Tech Jobs in NH? (Manchester, Nashua: sale, taxes, moving to)

[elmtree79]

Hi Folks,

New to this forum. I moved to Maryland from upstate NY...a long time ago...to start a career in s/w engineering.

Thirty+ years later after raising my family and watching taxes, entitlements, and crowds steadily increase I'm seriously thinking about moving to New Hampshire. Many of you may probably know exactly what I mean.

The question is - Jobs.

From what I'm hearing there is a shortage of skilled workers in NH. Can anyone weigh in on what companies in the Nashua, Concord, Manchester area may be a fit if I were to search "embedded software engineer NH"?

I know of L3Harris. That might be right up my alley. Just starting my research. Any leads would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot!!

[flyonpa]

Check Fidelity They have a Big IT operation in Merrimack

[abnfdc]

Optics1 is supposedly in Bedford. I had never heard of them until I made a FTF sale on another forum's classifieds with one of their employees.

I looked up their product portfolio and realized I had hands on time with some of their products.

https://www.optics1.com/

Certainly not as big a company as L3 or Fidelity.

BAE Systems and Raytheon also have a presence in NH.

[elmtree79]

Interesting. Harris is also in the optics business; wonder if they do business with one another.

Excellent leads. Thanks you guys!

[Nonesuch]

DEKA Research & Development would be a fit for an "embedded software engineer".

There are a ton of smaller firms in NH involved in embedded software, too many to list. I know a few with facilities in NH who are hiring, but oddly the job listings themselves show the opportunity as being in NY, PA, etc because there are more people job hunting in tech in those states.

[elmtree79]

Totally forgot about DEKA. I imagine they're about more than just Segways these days.

Remote is a good idea - unless you want to keep "tickets" current.

Although these days remote is looking a whole lot more attractive. Good thought...

[CARas2020]

Try Oracle My hubby works for them and it is remote. But I don't know about fast internet in NH. Good Luck

[Nonesuch]

Originally Posted by CARas2020

Try Oracle My hubby works for them and it is remote.

Oracle closed down the old Dyn offices in Manchester, but still has Oracle NEDC in Nashua and their Burlington, MA office.

Originally Posted by CARas2020

But I don't know about fast internet in NH. Good Luck

Consolidated is running fiber on telephone poles in various populated parts of southern NH, offering gigabit internet in many towns. There is no data cap on Consolidated Fiber Internet service.

I'm in rural southern/central New Hampshire, so until Starlink the best I could do was a couple hundred megabits via Comcast/Xfinity cablemodem.

Biggest downside to terrestrial internet is that about a day into any power outages, the cable would drop and I'd be stuck with cellular/LTE data for work-from-home (then if the power outage lasted more than 3 days, the towers would start dropping offline too). With Starlink I'm usually connected to a ground station in upstate New York or Maine, so it'd take a really big weather even to drive both those offline.