Senior Embedded Hardware/Software Engineer Required

Bicester, Oxfordshire UK.


Stack is a world-leading supplier of dashboard instruments, data acquisition and video systems to motorsport and automotive customers worldwide. Due to significant new investment we are embarking on a major expansion plan and we are now looking for additional senior engineers.

You need to be degree or equivalent qualified, highly motivated and able to cope in a fast, demanding and changing environment. We can promise an interesting, exciting and rewarding challenge.

This will be a significant role within a team responsible for developing the next generation of data acquisition, solid state video recorders and intelligent sensors for motorsport, automotive and other rugged/harsh environments.

The role will involve specification, design, documentation and production handover. The work will include the embedded code, digital and analogue design of processor, DSP and sensor based products to suit rugged/harsh environments

Your career to date will have spanned 10 years of embedded, analogue and digital design. Experience of DSP’s and video would be an advantage and/or within an automotive and ISO9000 environment would be beneficial. Motorsport experience or interest would help but is not vital.

If you are interested in this fantastic opportunity please contact Astra Mead for an application pack. Please quote Ref: BLG1


Astra Mead
Stack Limited
Wedgwood Road Bicester, Oxon OX26 4UL
Tel: 01869 240404, Fax: 01869 245500
Email: sales@stackltd.com


Stack are an equal opportunity employer.

Auto Meter Products, Inc. Completes Acquisition of Stack Limited

BICESTER, U.K., July 13, 2007 – Stack Limited was acquired by Auto Meter Products, Inc. a Harbour Group company, Alan Rock, Stack’s Managing Director, announced. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Stack Limited, based in Bicester, United Kingdom, is a leading global developer and supplier of professional-quality data acquisition systems and instrumentation for automotive racing and other rugged applications. Stack’s products include sophisticated modular data and video-logging solutions, integrated driver displays, tachometers, and other gauges. Alan Rock, Managing Director, and Trevor Tapping, Technical Director, lead Stack Limited and will continue in their respective roles after the transaction.

Mr. Rock commented,

“Trevor and I have a strong team, of which we’re very proud. Stack designs and produces arguably the best products on the market, and now, with the support of the larger Auto Meter organization, we’ll be able to accelerate that development and improve our behind-the-scenes operations to better serve our customers across the globe. We’ve had several opportunities to partner with different companies over the years, but the opportunities this relationship with Auto Meter and Harbour Group provides to accelerate new product development and better serve our customers were too great to ignore. We’re very excited.”

“We’re very pleased to have Stack as a partner to Harbour Group and Auto Meter, and we look forward not only to aggressively growing the current Stack business, but also to the many exciting new product development opportunities this relationship creates,”

said Jeff Fox, Harbour Group’s Chief Executive Officer.

“Expanding and improving our data-acquisition offering is a high-priority objective for Auto Meter, and we believe Stack's products and engineering capabilities are among the best in the world in the data-acquisition space. We are confident this transaction will enable us to realize our objective."

Jeff King, President of Auto Meter, added,

“The product development capabilities of the Stack team are renowned in the racing industry, and their brand is incredibly well-regarded. The combination of their products and ours creates a powerful force in the critical function of information management for race teams. Alan and Trevor built a great business and we look forward to providing them the resources they need so they can focus on what they most enjoy – building great products and servicing their customers beyond expectations.”

Auto Meter designs and manufactures a broad range of automotive gauges, test equipment, data acquisition systems and accessories for auto, truck, motorcycle, and marine enthusiasts. From professional race teams in the top tier of their industry to individuals rebuilding cars in their garages, enthusiasts everywhere trust Auto Meter products to enhance the performance and appearance of their vehicles. Based in Sycamore, Illinois, Auto Meter delivers products to customers around with world through a variety of performance-oriented catalogs, retailers, and professional resellers.

Harbour Group, a privately owned company based in St. Louis, and its operating companies are engaged in the manufacture and distribution of a wide variety of consumer and industrial products. In addition to abrasives, diamond cutting products and related tools, current offerings include automotive enthusiast products, lubricating systems and equipment, specialty LED lighting products, linear actuators and switches, entertainment products, auxiliary plastic processing equipment, and heat exchange equipment. Since its founding in 1976, Harbour Group has completed 150 acquisitions in 32 industries.

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