Areté is an employee-owned science and engineering firm building sensors and signal processing software for US defense and intelligence customers. Its stack pairs C++, CUDA, MPI and FPGAs with Unreal Engine, Unity and OpenGL for simulation, while Deltek Costpoint and Jama Connect reflect government-contract program controls. Engineering-heavy, accelerating hiring centers on electro-optic stabilized systems and moving prototypes into production.
Areté is a privately held, employee-owned advanced science and engineering company headquartered in Northridge, CA, founded in 1976. It develops sensors and the algorithms that extract and interpret their data for systems operating underwater, in the atmosphere and in space. Its customers are United States defense and intelligence agencies. Core specialties include ocean remote sensing, physics-based modeling, sensor hardware development and field test support. The company has 201–500 employees and hires within the United States.
Areté uses Python, C++, MATLAB, CUDA, MPI and FPGAs for engineering, Unreal Engine, Unity and OpenGL for visualization, GitLab and Jira for development, and Deltek Costpoint and IBM Cognos for business operations.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating and heavily weighted toward engineering, mostly mid- and senior-level roles, with smaller openings in operations, security, legal and manufacturing, all in the United States.
Job posts point to electro-optical stabilized pointing systems, PCB and cable harness design, new product introduction and production builds, integrated master schedules, and a self-hosted GitLab environment.
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