One software development company is create many jobs in Austin Texas.

Environmental Systems Corporation is looking to hire between 100 and 150 employees at the company's new office in Austin.

ESC is hiring employees in sales, engineering, software testing, and more at its recently-opened office at 7000 N. Mopac. The company chose Austin over several other cities.

"After researching multiple cities across the nation, we are very excited to announce the opening of our office in Austin," ESC President Jack Missimer said. "Austin stood out to us as the clear choice for ESC based on the rigorous analysis from our city site selection process. Austin embodies many of the values upon which ESC was founded, plus it also has a strong technology and software community, and commitment to the environment.

"As we expand and continue to build products and services that make our planet and the communities in which we operate better places to live, we look forward to contributing to Austin and taking advantage of all that it has to offer," he continued. "The great thing is, our customers will benefit from our Austin office as we benefit from Austin's access to abundant software talent, which will strengthen our resource pool."

ESC is a Tennessee-based environmental compliance software development company that helps organizations document and report clean air and environmental regulations compliance.

The company, which was founded 40 years ago, is a subsidiary of Churchill Industries. ESC's new jobs will help the Austin area continue it's recovery.

During August, the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos area's unemployment rate decreased from 7.3 percent to 7.2 percent, keeping it well below the national average at the time of 9.6 percent.

The Austin area had a total non-farm employment of 769,200 workers during August, which is up from 765,400 workers during July and a 2.5 percent increase from last year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.