ABOUT US
Arecont Vision Costar (“AV Costar”) was launched by Texas-based Costar Technologies, Inc. (OTC Open Markets: CSTI) in July of 2018. While we’re a completely new company, we bring a 15-year legacy of surveillance industry leadership from the original Arecont Vision, LLC and two decades of industry experience from our corporate parent, Costar. (Learn more about Costar and our five operating companies at https://www.costartechnologies.com.)
AV Costar is a fun, exciting place to work in sunny California as we bring new, innovative products, and solutions to the security market. We design, build and support our own advanced video surveillance solutions used by commercial, institutional, and government customers around the world. We reach the market through our network of authorized security dealers, systems integrators, and distributors.
Our premier offering is the Arecont Vision Costar Total Video Solution™, built from our advanced single- and multi-sensor megapixel cameras, cloud-enabled video management software system, recurring-revenue generating web services, and fully network-managed video recorders.
ONE TEAM, MANY DISCIPLINES
AV Costar’s headquarters, R&D, and support functions are based from our collaborative workspace in downtown Glendale, in the Greater Los Angeles metro area. Great shopping, an outstanding variety of restaurants, and multiple entertainment venues are just steps away, and one of several area gyms is located right in our building complex.
Our primary manufacturing, operations, and warehouse facilities are located in nearby Duarte, California, and/or at our sister company CohuHD Costar’s facilities in San Diego, California. We also build other products to our exacting specifications and designs around the world for specific market requirements.
Our Advanced Technology Center is located in Costar’s facilities in Clovis, California, while our sales and support offices are located throughout the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East.
JOIN OUR TEAM
Arecont Vision Costar is always on the lookout for the best of the best to join us in our quest to deliver the industry's best customer service experience, along with the best video surveillance solutions to their needs. If you're awesome, we'd like to hear from you.
The following positions are currently being actively recruited for by the company. Follow the link for each position to submit your application.
Accounting
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Staff Accountant (Click here to see overview)
Position Overview
Arecont Vision Costar is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Staff Accountant as part of the Costar Finance team.
The winning candidate will work with our dynamic team of technology experts who aspire to overcome and solve some of the most pressing problems in digital imaging every day.
Position Type
- Full time, at-will employment
Location
- Glendale
- Clovis
- San Diego
Summary of Duties
- Cost accounting, cost variance analysis, and reporting as part of the Finance team
- General accounting duties including journal entry preparation and posting, month-end closing tasks, and reconciliation of accounts
- Invoicing customers and maintaining accurate accounting for sales transactions
- Special analysis and profit improvement projects
Requirements
- Previous accounting experience at a product manufacturer
- Excellent analytical abilities
- Proven ability to function as part of a Finance team
- Bachelor’s degree in business accounting, finance, or related area, or equivalent experience
- Professional Accounting or Finance accreditation a plus
Required Skills
- Familiarity with accounting practices for manufacturing companies
- Accurate, detailed, and analytical in performance of duties
- A high sense of urgency to meet deadlines, and persistence to find solutions.
- Aptitude to learn complex ERP systems
- Understanding of basic cost accounting and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
Optional skills
- NetSuite experience a plus
- Intermediate level Excel skills
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Advanced Technology
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Senior Hardware Architect (Click here to see overview)
Position Overview
The Advanced Product Development Group at Arecont Vision Costar is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Senior Hardware Architect in FPGA based Image Processing. The winning candidate will have the opportunity to develop cutting-edge image processing algorithms for next generation surveillance cameras.
The winning candidate will work with our dynamic team of technology experts who aspire to overcome and solve some of the most pressing problems in digital imaging every day. In addition, duties will include presentations to engineering, development, and executive management, file patents, and write technical reports on an ongoing basis.
The winning candidate actively collaborate with our teams of highly experienced hardware, firmware, software, and product engineers to rapidly productize new technology developments, and design and implement future planning.
