Turkey's largest defense electronics manufacturer with indigenous avionics, radar, and unmanned systems
Aselsan is a state-backed Turkish defense electronics company with 10,000+ employees building communications, radar, avionics, unmanned systems, and missile platforms. The tech stack reveals a hardware-first engineering organization: heavy use of MATLAB, CUDA, and TensorRT for signal processing and AI inference, paired with Java/Spring for command-and-control software and Kafka for distributed system integration. Active hiring is 85% engineering-focused with a mid-level dominant mix, and projects show acute focus on AI-assisted fault management and weapons-platform integration—signaling pressure to automate maintenance and scale complex embedded systems.
Aselsan manufactures defense electronics and systems for Turkish Armed Forces and export markets. Founded in 1975 as a state enterprise, it is now majority-owned by the Turkish Armed Forces Foundation with 25.8% public shareholding on Istanbul Borsa. The product portfolio spans communication systems, radar and electronic warfare, electro-optics, avionics, unmanned aerial systems, land and naval systems, air defense, missile systems, and command-and-control platforms. The company also produces transportation, security, traffic control, automation, and medical systems. Aselsan ranks among the top 100 global defense contractors by Defense News and operates primarily in Turkey with an established export channel.
MATLAB, C++, CUDA, TensorRT, and PyTorch for signal processing and AI; Java, Spring Framework, and Kafka for command-and-control and distributed systems; PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch for data; Docker, Kubernetes, and Jenkins for deployment and CI/CD.
Command-and-control software, weapon-system architectures for fixed and rotary-wing platforms, AI-supported fault management, platform-level system integration, EMC test systems, and lifecycle cost modeling. Projects reflect integration of AI into real-time embedded systems and modernization of workshop processes.
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