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We Raised $42M to Replace the Legacy Tooling Hardware Engineers Still Depend On

Sift is building the observability layer for hardware, turning fragmented sensor data into real-time, AI-ready insights for mission-critical systems.
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Infrastructure
Test Automation
Defense
Energy

Sift joins the NVIDIA Inception program

Accelerating development of tools for automated anomaly detection using NVIDIA’s AI frameworks.
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Sift + Palantir | From anomaly to root cause in seconds

How we cut hardware fault triage from hours to seconds by connecting Sift's real-time detection with Palantir Foundry + AIP
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CI/CD for hardware: why the best teams never stop testing

The most impactful practice in modern software development is now available for hardware. Sift enables continuous validation for complex machines. This is how CI/CD principles and Sift’s Rules give engineers continuous releases, greater certainty, and less risks and costs.
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Anomaly detection & RCA
Test Automation
Collaboration
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How TEC is accelerating Europe’s next propulsion systems on Sift

Propulsion development lives or dies by test cadence. When the data pipeline is fragmented , the iteration loop slows. The Exploration Company (TEC) tests with Sift, accelerating two of Europe’s most ambitious propulsion programs: the Mistral green hypergolic thruster and the Huracan electric-pump-fed cryogenic rocket engine.
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Aerospace

Two Cities, 80 People, One Mission

Sift is expanding to two cities with new senior leaders across engineering, product, sales, and design to bring modern data infrastructure to rockets, robots, and autonomous machines.
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From intuition to institution: How the best hardware teams turn engineering judgment into compounding velocity

A hardware team's most valuable asset is the accumulated judgment of its engineers. The instinct to protect it by freezing the design is ironically what destroys it. Here's how the best teams manage risk through change and turn attrition risk into engineering acceleration.
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Anomaly detection & RCA
Collaboration
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How Sift built instant search across millions of sensors

When your mission is on the line, every second counts. See how we made search 20x faster: from regex to real time.
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Data exploration
Infrastructure
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When Grafana dashboards stop being enough

You'll outgrow your Grafana backend before you outgrow Grafana. Here's how to keep the dashboards you love without the infrastructure pain.
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Infrastructure
Data exploration
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The data problem no one solved

Sift co-founder and CTO Austin Spiegel joins the BUILT Leaders podcast to discuss why hardware telemetry has lagged decades behind software observability — and how lessons from SpaceX and Riot Games shaped Sift's product, team, and culture.
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Tracking Orion around the Moon with Sift

Follow NASA’s Artemis II mission beyond low Earth orbit through real telemetry—visualized in Sift to reveal how Orion’s journey unfolds in data.
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Data exploration
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Fast Company: Inside the SpaceX founder factory

An inside look at how SpaceX’s engineering culture is spawning a new generation of founders tackling hard, real-world problems across industries.
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CI/CD for hardware: enabling rapid development, testing, and scaling

As hardware evolves, the data and logic to validate it gets left behind – except with Sift.
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Anomaly detection & RCA
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Machines Without Limits: Announcing the Sift 2026 Winter Release

From test stands to orbit, this release extends Sift across the full hardware lifecycle.
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Inside the air gap: how Sift powers mission-critical operations

When the race back to space is a natsec priority, offering on-prem deployments to support air-gapped environments is not a “nice-to-have.” It’s table stakes.
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Live Ops
Aerospace
Defense

Voxel Energy + Sift

Energy infrastructure for the next generation of compute
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From SpaceX to the Pentagon: Building the "Big Six"

How Sift supports the technologies of tomorrow's warfighters.
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Defense

Working at Sift: Anna Waldron

Anna Waldron is building data infrastructure that holds up under pressure, helping aerospace teams trace failures and move faster with confidence.
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Working at Sift: Kevin Limburg

Kevin Limburg went from using Sift to building Sift. Find out why he joined the team that powers the telemetry infrastructure for satellites, autonomous freight vehicles, airplanes, and more.
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Telemetry streaming at scale: K2’s tens-of-millions-point problem

K2 went from a small startup that produced 10MB of data/year to several TB/day. And they can stream all of it seamlessly on Sift.
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Infrastructure
Aerospace

Working at Sift: Alexa Agnew

Alexa Agnew went from managing roadmaps to writing code. Now she’s building the software behind tomorrow’s launch systems.
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Working at Sift: Mike Casey

