Hark
Technology
AudioFirmwareEngineer
“Audio Firmware Engineer at Hark. Skills: Audio Firmware, Embedded Audio, Android Audio, DSP Integration. Bring up audio on new hardware. Integrate low-level platform”
Industry & Context.
Debugging; Troubleshooting
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3+ years firmware development, 3+ years embedded audio development, Proficient with C/C++, Familiar with Android audio architecture, Hands-on experience with audio tooling, Comfort working across full audio stack, Experience debugging audio issues, Experience working with hardware engineers, Experience reading schematics
Nice to Have
Experience on consumer products, Experience in resource-constrained environments, Experience in real-time environments, Experience with Audio HAL, Experience with AudioFlinger, Experience with Audio Policy Manager, Experience with TinyALSA/ALSA interfaces, Experience with DSP firmware, Experience with kernel drivers, Experience with platform logs, Experience with DSP traces, Working knowledge of audio processing algorithms, Experience with dynamic range control, Experience with echo cancellation, Experience with noise suppression, Experience with beamforming, DSP optimization experience, Experience with fixed-point development, Experience with SIMD, Experience with VLIW, Experience tuning audio quality, Experience validating behavior, Experience deploying machine learning models, Experience with audio models on DSP, Experience with audio models on NPU, Experience shipping voice-first products, Experience shipping far-field audio products
What You'll Do.
Bring up audio on new hardware
Integrate low-level platform
Design audio use cases
Implement audio use cases
Manage audio use cases
Integrate audio paths
Debug complex audio issues
Support audio-driven inference workloads
Collaborate with hardware teams
Collaborate with acoustics teams
Collaborate with product teams
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
AI team; Hardware teams; Acoustics teams; Product teams
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