Senior Audio Software Engineer

Owl Labs is seeking a Senior Audio Systems Engineer to join our diverse development team. The ideal candidate is a professional audio systems engineer with deep subject-matter expertise in all things audio, including acoustics, audio test, speech transducers, IC components, and signal processing. You see the big picture of how customer-focused requirements influence both hardware and software architecture. You have a passion for end-to-end audio quality, and have the expertise in audio testing to ensure both standards compliance and subjective quality.  Bonus if you have production experience with speech audio conferencing equipment. 

In this role, you will impact some of the company's most important product development goals as you develop the technology that is at the core of Owl Labs' groundbreaking products. You will be both an individual contributor and a technical leader within the larger product development team.

What You'll Do

We are looking for an expert audio engineer who will help us advance our ability to understand and improve upon all aspects of the remote meeting experience.

• Work with product managers and other engineers in order to help define user-level details by providing technical feasibility/difficulty estimates.
• Test product audio performance and features so that they meet required standards, and ensure the audio quality the customer will perceive.
• Provide technical guidance in audio and acoustics for systems-level design, component selection, and troubleshooting.
• Help to design and tune audio processing features that accomplish product-focused, user-level goals.
• Collaborate with your peers to offer your expertise on their projects and well as bring their ideas into yours.
• Work with the SQA team to resolve any audio defects as you take your features to production release.
• Help field technical questions from our customer support team as they help our users have the best experience possible.
• Work on iterative releases, MVP-style, on features that generally take a couple months to develop, not years.

Qualifications

• Post-Graduate Degree in a relevant field (e.g. Acoustics, DSP, Electrical Engineering, etc) or a great portfolio of audio and acoustics work.
• 3 years professional experience designing speech audio devices, like headsets or conferencing equipment.
• 3 years professional experience developing, testing and tuning audio processing algorithms such as sound localization, acoustic echo cancellation, equalization, noise suppression, and de-reverberation
• Experience with audio/acoustics testing and validation on embedded devices
• Strong engineering test & debug skills for complex real-time systems.
• Experience with version control and bug tracking systems.
• Ability and desire to develop with the end-user in mind.
• Proactive and clear communication abilities.
• Appreciation for documentation.
• Co-worker & customer empathy.

The best candidates will have:

• 7 years professional experience developing audio devices.
• Experience with acoustic test systems such as Soundcheck, Head Acoustics ACQUA, etc
• Experience with Audio certification based on external standards
• Proficiency with logic analyzers and oscilloscopes to debug hardware prototypes.
• Proficiency with Matlab and/or Python.
• Experience with audio processing algorithms on embedded DSPs.
• Experience with acoustic measurements and audio conferencing certifications.
• Experience selecting audio components (e.g.,microphones, DACs, DSPs, amplifiers) for large-volume manufacturing.
• Proven creativity in developing for resource-constrained hardware environments.

The best candidates will share examples of:

• Grit & resilience.
• Empathy.
• Leadership and the development of people on their past teams. 
• Problem solving.
• Work ethic.
• Drive.
• Curiosity.
• Teamwork & collaboration with peers/co-workers. 
• A measurable history of performance.
• Self-awareness & coachability.

Owl Labs is over 70% remote and headquarters are based in Boston, MA. This role is an on-site position.