive Officer, Director
Jon Rosenbaum
Director
Axel Bichara
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
4
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~7 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.
Sales
100% ▼
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Boston
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Newton
United States
HQ
Boston
United States
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Sales
Garching bei München
Germany
2 open roles 50-200 est. staff
hires for Legal, Early Careers
Jobs
≈ $157k – $313k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Boston
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
DynamoDB
AI/ML
LangChain
Claude
Model Context Protocol
Prompt Engineering
Function Calling
AI Agents
AWS Bedrock
LLM
RAG
Anthropic
Physical AI
Frontend
GraphQL
React.js
DevOps
AWS
AWS Lambda
Amazon EventBridge
API Gateway
QA
Playwright
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Financials
Total raised
$12.4M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2022 | $12.4M | Details |