Firmware Developer, Audio
Corsair Components, Inc.1 day ago
Remote, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Develop audio firmware and provide task planning, technical guidance, project tracking, and technical direction.
- Own firmware architecture for audio systems in gaming peripheral products.
- Develop and oversee USB, Bluetooth, and 2.4 GHz wireless audio protocols, DSP control, codecs, and latency optimization.
- Collaborate with hardware and acoustic teams on system bring-up, tuning, and validation.
- Drive firmware quality through code reviews, debugging, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Track and report development progress, risks, and trade-offs to project managers, product teams, and executive stakeholders.
- Generate firmware requirements documents and test protocols.
- Coordinate with Validation to define test strategies, validation criteria, and issue-triage processes.
- Ensure on-time delivery aligned with NPI schedules and milestone commitments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of embedded firmware development experience, including at least 3 years in a technical leadership or management role.
- Strong audio firmware experience for consumer or gaming devices, including USB Audio, Bluetooth Audio, and wireless audio systems.
- Experience with MCUs/SoCs, RTOS, DSPs, and low-level driver development.
- Understanding of sampling, latency, synchronization, echo cancellation, and noise processing.
- Ability to manage multiple project priorities in a fast-paced consumer electronics environment.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills for global collaboration.
- Gaming peripheral industry experience is highly preferred.
- Experience with embedded CI/CD, such as Jenkins or GitLab CI.
- Familiarity with power profiling tools and energy-aware design.
Tech Stack
GitLab CI/CDJenkins
Categories
About Corsair Components, Inc.
Corsair designs and sells PC components and peripherals—memory, power supplies, cases, cooling, keyboards, mice—and streaming gear under brands such as Elgato, SCUF Gaming, ORIGIN PC, and Drop. Its products target PC gamers and content creators, sold through retail, e-commerce, and system integrators, with companion software like iCUE and Stream Deck. Founded in 1994, Corsair is headquartered in Milpitas, California and trades on NASDAQ as CRSR.