Safety-critical command-and-control systems for air traffic, emergency services, and transport
Frequentis operates in the highest-stakes corner of enterprise software—air traffic control, emergency dispatch, and transport infrastructure where downtime isn't an option. The company is scaling engineering-heavy (124 engineers across 208 open roles) while adopting Ansible and Python, and actively migrating legacy databases to modern tooling (Jira, microservices frameworks). The project list signals a shift toward containerized deployments and CI/CD maturity, alongside persistent compliance headwinds (ISO 45001, industry standards) that typically consume engineering cycles in safety-critical vendors.
Notable leadership hires: Head of Sales
Frequentist is a Vienna-based, publicly traded safety-critical software vendor with over 2,400 employees and revenue of EUR 480.3 million in 2024. The company supplies command-and-control platforms to air traffic management (civil and military), public safety (police, fire, emergency rescue), and transport operators (railways, coastguards, ports) across roughly 150 countries. The product portfolio spans air traffic optimization, aeronautical information management, unmanned traffic management, remote tower systems, and maritime solutions. Sales are supplemented by a small field team (18 roles), reflecting both direct and channel-based go-to-market patterns typical of infrastructure vendors with long implementation cycles.
Java, Kotlin, Python, Linux, Docker, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, VMware vSphere, Jira, Confluence, Ansible, and VoIP infrastructure. The company is actively adopting Ansible and Python while moving away from legacy database architectures.
Database migration to Jira and modern tooling, CI/CD pipeline improvements, microservices framework integration, remote and digital tower deployments, and third-party system integration for international customers.
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