About Us
Cardinal Peak delivers contract engineering services that enable companies to bring new embedded devices to market quickly and reliably, meeting their time-to-market objectives.
We offer end-to-end engineering consulting services, including high-level requirements definition, hardware design, embedded software design, application software design, QA and documentation. Clients also turn to Cardinal Peak to augment their internal teams with qualified consulting engineer staff members.
Cardinal Peak has special expertise in engineering embedded solutions having to do with video, audio and signal processing. Our consultant engineers serve clients in the security, cable/satellite, enterprise video, oil and gas, law enforcement, smartphone, defense and communications industries, among others.
Our clients turn to us because our engineering expertise is broader and deeper than any other consultant in the contract engineering marketplace. Cardinal Peak's engineering consultants are nimble enough to start adding value to a project right away, and our contract engineering services can be scaled or terminated as needed. Our clients report a lower cost to completion, accomplishing complex projects in fewer hours that it would take internal or other resources to get the job done.
What's more, Cardinal Peak is a collaborative partner, flexibly adapting to the engineering cultures of our clients, and working well with our clients' internal resources and any additional third-party providers on projects.
Our partners and senior engineer consultant staff have helped clients such as Palm, Time Warner Cable, Pelco and Thompson, among others, complete more than 100 projects on a wide variety of platforms. Read our case studies to get a better sense of how Cardinal Peak's contract engineering services have helped our clients bring feature-rich, differentiated embedded products to market on schedule and on budget.
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Case Studies
See how Cardinal Peak engineering consulting services have helped companies in a variety of industries successfully bring new embedded devices to market.
"We found Cardinal Peak's team to be very knowledgeable about embedded video delivery systems. Their ability to deliver working solutions on time, combined with excellent project management skills, helped bring success not only to the product they worked on directly, but also to other projects that were outside of their scope."
Ralph Schmitt, Vice President Product Marketing & Engineering, Kustom Signals
