9 hours ago
Base Salary
$185k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect audio-processing pipelines at the embedded-system level.
- Design, implement, integrate, validate, adapt, and tune DSP algorithms for embedded real-time platforms.
- Provide subject-matter expertise and technical guidance on audio and signal-processing algorithms across electrical, mechanical, industrial design, and software teams.
- Research, specify, select, and characterize electroacoustic components including microphones and speakers.
- Conduct prototype builds, hardware bring-up, profiling, optimization, simulation, and audio-subsystem design iterations.
- Design manufacturing test fixtures and production test plans, and perform yield analysis and test-to-spec validation.
- Manage external audio and acoustics consultants, define statements of work, and integrate third-party acoustic design inputs.
- Partner with vendors on testing and production activities.
- Collaborate with engineering, systems, software, and product management teams.
- Mentor engineers and lead technical design or architecture efforts.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 5 years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- At least 5 years of leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems.
- At least 7 years of developing DSP algorithms for embedded or real-time systems.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Proficiency in C/C++ and Python or MATLAB for signal-processing algorithm development.
- Experience selecting and characterizing microphones and speakers.
- Deep knowledge of time/frequency duality, discrete-time signal processing, and fixed- and floating-point implementation.
- Experience with ML architecture design, data analysis, and training or evaluation methodologies for audio systems.
- Experience with board bring-up, embedded-system debugging, profiling, optimization, simulation, manufacturing test fixture design, production test plans, yield analysis, and test-to-spec validation.
- Experience using audio lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, power analyzers, and motor test benches.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Audio/Acoustics, or a related field.
- Preferred: experience across the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: familiarity with mechanical integration of electroacoustic components.
- Preferred: experience with signal detection and estimation, spatial audio, direction-of-arrival estimation, acoustic event detection, keyword spotting, or ML for embedded systems.
- Ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams at all organizational levels.
Benefits
- Amazon offers health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and supplemental life plan options.
- Benefits include an employee assistance program, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- The position is based in New York, New York, USA.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.