Position Type
- Full time, at-will employment
Location
- Glendale
- Clovis
- San Diego
Summary of Duties
- Develop and implement cutting edge image processing algorithms in Verilog and VHDL
- Collaborate with hardware, firmware, and product engineers to convert ideas into new products
- Stay on top of latest advances in video processing and advise upper management on technology trends
- File patent applications, make presentations, and write technical reports
- Requirements
- PhD or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
- Proven expertise in FPGA based digital image processing
Required Skills
- FPGA Image Processing
- Computational Imaging
- Image Sensors
- Verilog, VHDL, C, MATLAB
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Optional skills
- Familiarity with Image Sensors, Optics, Video Compression, & Networking Protocols
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Engineering
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Mechanical Designer/Engineer (Click here to see overview)
Position Overview
Arecont Vision Costar is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Mechanical Designer/ Engineer for our Product Development, Engineering and R&D teams.
The winning candidate will work with our dynamic team of technology experts who aspire to overcome and solve some of the most pressing problems in digital imaging every day.
Position Type
- Full time, at-will employment
Location
- Glendale
- Clovis
- San Diego
Summary of Duties
- Develop and implement superior mechanical designs for sub-assemblies, assemblies, accessories, and complete surveillance camera units
- Engage with Product Development, R&D, and Engineering teams to design economical and winning product mechanicals that can be successfully productized on a timely basis
Requirements
- BS/MS in mechanical engineering Strong analytical and organizational skills
- Experience in design for high tech or other complicated mechanical assemblies & products
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
Optional skills
- Familiarity with surveillance cameras and related products a plus
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Reliability Engineer (Click here to see overview)
Position Overview
Arecont Vision Costar is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Reliability Engineer for our Product Development, Engineering and R&D teams.
The winning candidate will work with our dynamic team of technology experts who aspire to overcome and solve some of the most pressing problems in digital imaging every day.
Position Type
- Full time, at-will employment
Location
- Glendale
- Clovis
- San Diego
Summary of Duties
- Develop and implement cutting edge image processing algorithms in Verilog and VHDL
- Collaborate with hardware, firmware, and product engineers to convert ideas into new products
- Stay on top of latest advances in video processing and advise upper management on technology trends
- File patent applications, make presentations, and write technical reports
Requirements
- BS or MS degree in science or engineering with 5+ years of previous experience
- Hands-on experience in reliability/device engineering
Required Skills
- Familiarity with reliability standards
- FPGA Image Processing
- Computational Imaging
- Image Sensors Verilog, VHDL, C, MATLAB
- Familiarity with reliability standards
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
Optional skills
- Familiarity with Image Sensors, Optics, Video Compression, & Networking Protocols
- Familiarity with electric and/or IC design and production process, circuit functions, SW and programming skills are a plus
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Senior Firmware Engineer (Click here to see overview)
Position Overview
Arecont Vision Costar is seeking qualified Senior Firmware Engineer candidates to join our R&D and engineering teams to develop firmware for our megapixel IP security camera families, part of our Total Video Solution.
If you are a top-notch engineer, with experience in firmware development, we’d love to tell you more about this amazing opportunity.
Position Type
- Full time, at-will employment
Location
- Glendale
- Clovis
- San Diego
Qualifications
- +5 years of embedded systems and firmware development
- Strong skills in Real Time Embedded controls using RTOS, C, C++ programming
- Solid background in digital image processing, compression, algorithms, and analysis
- Experience using embedded 32-bit ARM Cortex
- Experience in FPGA and PCB debugging
Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- Solid software development skills and ability to write production quality code
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work well in an open, collaborative team environment
Compensation
- Competitive salary based upon experience
- Excellent benefits include paid vacation, medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, group life insurance, long-term disability, short-term disability, and 401K
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Software Engineer (Click here to see overview)
Position Overview
Arecont Vision Costar is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Software Engineer for our development teams. We develop cutting edge solutions and features for our IP megapixel cameras that are part of our Total Video Solution.
The winning candidate will work with our dynamic team of technology experts who aspire to overcome and solve some of the most pressing problems in digital imaging every day.
Position Type
- Full time, at-will employment
Location
- Glendale
- Clovis
- San Diego
Requirements
- BS degree in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
- Minimum 5 years’ experience as a firmware engineer developing and implementing signal processing algorithms on large, dense, high-speed FPGAs (e.g., Xilinx, Altera) using VHDL or Verilog
- 7 to 10 years’ experience as a software or firmware engineer developing and implementing signal processing algorithms on large, dense, high-speed FPGAs (e.g., Xilinx, Altera) using VHDL or Verilog
- Experience in the areas of real-time embedded programming, signal processing, or algorithm development, and/or modeling and simulation, including work in C/C++, Python, or Matlab
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
Optional skills
- Familiarity with Megapixel Camera Technology, Image Sensors, Optics, Video Compression, & Networking Protocols
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Software Quality Engineer (Click here to see overview)
Position Overview
Arecont Vision Costar is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Software Quality Engineer for our R&D, Product Development, and Engineering teams.
