CDDS builds autonomous drones that physically intercept hostile aircraft through calculated collision. The tech stack reveals a hardware-forward company: PCB design tools (Altium, KiCad, Eagle), CAD suites (SolidWorks, NX, Onshape), and embedded flight stacks (PX4, ArduPilot) paired with real-time vision (YOLO, DeepStream, NVIDIA Jetson). Active projects span perception backbone, low-latency vision pipelines, and electro-optical camera optimization—indicating the core challenge is reliable target detection and engagement at high speed. Engineering-heavy hiring (10 roles, mostly mid-level) reflects a founded-2024 company scaling hardware R&D and field testing velocity.
CDDS develops autonomous kinetic interceptor drones designed to neutralize hostile unmanned aircraft through real-time collision calculation. The company targets civil infrastructure protection—airports, power substations, data centers, large gatherings—and national security applications, particularly for countries requiring cost-effective counter-UAS solutions. Based in Zürich with 11–50 employees, CDDS is a public company founded in 2024. Work spans hardware design, embedded systems, real-time vision processing, and field deployments; the project backlog emphasizes next-generation platform development, flight performance optimization, and camera system specification for high-speed interception scenarios.
PCB design (Altium, KiCad, Eagle), CAD (SolidWorks, NX, Onshape), flight control (PX4, ArduPilot), vision (YOLO, DeepStream, NVIDIA Jetson, CUDA, TensorRT), and programming (Python, C++, Rust, ROS 2).
Next-generation interceptor platform, low-latency vision pipelines, camera system optimization, perception backbone for high-speed engagement, and real-world testing and deployments.
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