Services

Technical teams,
staffed and managed.

Three ways to work with us. Experts in hardware, software, and AI.

30-day no-charge guarantee
01

Vendor managed services

Hand us the scope. We staff the team, run delivery, and own the outcome.

VMS · SOW delivery · Managed capacity · Outsourced engineering
Named delivery manager
One accountable owner for staffing, ramp, and status.
Measured on outcomes
Success criteria agreed up front, SOW or managed T&M.
We carry the churn
Hiring and replacements never land on your managers.
02

Flex engineering

Staff augmentation. Engineers who join your team and process, structured however you need.

Staff augmentation · Contingent workforce · Contract-to-hire · Payrolling / EOR · Nearshore
Any structure
Contract, contract-to-hire, or EOR. Switch any time.
Onsite to offshore
US onsite and hybrid, nearshore LATAM, offshore APAC. US persons for export-controlled work.
Vetted by engineers
Screened by people who have done the job.
03

Recruiting as a service

We run your technical hiring, and you get the platform we run it on.

Embedded recruiting · RPO · Technical recruiting · Direct placement
Full platform access
Pipelines, scorecards, and AI sourcing, fully visible to your recruiters.
Your roles stay yours
Run your own requisitions on the same platform. We do not work your reqs.
Specialist recruiters
Hardware, firmware, RF, and AI roles are what we recruit for.
Technical expertise

Deep expertise across domains

Hardware Design
PCB, RF, power, prototyping, DFM
Mechanical & Thermal
Enclosures, thermal, structural, packaging
Silicon & SoC
RTL, verification, bring-up, characterization
Wireless & RF
Modem, antennas, RF performance
Networking & Infrastructure
Protocols, ORAN, media delivery, cloud
Software & Firmware
RTOS, Linux, AI accelerators, interfaces
AI & Machine Learning
DSP, edge ML, vision, agents
Data Science
Collection, annotation, pipelines, benchmarks
Robotics & Autonomy
Controls, autonomy, actuation
Wearables & AR/VR
Devices, optics, tracking
Validation & Automation
Test automation, factory test, acoustics
Programs & Lab Ops
TPM, lab ops, sustaining

Hardware Design

Schematic through production ramp
All domains ↑

High-speed PCB design

Multi-layer and HDI boards taken through signal and power integrity closure and EMC pre-scan.

Altium · Cadence Allegro · HDI · DDR5 · PCIe Gen5 · SerDes · signal integrity · power integrity · impedance control · EMI/EMC · stackup design

RF & module design

Front-end integration, antenna tuning, module design, and shielding strategy.

RF front-end · antenna integration · module design · shielding · impedance matching · LNA/PA · filter design

Power & battery systems

Power electronics, charging topologies, and battery pack integration.

power electronics · BMS · charging topologies · DC-DC · efficiency optimization · cell characterization · battery safety

Prototyping & bring-up

Bring-up hardware, test fixtures, and failure analysis loops.

device prototyping · test fixtures · board bring-up · failure analysis · rework · DOE

Manufacturing & DFM

CM handoff, design-for-manufacture review, and production ramp support.

DFM · DFA · DFT · CM handoff · NPI builds · tooling · yield ramp · ECO management

Mechanical & Thermal

Enclosures, structures, and thermal budgets
All domains ↑

Enclosure & product structure

Housings, tolerance stack-ups, and assembly design that hold through manufacturing.

SolidWorks · Creo · NX · tolerance stack-up · GD&T · injection molding · sheet metal · sealing · IP rating

Thermal design

Thermal budgets, airflow, and cooling strategy validated in chamber.

thermal simulation · CFD · heat sink design · thermal interface materials · vapor chamber · chamber test · thermal budget

Structural & reliability

FEA, drop and vibration, and environmental qualification.

FEA · drop test · vibration · shock · HALT/HASS · environmental qualification

Packaging & industrial integration

Mechanical integration of boards, optics, antennas, and acoustics into one product.

mechanical integration · antenna clearance · acoustic sealing · optical alignment · cable routing

Silicon & SoC

RTL through first silicon and into product
All domains ↑

Digital design & verification

UVM environments built to a written coverage plan, delivered with closure reports and a regression suite.

RTL design · SystemVerilog · UVM · functional coverage · coverage closure · lint · CDC · synthesis · timing closure · DFT insertion

SoC integration & bring-up

First-silicon power-on, boot path, and debug through to a stable platform.

SoC integration · bootrom · post-silicon debug · JTAG · lab bring-up · power sequencing

FPGA prototyping & emulation

Pre-silicon platforms that let software start before tapeout.

