About

Why we left SpaceX

After witnessing costly machine failures like the Boeing Starliner anomaly, those of us who spent our careers at SpaceX saw a deeper cause: engineers lacked tools capable of handling modern machine complexity.

Legacy observability systems built for software or IT don’t scale with high-frequency telemetry, leaving teams to stitch together brittle in-house solutions that slow development and drive up risk.

Sift was built to fix that. By unifying telemetry ingestion, storage, visualization, and review in one real-time platform, it removes data silos and gives engineers the clarity they need to iterate, diagnose, and optimize complex systems. We’re helping teams spend less time fighting data and more time solving the hardest engineering problems.

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Our mission

Advance science and technology by providing engineers advanced tools and infrastructure that help build our exciting future.

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Our vision

A world where engineers are never held back because the tools they use are as advanced as the systems they’re building.

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Our belief

To build machines without limits, you need tools without limits. That means delivering results, not just software.

Purpose Built

The operating system for mission-critical machines

Sift is a unified observability platform for physical systems spanning design, validation, manufacturing, and operations.

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Our Vision

We’re solving existential problems for mission-critical industries

Debug terabytes of telemetry in real-time
Achieve full traceability from lab to field
Test and verify at any scale
Capture and share operational knowledge
Move fast without compromising safety

Built for the most demanding environments

Sift supports teams that build, operate, and maintain complex machines. 
The systems that can’t afford to fail.
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Builders across industries trust Sift

SIFT INFRA

The tools to build complex machines weren't keeping pace with the machines themselves.

Our founders saw an opportunity to revolutionize how engineers work with data, paving the way for faster, safer innovation across industries.

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Machine without limits

Engineering teams are shipping defense systems, spacecraft, and autonomous fleets using disconnected tools and tribal workflows designed from a simpler era.

Sift is the new foundation for modern engineering.
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Engineer your future

We don't just ship features, we solve real-world problems for our customers to drive real-world impact. We're not a vendor, we're a force-multiplier.

We’re hiring engineers, designers, and operators who aren’t afraid to rethink how the world builds hardware.
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Sift is for those who build machines without limits

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