Optimal Engineering sold to Cal. firm

A California company said today it has acquired Optimal Engineering Partners Inc., a Westford-based provider of full lifecycle product engineering services.

The buyer is Symphony Services, a Palo Alto-based provider of product engineering outsourcing services.

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

A spokeswoman said that no jobs at Optimal would be lost and that three Optimal cofounders will become executives at the combined company; Optimal has 130 engineers and 20 support and sales staffers, the spokeswoman said.

Combining Symphony and Optimal improves Symphony's ability to meet the global needs of clients, particularly for those in such highly competitive industries as communications and mobile devices, Symphony president and chief executive Gordon Brooks said in a statement.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)