FPGA prototyping · emulation · hybrid prototyping · pre-silicon software enablement

Post-silicon validation & characterization

Characterization, shmoo, and bin analysis across corners and units.

ATE · shmoo plots · corner characterization · yield analysis · bin analysis · silicon debug

Reference designs & productization

Reference platforms delivered as hardware, firmware, and FPGA together, then taken to production with your team.

reference design · evaluation platform · SDK enablement · productization · design kit · customer bring-up support

Wireless & RF

Radios, antennas, and getting through certification
All domains ↑

Wireless systems & modem integration

Radio integration and KPI work from bring-up to carrier acceptance.

5G NR · LTE · Wi-Fi 6E · Wi-Fi 7 · BLE · UWB · Thread · Matter · GNSS · link budget · modem bring-up · carrier acceptance · interoperability

Antenna & phased array

Antenna design, array calibration, and beamforming for terrestrial and satellite links.

antenna design · phased array · beamforming · array calibration · mmWave · satellite communications · SATCOM · beam steering · radiation pattern

Coexistence & RF performance

Desense hunting, OTA campaigns, and regulatory-ready evidence.

coexistence · desense · OTA testing · conducted test · TRP/TIS · PTCRB · FCC · CE · regulatory certification · networked EW

Networking & Infrastructure

Packet level to platform level
All domains ↑

Protocols & high-performance networking

Packet-level debugging and tuning across wired and wireless paths.

TCP/IP · QUIC · BGP · OSPF · VXLAN · TSN · 100G Ethernet · 400G · SmartNIC · DPDK · RDMA · latency tuning · congestion control

Media & A/V delivery

End-to-end audio and video quality of experience from data center to device.

video streaming · WebRTC · RTP · codecs · adaptive bitrate · QoE measurement · jitter buffer · low-latency delivery

Real-time & high-scale systems

Event-driven systems handling billions of events with bounded latency.

distributed systems · event streaming · Kafka · real-time pipelines · horizontal scale · backpressure · latency SLOs

Cloud & platform engineering

Infrastructure, deployment, and observability for engineering platforms.

AWS · GCP · Azure · Kubernetes · Terraform · CI/CD · observability · zero trust

Lab IT & instrument networks

Instrument networks, capture pipelines, and bench infrastructure that does not drop a run.

instrument control · SCPI over LAN · data capture · lab segmentation · asset management · bench uptime

ORAN & RAN

Open RAN components, fronthaul, and multi-vendor integration.

ORAN · O-RU · O-DU · O-CU · fronthaul · RIC · xApps · RAN integration · multi-vendor interop

5G core & network slicing

Core deployment, slicing, and service continuity.

5GC · SA/NSA · network slicing · UPF · AMF/SMF · IMS · roaming

Private 5G & enterprise networks

Private cellular builds for factories, labs, campuses, and defense sites.

private 5G · CBRS · spectrum planning · industrial IoT · campus networks · site survey

Telco cloud & edge

Cloud-native network functions and edge compute for carrier workloads.

CNF · MEC · edge compute · Kubernetes for telco · service mesh · network automation

Software & Firmware

C, C++, and Rust on constrained silicon
All domains ↑

RTOS & bare-metal firmware

Boot path, power state machine, and OTA measured against an agreed current budget.

C · C++ · Rust · Zephyr · FreeRTOS · ThreadX · bootloaders · secure boot · OTA · low-power states · current profiling

BSP & Linux platform enablement

Board support packages, kernel drivers, and platform bring-up.

Linux kernel · device tree · Yocto · Buildroot · kernel drivers · Android HAL · U-Boot

Firmware for AI accelerators

Firmware, runtimes, and drivers for commercial and custom AI silicon.

NPU drivers · accelerator runtime · custom AI silicon · kernel scheduling · memory management · compiler toolchain integration · SDK enablement

Interfaces & data acquisition

High-speed buses and capture paths that do not drop samples.

USB · PCIe · MIPI · I3C · CAN · DMA · JTAG · SWD · trace · high-speed capture

AI & Machine Learning

Signal, perception, and production AI systems
All domains ↑

DSP & signal algorithms

Classical signal processing where latency and power are non-negotiable.

adaptive filtering · beamforming · acoustic echo cancellation · noise suppression · Kalman filtering · estimation theory

On-device & edge ML

Models shrunk and tuned to fit the NPU, DSP, or MCU you shipped.

quantization · pruning · distillation · TFLite Micro · ExecuTorch · ONNX · CMSIS-NN · NPU targeting · latency budgeting

Perception & computer vision

Applied AI across sensing, imaging, and depth.

computer vision · ISP tuning · depth estimation · object tracking · sensor fusion · SLAM integration

Model development & fine-tuning

Task-specific models trained, fine-tuned, and evaluated on your data.

