Special Technology Center
Electronic Warfare · Military Drones
42open roles
$19kmedian advertised pay
Scaling fasthiring pace, 92 of 100
30 daysmedian time a role stays open
Overview
Special Technology Center (STC) is a Russian defence electronics company headquartered in Saint Petersburg, founded in 2001. It develops and manufactures the Orlan family of unmanned aerial vehicles, electronic warfare systems such as Leer-3, radio monitoring and communications equipment for the Russian armed forces. It is under US and EU sanctions and hires software and C++ developers, automation engineers, interface designers and IT staff in Saint Petersburg and Bryansk.
How Special Technology Center hires
Truth index
B 77/100
Median time to fill
30 days
Ghost roles
28%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
44%
Special Technology Center scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 18 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 28% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 44% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 30 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
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$19k
Typical range
$12k – $42k
Open positions
22
10
Jobs
Junior
60%
Middle
20%
Senior
20%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 6 | $14k | $14k – $22k |
| Middle | 2 | $26k | $18k – $34k |
| Senior | 2 | $32k | $21k – $42k |
Highest paying role
Ведущий инженер-программист С++
$42k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Special Technology Center
By role, level and city, against the market · 22 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
92/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
51
41 opened / 24 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
30 days
faster than 45% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~18 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+1050%
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.
Backend
25% ▼
Hardware
13% ▼
QA
11% ▼
Aerospace
8% ▲
DevOps
7% ▲
Industrial Engineering
5% ▲
Actively hiring for Backend (+13 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Valgrind to stack
Nov 2026
Added OpenGL to stack
Nov 2026
Added Adobe XD to stack
Oct 2026
Added Adobe Photoshop to stack
Oct 2026
Added Adobe InDesign to stack
Oct 2026
Added Adobe Illustrator to stack
Oct 2026
Added Vue.js to stack
Oct 2026
Added React.js to stack
Oct 2026
Added npm to stack
Oct 2026
Added Angular to stack
Oct 2026
Added Outlook to stack
Oct 2026
Added Zenoh to stack
Oct 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Special Technology Center over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
122
Postings analysed
85
Stack modernity
72/100AI adopter
Languages
C++33%
Python25%
1C18%
SQL8%
Frameworks & libraries
Qt13%
STL7%
Angular1%
ArduPilot1%
Databases
PostgreSQL6%
SQLite2%
MySQL1%
ElasticSearch1%
Cloud & platforms
Linux52%
Windows26%
Astra Linux13%
GitLab CI11%
AI & ML
LLM2%
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
1
Busiest office
Saint Petersburg
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Saint Petersburg
Russia
HQ
47 open roles 86 posted in 90 days 64% engineering 1000-5000 est. staff $21k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, DevOps, Hardware
Политехническая улица 29А
Bryansk
Russia
1 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff $14k Avg Salary
hires for QA
Voronezh
Russia
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Backend
Earlier presence
Kaliningrad, Russia