The winning candidate will work with our dynamic team of technology experts who aspire to overcome and solve some of the most pressing problems in digital imaging every day.
Position Type
- Full time, at-will employment
Location
- Glendale
- Clovis
- San Diego
Summary of Duties
- Automated test writing for unit, integration, functional and other types of tests
- Identifying Acceptance Criteria
- Debugging, troubleshooting code
- Demonstrating enhancements and bug fixes
- Working with developers, business analysts, and other QA Engineers
- Daily standups
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
- 1 or more year’s experience working in a structured QA environment
- Quality assurance experience, preferably with web applications, architectures, and relevant development/QA tools
Required Skills
- Strong Analytical skills
- Customer Focus and Relationship Building, including demonstrated ability to work well with developers, product management, QA team, & engineering management
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
Optional skills
- Familiarity with Megapixel Camera Technology, Image Sensors, Optics, Video Compression, & Networking Protocols
- Package managers like Pym, npm, debuggers, http proxies and packet capture
- Familiarity with load testing concepts and load test tools such as OpenSTA, Grinder, or JMeter
- Familiarity with Zendesk, JIRA or other issue trackers and version control systems like git
- Security testing
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Sales
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Inside Sales Specialist/Manager (Click here to see overview)
Position Overview
Arecont Vision Costar is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Inside Sales Specialist or Inside Sales Manager for our Inside Sales / Customer Support team. We are focused on providing an excellent customer experience, and the Inside Sales / Customer Support team is key to achieving that, every day.
The winning candidate will work with our dynamic team of technology experts who aspire to overcome and solve some of the most pressing problems in digital imaging every day.
Position Type
- Full time, at-will employment
Location
- Glendale
- Clovis
- San Diego
Summary of Duties
- Field inbound phone calls and emails from systems integrators, security dealers, distributors, consultants, sales employees, manufacturer’s representatives and end-users, providing product information, promotion details, and overall account support
- Track orders, requests, and project registrations
- Proactively follow up with customers, making outbound calls and emails to generate interest in sales campaigns, promote brand recognition, gather data and additional tasks as required by sales, marketing, and executive management
- Use Microsoft Dynamics CMR to convert leads and update and track existing opportunities, including creating reports to monitor sales activities
- Strategically work with sales partners and field sales teams to create new opportunities
Requirements
- Associate’s or bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
- Minimum 1 year’s inside sales or customer support telephone experience for Inside Sales Specialist; minimum of 3 years related experience for Inside Sales Manager position
Required Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work both independently and as part of the Inside Sales / Customer Support team
- Working knowledge and current experience using CRM systems
- Previous experience in a sales environment with a technology manufacturer or retailer is a plus
- Attention to detail and efficient at multi-tasking
Optional skills
- Familiarity with Microsoft Dynamics CRM a strong plus
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Regional Sales Manager (RSM) - NorCal (Click here to see overview)
Position Overview:
The Regional Sales Manager (RSM) is focused on sales in the NorCal Market. The RSM, reporting to the Director of Sales for the region, is responsible for sustaining and growing sales in their assigned region through activity with System Integrators, End Users, Distributors and Technology Partners.
Territory:
- Northern California
- Nevada
Responsibilities include:
- Meet or exceed monthly sales targets and growth expectations.
- Manage project development with Systems Integrators and Distributors.
- Drive camera and VMS recommendations and specifications through activity with End Users, A&Es, and Security Consultants.
- Team with VMS Partners and other Technology Partners to increase revenue and market awareness.
- Team with and manage Arecont Vision’s local Manufacturer’s Representative to drive sales in the region where applicable.
- Understand market trends and dynamics.
- Conduct trainings, events, on-site product demonstrations, and roadshows.
- Weekly / Monthly calls with Arecont Vision’s Management.
