Senior Audio Software Engineer

Owl Labs is seeking a Senior Audio Software Engineer to join our diverse development team. The ideal candidate is a professional software engineer with deep subject-matter expertise in all things audio, including acoustics, signal processing, and audio algorithms. 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 you enjoy cross-functional collaboration across hardware and software teams. 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

On a daily basis, you'll carry out some of the various engineering tasks listed below

We are looking for an expert audio software 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.
• Work independently to design and implement audio processing features that accomplish product-focused, user-level goals.
• Use your deep technical expertise to delight our customers and get them new products and features on time.
• Collaborate with a team of cross-disciplinary engineers while you integrate your algorithms into a resource-constrained computational system that must share processing time with computer vision and machine learning algorithms.
• Test product audio performance and features so that you are proud of what will be tested by the SQA team and confident that it will pass.
• Work with the SQA team to debug your work 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. signal processing, acoustics, physics, or computer science) or a great portfolio of software work in the field.
• 3+ years professional experience designing software for speech audio devices, like headsets, phones or conferencing equipment.
• 3+ years professional experience developing audio processing algorithms such as sound localization, acoustic echo cancellation, equalization, noise suppression, or de-reverberation
• Experience with Android Audio sub-systems
• Experience with audio testing and validation on embedded devices
• Strong debug skills for complex real-time systems.
• Experience with version control (preferably Git) 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 software.
• Track record of technical leadership and mentorship.
• Experience building machine learning models for speech enhancement.
• Proficiency with Matlab and/or Python for audio processing.
• Experience implementing audio processing algorithms on both fixed-point and floating-point DSPs.
• 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 a hybrid company, we are over 40% remote, and our headquarters is based in Boston, MA. This role can be either an on-site or remote position. Please specify in your application.