Hark

Technology

AudioFirmwareEngineer

$120–300k San Jose, California, United States FULL TIME
The Brief

“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.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

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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