Aerostat-based surveillance and connectivity systems with AI video analytics
ALTAVE designs and manufactures tethered aerostat systems for persistent surveillance and telecom, pairing in-house hardware with AI-driven monitoring software. Its stack spans PCB tools (Altium, KiCad, OrCAD), embedded platforms (STM32, ESP32) and field protocols like LoRa and Modbus alongside Ansible, Kubernetes and Prometheus, pointing to a push to automate hybrid network operations. Accelerating, engineering- and manufacturing-heavy hiring suggests production scale-up.
Notable leadership hires: Field Operations Lead
ALTAVE is a privately held company founded in 2011 and headquartered in São José dos Campos, Brazil, with 51–200 employees. It builds tethered balloon platforms for wide-area surveillance and connectivity, combined with proprietary AI software that delivers real-time, georeferenced information. Customers come from defense and security, energy, mining, ports, agribusiness and oil and gas. The company covers the full lifecycle, from needs analysis and contracting through maintenance and ongoing support. It is accredited as a Strategic Defense Company in Brazil and holds CE marking for EU sales.
ALTAVE uses AWS, GCP and Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Zabbix, Grafana and Prometheus, plus embedded and hardware tools such as C++, STM32, ESP32, Altium Designer, KiCad, SolidWorks and CATIA.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating and led by engineering and manufacturing, with additional ops, product and support roles, all based in Brazil, including a Field Operations Lead position.
Current work includes Ansible-based network provisioning automation, hybrid connectivity orchestration, AI training pipeline automation and dataset generation, power subsystem design, PCB development and IoT module validation.
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