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Audio Firmware Engineer

Hark· Embedded Software
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San Jose, CA$120k - $300kfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Experienced Audio Firmware Engineer to develop and optimize embedded audio solutions on Hark’s next-gen AI device, spanning audio system bring-up, DSP algorithms development, integration and optimization, and deployment of advanced audio/AI features for consumer devices.

Responsibilities

  • Bring up audio processing stack on new hardware, drive implementation and integrations of audio processing pipeline
  • Debug complex audio issues end-to-end using platform logs, working from kernel and DSP traces up through application-level symptoms
  • Partner with the AI team to support audio-driven inference workloads (wake word, ASR, speech enhancement) within latency, power, and memory budgets
  • Collaborate with hardware, acoustics, and product teams from prototype through production to ship audio that feels effortless to users

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional firmware or embedded audio development, ideally on consumer products that have shipped at scale
  • Experience with core Audio DSP algorithms and their implementations, including AEC, Beamforming, NR, AGC, VAD, DoA estimation etc.
  • Experience with post processing pipelines including Audio mixing/routing, Ducking, Channel Mapping, EQ, filtering and sample rate conversion etc.
  • Proficient with C/C++ in resource-constrained, real-time environments
  • Strong hands-on development experience with speech and microphone-array signal processing algorithms

Skills

Required:Audio DSP algorithmsPost-processing pipelinesC/C++
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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