National
Instruments
Developer of hardware
for engineers and scientists.
Headquarters:
11500 N Mopac Expwy
Austin, TX 78759
Employees: 4,600
CEO: Dr. James Truchard
Stock Symbol: NATI
Website:
http://www.ni.com
Career Site
National Instruments is a technology pioneer and industry leader
in virtual instrumentation, delivering today's most advanced
technologies for test, control, and design. For the past 30 years,
engineers and scientists in hundreds of industries have used
flexible, high-performance NI products to create reliable, user-defined
systems. With graphical programming software and modular, open
hardware, NI has redefined how engineers work throughout the
entire product design cycle, resulting in reduced time to marketing
and lower development costs.
NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf
software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware,
and sells to a broad base of more than 25,000 different companies
worldwide, with no one customer representing more than 3 percent
of revenue and no one industry representing more than 10 percent
of revenue.
National Instruments was named one of the
Best Companies to Work for in America by Fortune magazine in
2008 for the ninth consecutive year.
NI has operations in 40 countries.
The company reported record 2007 revenue
of $740 million and net income of $107 million.
History
In 1976, work on the first product begins
in the garage of NI President, CEO, and Cofounder, Dr. James
Truchard in Austin, TX. Truchard would join the company as a
full-time employee in 1979.
NI announces LabVIEW in 1986, the award-winning
graphical development software package that revolutionizes the
way engineers and scientists work
Benefits
Our medical, dental, and employee vision
programs are comprehensive yet easy to understand and use. We
provide the NI Medical Plan for eligible employees at minimal
cost and keep the cost for the family very low. The NI Medical
Plan lets you select any health care provider in the US, with
some great incentives for choosing a provider that is part of
the plan's extensive network. These incentives include no deductible,
no claims forms, and paying 100% of hospital expenses. The NI
Dental Plan is offered at a low cost for employee and family
coverage. This plan provides comprehensive care for dental services
from preventive care to children's orthodontia.
To round out the benefits program, other
benefits include life insurance, dependent life insurance, and
long-term disability. And you can plan for your future with the
401(k) and employee stock purchase plans.
National Instruments knows that a sound
financial strategy is key to to peace of mind. It's also highly
personal. That's why you'll find options that will let you create
the best one for you. How about a 401(k) Plan, where you can
defer a percentage of your salary on a pre-tax basis? (Plus,
National Instruments will match 50 cents of every dollar, up
to a total of three percent.) Or diversified investment options
for your money? Loan provisions for short-term needs? We've got
them all. And get this: an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
with payroll options lets you purchase stock at 85 percent of
the closing fair-market value. And other options allow you to
defer pretax income to cover out-of-pocket health-care and dependent
care costs.
National Instruments also offers an on-site
fitness center at the MoPac facility, up to $2,000 for adoption
assistance, vacation, holiday and sick leave, and an especially
popular gifts program that matches your charitable contributions
up to $1,000 a year. In addition, National Instruments offers
tuition assistance for qualified work-related courses to provide
you with the ability to ensure that your career at National Instruments
will be successful. Finally, National Instruments offers the
Care24 employee assistance program to assist employees in times
of personal crisis.
Updated August 6, 2008
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