Engineer Associate Staff, Digital Signal Processing
Shure Incorporated2 years ago
Niles, IL, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$130k - $208k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, development, optimization, and validation of real-time DSP and machine learning solutions for microphone array products.
- Plan projects by defining scope, estimating effort, identifying resources, and driving execution toward milestones.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues involving DSP, audio performance, embedded implementation, and system integration.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance through design reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions.
- Collaborate with embedded software, hardware, acoustics, systems, test, product management, and user experience teams.
- Implement and integrate low-latency signal-processing solutions into complex processing chains and embedded platforms.
- Define signal-processing requirements, performance metrics, architectural options, and implementation strategies.
- Evaluate DSP and ML/AI outcomes, conduct listening tests, and validate algorithm and system performance.
- Identify customer use cases, optimize platform solutions, contribute to intellectual property, and promote innovation.
- Follow software engineering practices and maintain documentation for system and algorithm design, implementation, and testing.
- Track advances in DSP, audio processing, embedded systems, and machine learning and recommend applicable technologies.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field with at least 8 years of professional experience; alternatively, 6 years with a master’s degree or 3 years with a PhD.
- Extensive hands-on knowledge of advanced DSP theory and experience designing, implementing, testing, and optimizing real-time audio signal-processing algorithms.
- Strong C++ programming skills, including object-oriented design and scalable, maintainable code development.
- Experience prototyping algorithms with Python or MATLAB and deploying DSP algorithms on embedded platforms.
- Strong understanding of real-time embedded constraints including latency, memory, CPU utilization, and processing deadlines.
- Preferred experience with audio or speech DSP, microphone arrays, beamforming, acoustic echo cancellation, dereverberation, noise suppression, automatic gain control, and speech enhancement.
- Experience with conferencing audio, embedded Linux on multi-core ARM, multithreaded real-time applications, and machine learning model deployment for real-time audio.
- Experience with version control, issue tracking, continuous integration, agile development, audio interfaces, network audio protocols, and audio-system validation.
- Knowledge of machine learning or artificial intelligence algorithm implementation, integration, or creation, plus low-latency embedded-friendly development.
- Experience in audio engineering, digital audio workstations, recording, or other audio production.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work full-time in the United States.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement based out of Shure’s Niles, Illinois headquarters.
- Competitive rewards and benefits for eligible full-time and part-time Associates working 24 or more hours per week.
- Benefits include healthcare, mental health support, retirement savings plans, paid time off, employee discounts, professional development, work-life balance initiatives, recognition programs, and volunteering opportunities.
- Eligible position may participate in an incentive pay program.
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