- Effective use of CRM system to manage opportunities, contacts and leads
- Be the face of Arecont Vision in the region.
- Attend and exhibit at national or regional trade shows as required.
- Other additional responsibilities to drive revenue and market share.
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree or similar
Experience/Personal Skills:
- Must speak fluent English.
- Must live in the territory of coverage.
- Proven Track record of success in the region.
- Minimum of 3 years of outside selling/project management experience in the Security Industry or IT related field.
- Self-Driven and motivated to succeed in a highly competitive environment.
- Great organizational skills.
- Strong communication skills and able to communicate effectively in cross functional teams.
- Strong public speaking skills, able to present technical information effectively to large audiences.
- Excel in a fast paced, multi-tasking environment remaining focused on key goals as well as the ability to work under time constraints.
- Professional and articulate in both verbal and written communication.
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Must be technically adept and able to trouble shoot issues and help find solutions as they arise.
- Excellent business acumen.
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Regional Sales Manager (RSM) - Pacific Northwest (Click here to see overview)
Position Overview:
The Regional Sales Manager (RSM) is focused on sales in the Pacific Northwest Market. The RSM, reporting to the Director of Sales for the region, is responsible for sustaining and growing sales in their assigned region through activity with System Integrators, End Users, Distributors and Technology Partners.
Territory:
- Washington
- Oregon
- Idaho
- Montana
- Alaska
Responsibilities include:
- Meet or exceed monthly sales targets and growth expectations.
- Manage project development with Systems Integrators and Distributors.
- Drive camera and VMS recommendations and specifications through activity with End Users, A&Es, and Security Consultants.
- Team with VMS Partners and other Technology Partners to increase revenue and market awareness.
- Team with and manage Arecont Vision’s local Manufacturer’s Representative to drive sales in the region where applicable.
- Understand market trends and dynamics.
- Conduct trainings, events, on-site product demonstrations, and roadshows.
- Weekly / Monthly calls with Arecont Vision’s Management.
- Effective use of CRM system to manage opportunities, contacts and leads
- Be the face of Arecont Vision in the region.
- Attend and exhibit at national or regional trade shows as required.
- Other additional responsibilities to drive revenue and market share.
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree or similar
Experience/Personal Skills:
- Must speak fluent English.
- Must live in the territory of coverage.
- Proven Track record of success in the region.
- Minimum of 3 years of outside selling/project management experience in the Security Industry or IT related field.
- Self-Driven and motivated to succeed in a highly competitive environment.
- Great organizational skills.
- Strong communication skills and able to communicate effectively in cross functional teams.
- Strong public speaking skills, able to present technical information effectively to large audiences.
- Excel in a fast paced, multi-tasking environment remaining focused on key goals as well as the ability to work under time constraints.
- Professional and articulate in both verbal and written communication.
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Must be technically adept and able to trouble shoot issues and help find solutions as they arise.
- Excellent business acumen.
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Tech Support
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Tech Support Specialist/Technician (Click here to see overview)
Position Overview
Arecont Vision Costar is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Tech Support Specialist and/or Technician as a member of Technical Assistance Center (TAC) team. We are focused on providing an excellent customer experience, and the TAC team is key to achieving that, every day.
The winning candidate will work with our dynamic team of technology experts who aspire to overcome and solve some of the most pressing problems in digital imaging every day.
Position Type
- Full time, at-will employment
Location
- Glendale
- Clovis
- San Diego
Summary of Duties
- Use your pleasant personality, troubleshooting abilities, and excellent written and verbal communications skills to log, investigate, and resolve customer technical issues in a timely and professional manner
- Conduct research in order to troubleshoot issues and resolve customer problems
- Listen to and diffuse client concerns and assure clients their issues will be resolved
- Independently manage time and projects
- Resolve a variety of customers’ technology problems
Requirements
- Minimum of 1-year customer support experience in previous or current assignment
- Associate’s or bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in remote customer support
Required Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to understand and guide technical troubleshooting over the phone
- Ability to provide excellent customer service, including timely follow-up & escalating issues as necessary
- Excellent time management skills
Optional skills
- Familiarity with video surveillance and security products a plus
- Experience with help desk/support ticket software such as Zendesk a plus
- Technology product certifications a plus
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