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Saildrone Tech Stack

Autonomous maritime systems for defense intelligence and ocean operations

Defense and Space Manufacturing Alameda, California 201–500 employees Privately Held

Saildrone builds uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) for defense and maritime intelligence missions. The tech stack reveals a distributed systems architecture—Python, TypeScript, Kubernetes, gRPC, and AWS microservices—paired with embedded systems depth (C/C++, NXP processors, Yocto). Active hiring skews engineering-heavy with manufacturing and ops support, and the project list (fleet monitoring, mission execution APIs, security systems, electro-mechanical design) shows concurrent work across software platforms, vehicle subsystems, and production scaling—reflecting the challenge of shipping hardware at volume while maintaining mission reliability.

Tech Stack 38 technologies

Core StackPython TypeScript AWS AWS Lambda PostgreSQL Kubernetes Linux Ansible gRPC FastAPI Go Terraform Puppet C++ Jira AWS SNS AWS SQS OAuth OIDC Protocol Buffers Hapi Django REST Framework Bazel C/C++ AWS SNS AWS SQS Palantir Foundry Nvidia NXP i.MX8 Yocto Altium 365+8 more

What Saildrone Is Building

◆Challenges

Maintaining vehicle uptime
Improving vehicle reliability
Production scaling
Operating in harsh environments
High-mix low-volume production
Ensuring on-time deployments
Maintaining high mission uptime
Stability and scalability of our platform
Budget and profitability management
Scaling system operations

▲Active Projects

Assembly and service workflows for vehicle fleet
Automated security systems for drones and shore-side systems
Electro-mechanical sub-assembly design for saildrone usv
Design and validation of electrical components for usvs
Incident response
Authentication and authorization systems
Fleet monitoring systems
Customer-facing apis
Global usv mission execution
Establish quality kpis and reporting dashboards

Hiring Activity

Accelerating65 roles · 35 in 30d

Department

Engineering

28

Ops

18

Finance

5

Manufacturing

4

Operations

3

Security

2

Data

1

Product

1

Seniority

Senior

24

Mid

15

Staff

8

Manager

6

Lead

4

Junior

3

VP

3

Director

1

Notable leadership hires: Platform Lead

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About Saildrone

Saildrone designs and operates autonomous maritime vehicles for defense, intelligence, and ocean-mapping missions. The company's vehicles are built to operate in harsh ocean environments, equipped with sensor suites and AI systems to gather persistent wide-area intelligence and execute multi-domain military and civilian tasks. The business model combines hardware manufacturing (high-mix, low-volume production) with cloud software platforms for mission planning, fleet monitoring, and real-time data delivery. Saildrone operates globally and is headquartered in Alameda, California, with additional hiring activity in Denmark.

HeadquartersAlameda, California

Company Size201–500 employees

Hiring MarketsUnited States, Denmark

Frequently Asked Questions

What tech stack does Saildrone use?

Python, TypeScript, AWS (Lambda, SNS, SQS), Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, gRPC, C/C++, Go, and Palantir Foundry for data ops. Embedded systems use NXP i.MX8 processors and Yocto Linux.