Inspiren - Senior Embedded Systems Engineer (Audio)
Requirements
• Educational Background: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Embedded Systems, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related engineering field. • Educational Background • Experience: 7+ years of hands-on experience across the embedded landscape, including Bare-metal and RTOS development for microcontrollers, and Embedded Linux for microprocessor-based systems. • Real-Time Audio: Deep understanding of digital audio fundamentals (PCM, sample rates, bit-depth), compression standards (Opus, G.711, AAC), and Linux (ALSA, PipeWire, GStreamer). • Real-Time Audio: • Networking Protocol Guru: Proven expertise in VoIP architectures and the WebRTC ecosystem with the ability to explain the nuances of NAT traversal, firewall punch-through, and ICE in your sleep. • Networking Protocol Guru: • Programming Proficiency: Proficiency in embedded development, coupled with robust analysis and debugging capabilities utilizing tools (Coverity, Valgrind, GDB) and methodologies (SWD, JTAG). • Programming Proficiency: • Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential for thriving in our fast-paced, remote-first, dynamic environment, where adapting to changing priorities is key. Start-up experience is a plus! • Communication: • Details • Details • The annual salary for this role is $180,000 - $200,000 + equity + benefits (including medical, dental, and vision) • Location: Remote, US or Canada. NYC preferred.
Responsibilities
• Architect & Implement: Design a robust, two-way audio solution for embedded Linux platforms. • Architect & Implement • Pipeline Mastery: Leverage ALSA to develop, implement, and optimize GStreamer plugins and pipelines for low-latency on-device processing, encoding, decoding. • Pipeline Mastery: • Connectivity & Traversal: Implement and support for WebRTC and ensure seamless connectivity through the use of ICE/ STUN/ TURN protocols in complex enterprise networks. • Connectivity & Traversal • Performance Tuning: Profile CPU and memory usage and optimize audio algorithms (AEC, AGC, Noise Suppression) for ARM-based SoC architectures. • Performance Tuning: • Lead Embedded Systems Projects: Oversee the end-to-end development and performance optimization of firmware for a variety of both microprocessors and microcontrollers. • Lead Embedded Systems Projects: • Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with hardware, application, ML, and platform engineers, Product Managers, key-stakeholders, and our JDM partners to define product and system requirements. • Collaborate Cross-Functionally: • Mentor, Innovate, and Optimize: Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies. Introduce new methodologies and technologies to both enhance performance and meet design specifications, and help your team grow. Provide deep technical expertise and support in embedded systems development, testing, and validation across the product lifecycle. • Mentor, Innovate, and Optimize: • Ensure Quality, Reliability, and Compliance: Leverage your experience making great technical design decisions, lead decision-making on prototyping options, conduct testing, and validate embedded system performance and reliability against requirements, including security, environmental, and accelerated testing. Ensure all embedded software meets regulatory standards and industry best practices. Set quality and reliability specifications. • Ensure Quality, Reliability, and Compliance: • Solve Problems: Troubleshoot and diagnose complex, real-world issues - then recommend and implement effective solutions in a timely manner. • Solve Problems:
Benefits
• At Inspiren, we are committed to fair, transparent, and equitable compensation. We know that every candidate brings a unique combination of experience, skills, and perspectives, and we take these factors into account when determining pay. While compensation may vary depending on your background, role, and location, we are proud to offer a competitive base salary and total benefits package, alongside eligibility for equity awards in the form of stock options. • We believe great work deserves great rewards. Our compensation and benefits are designed to recognize your contributions and reflect the standards of leading organizations in our field. • Your recruiter will be happy to walk you through the full compensation package, including what your total pay could look like, so you have a clear picture of both the immediate and long-term value of joining our team.
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