From tracking China's space program to helping US rocket teams move faster, Mike Casey brings urgency and impact to his work at Sift.
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Why I joined Sift: Russ Parrish

Russ Parrish designs the tools behind rocket launches and robotic surgery. Now he’s building for the next wave of hard tech at Sift.
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N2K Podcast Recap

Karthik shares lessons from SpaceX and discusses how Sift simplifies hardware observability so teams verify behavior, capture knowledge, and move faster.
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Webinar Recap: Unifying Hardware Genealogy Across Aerospace and Defense Organizations

Learn how aerospace and defense teams are closing the traceability gap with real-time genealogy to reduce risk, speed audits, and improve reliability.
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The Sift Manifesto: Machine Without Limits

Teams who can see, understand, and act on complexity in real time will define what’s next. The age of flying blind is over. This is what comes after.
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Engineering at the Speed of Flight

CX2 has partnered with Sift to move from test to insight without delay — accelerating root cause and powering confident decisions at flight speed.
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Defense

Why Impulse Space Chose to Build on Sift

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Aerospace

Sift and Manufacturo Partner to Deliver End-to-End Machine Data Traceability Across the Hardware Lifecycle

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Why K2 Space Chose Sift to Power Scalable Satellite Operations

Operating a single satellite is one thing—managing a constellation is another. K2 Space turned to Sift for instant root-cause analysis, seamless data review, and an engineering workflow built for scale.
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Aerospace

High Velocity, High Stakes: Building the Future of Supersonic Travel

Discover how Astro Mechanica uses Sift to refine supersonic jet testing with precision, speed, and clarity.
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Aerospace

Critical Loop Enhances Real-Time Fleet Asset Monitoring with Sift

Discover how Critical Loop uses Sift’s real-time telemetry to tackle utility grid instability and ensure reliable mobile energy delivery.
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Energy

Combining Efficient Flight with SpaceX Expertise

With Sift managing their data systems, JetZero accelerated innovation while maintaining clarity and precision in operations. Read our latest customer story.
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Aerospace

Enhancing Real-Time Telemetry Analysis with LTTB Downsampling

Managing massive telemetry data streams is tough. Learn how Sift uses LTTB downsampling to balance efficiency, accuracy, and critical insight preservation in real-time analysis.
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From SpaceX to Sift: Simplifying Data Complexity for Engineers

Sift's CTO, Austin Spiegel, reflects on lessons from SpaceX and Riot Games, and how Sift is helping engineers simplify data complexity in modern hardware
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Building on Hard Problems: Lessons from Karthik [Podcast Recap]

Learn how Karthik applied first principles from SpaceX to build Sift, tackling engineering complexity and shaping tools for mission-critical systems.
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Sift Named Winner in Fast Company's Next Big Things in Tech Awards

SIft named a top innovator by Fast Company. From lunar rovers to freight rail, Sift’s platform empowers engineers with robust data insights to improve AV safety, efficiency, and compliance.
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Inside the Mission-Critical Mindset with Karthik [Podcast Recap]

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Payload Podcast: Telemetry Unleashed

Sift's CEO Karthik Gollapudi and CTO Austin Spiegel recently appeared on the Pathfinder podcast to discuss our mission of revolutionizing software tools for complex machines, with a focus on advanced telemetry solutions.
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How Sift is Helping Reliable Robotics Pioneer Autonomous Aviation

In the aviation industry, safety and reliability are paramount. Reliable Robotics, a Mountain View-based company founded in 2017 by experienced aerospace engineers Robert Rose and Juerg Frefel, is taking a measured, practical approach to enhancing aviation safety through automation. Their mission is to bring safe, certified autonomous systems to commercial and defense aviation.
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Robotics

A Guide to Understanding Startup Equity

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Sift Interview Process: Engineering

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Going to the Moon with Astrolab

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Aerospace

Sift Raises $17.5M Series A to Propel the Future of Machine Innovation

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Why We Left SpaceX to Solve the Biggest Challenge in Hardware Engineering

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Revolutionizing Freight with Autonomous, Battery-Electric Rail Vehicles

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Autonomous Vehicles

TechCrunch: How Two Ex-SpaceX Engineers Are Bringing Rocket Software to the Factory Floor

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