PyTorch · fine-tuning · LoRA · QLoRA · distillation · domain adaptation · benchmarking · multimodal models

RAG & retrieval systems

Retrieval architectures built for accuracy on real corpora, not demos.

RAG · hybrid retrieval · vector databases · embeddings · chunking strategy · reranking · knowledge graphs · retrieval evaluation · context engineering

Agent systems

Multi-step agents with tool use, state, and defined failure behavior.

agent architecture · tool use · multi-agent orchestration · planning · state management · MCP · human-in-the-loop

Evaluation & guardrails

Eval harnesses, regression suites, and safety layers that make model changes provable.

eval harness · LLM-as-judge · golden datasets · regression testing · guardrails · red teaming · hallucination detection · output validation

Inference & MLOps

Serving, routing, and observability for production model workloads.

vLLM · Triton · GPU clusters · CUDA · inference optimization · KV caching · model routing · cost optimization · LLM observability

Data Science

The training data underneath the model
All domains ↑

Data collection

Structured capture campaigns across sensors, audio, vision, and field conditions.

data collection · sensor data capture · field collection · audio corpora · image and video capture · multimodal datasets · collection protocol design · consent and licensing

Annotation & labeling

Managed annotation operations with measured inter-annotator agreement.

data annotation · labeling operations · bounding boxes · segmentation · keypoint labeling · audio transcription · inter-annotator agreement · labeling guidelines · QA sampling

Dataset engineering

Pipelines, versioning, and curation that make training runs reproducible.

data pipelines · dataset versioning · deduplication · synthetic data · augmentation · data curation · feature stores · reproducibility

Evaluation datasets

Golden sets and benchmarks built to measure the thing you actually care about.

benchmark construction · golden datasets · test set design · coverage analysis · edge case mining

Robotics & Autonomy

Control loop to field trial
All domains ↑

Robot software & controls

ROS 2 stacks and control loops that behave on real hardware.

ROS 2 · motion planning · MPC · kinematics · real-time control · functional safety

Autonomy & navigation

Localization, mapping, and navigation measured against ground truth.

SLAM · VIO · path planning · sensor fusion · Isaac Sim · Gazebo · HIL · field trials

Actuation & mechatronics

Motors, drives, and end-effectors integrated with the control stack.

BLDC · motor control · encoders · gearboxes · actuator design · safety-rated stops

Wearables & AR/VR

Head-worn and on-body devices
All domains ↑

Wearable device engineering

Miniaturized electronics that still hit battery life, thermals, and fit.

flex PCB · system-in-package · miniaturization · battery life · comfort and fit · PPG · ECG · biosensing

Display & optics

Optical stacks and display tuning from bench metrology to perception.

micro-OLED · waveguides · pancake optics · MTF · color calibration · optical metrology

Tracking & input

6DoF, hand and eye tracking, and haptics inside a hard latency budget.

6DoF tracking · hand tracking · eye tracking · haptics · motion-to-photon latency · pose estimation

Validation & Automation

Bench to factory, with data you can trust
All domains ↑

Test automation

Frameworks and racks that run unattended, with results you can query.

Python · pytest · LabVIEW · TestStand · SCPI · VISA · HIL · CI integration · test frameworks

Factory & production test

Bench-to-line migration, fixtures, and yield monitoring at scale.

ATE · ICT · FCT · line bring-up · SPC · yield analysis · test coverage · fixture design

Characterization

Component and system-level characterization across corners and builds.

power characterization · RF characterization · thermal characterization · Gage R&R · DOE · MATLAB · Simulink · multiphysics

Acoustic measurement labs

Chambers, rigs, and correlation between lab, line, and field.

anechoic chamber · Klippel · APx500 · HATS · MOS testing · listening panels · electroacoustic measurement

Acoustic & audio engineering

Transducers, enclosures, arrays, and the tuning that ships.

transducer design · enclosure tuning · mic arrays · ANC · transparency · spatial audio · wake word · wind noise

Programs & Lab Ops

The scaffolding around engineering
All domains ↑

Technical program management

NPI schedules, cross-site execution, and risk burned down weekly.

NPI · EVT/DVT/PVT · ODM coordination · CM coordination · executive reporting · risk management · Jira

Lab operations

Lab build-out, asset and calibration management, technician staffing.

lab build-out · calibration management · asset tracking · ESD control · shift coverage · technician staffing

Sustaining & PLM

Documentation, ECOs, field failure triage, and audit readiness.

PLM · ECO · RMA analysis · field failure triage · process definition · audit readiness

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