About Us

As the valued partner of numerous large and midsize technology companies, Cardinal Peak's work has supported some of the most successful products and platforms delivered to market in recent years. Our culture of creativity and responsiveness to clients makes working with Cardinal Peak the fastest, most reliable way to bring embedded products and applications to market.

Our primary areas of specialization include Embedded Product Development, Mobile and Embedded Applications and Digital Video.

As contract engineers, we complement or supplement our clients' internal resources with end-to-end engineering consulting and contract engineering services.

Cardinal Peak Partners

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 & 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.

The exceptionally high return on investment that results from hiring Cardinal Peak has been proven in multiple arenas, including: Mobile Applications, Consumer Electronic Applications, Embedded Software, Hardware Design, Browser Plug-ins, Signal Processing, and IP Networking among many others. Our engineers are knowledgeable and nimble, and we add value to a project immediately. Plus, our contract engineering services can be scaled or terminated as needed. In a product development environment that rewards speed, accuracy and cost-efficiency, Cardinal Peak is the ultimate partner in achieving success.

Howdy Pierce Managing Partner

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"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