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Software Engineer, Audio
About Sonos, Inc.
Music lovers are the heart and soul of Sonos. We’re a company created by music lovers, for music lovers. And everything we do — from the products we design to the way we run our business — expresses that passion.
It’s an incredibly exciting time to be at Sonos. In fact, there’s never been a better time in history to be into music — both as a consumer and as a business. Sonos is aggressively launching new award-winning products to make all the music on earth available all over the house. Customers and reviewers alike are raving about our company and our products. And the people who work here are, too.
It takes the best and the brightest to create a revolutionary product like the Sonos Multi-Room Music System. We have experts from every discipline — consumer electronics, software, networking, audio, sales and marketing, and design. And, as our business explodes worldwide, we’re always looking to add more talent to our team — which is where you come in.
Job Title: Software Engineer, Audio
Location: Cambridge, MA/Santa Barbara, CA
Reporting: Manager, Audio Software
Status: Full-time/Regular
Travel: 5% - 15%
For the right individual, Sonos will offer relocation reimbursement to our Cambridge, MA or Santa Barbara, CA offices.
General Summary:
Sonos is using software to redefine what people expect from their home audio system. Far beyond traditional “DSP”, code developed by the Audio group within Sonos’s software team powers multi-zone synchronization over a wireless network, streaming from a huge variety of digital music services, and cutting edge audio enhancement effects that allow us to get great sound from small speakers.
As Software Engineer on the Audio team, you will be responsible for developing and enhancing all of the software that makes Sonos products sound great. You will
• use your knowledge of the design and implementation of digital filters and audio enhancement algorithms to tune and perfect the sound output from Sonos’s integrated speaker products, like the bestselling ZonePlayer S5.
• work closely with the hardware group’s acoustics team to design audio crossover algorithms and room equalization algorithms matched to the hardware design, then implement them in C/C++.
• develop device drivers for new audio hardware; participate in hardware bringup and debug.
• integrate new audio codecs and new streaming protocols.
• enhance Sonos’s audio synchronization algorithms to improve the scalability and accuracy of our multiroom synchronized audio solution.
If you love music, solving challenging software problems and doing things the right way every time, we’d like to talk to you!
Requirements:
• Solid understanding of audio signal processing and software development using C/C++
• Digital IIR and FIR filter design using s-domain and z-domain
• Knowledge of audio algorithms such as widening, bass enhancement, dynamic range compression, and error correction/concealment
• Knowledge of room acoustics effects
• The ability to troubleshoot new hardware when necessary, including use of an oscilloscope
• Experience with analyzing and optimizing signal processing algorithms to reduce memory and computational requirements
Preferred:
• Familiarity with industry standard audio codecs for portable music players, Internet streaming, and home theater
• Experience with software combining audio and TCP/IP networking
• Experience characterizing audio performance using concepts such as THD+N, dynamic range, SNR, etc.
• Familiarity with device drivers and kernel mode programming on UNIX-like operating systems
Sonos® is the leading developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the home. The Sonos Multi-Room Music System is the first, wireless multi-room music system that lets you play all the music you want all over your house – and control it all from the palm of your hand. Sonos liberates the music stored on a computer so it can be enjoyed all over the house. In addition, by partnering with audio services like Audible.com®, Last.fm, Napster®, Pandora®, RadioTime, Rhapsody®, SIRIUS® Internet Radio, and more, Sonos gives music lovers instant, computer-free access to millions of songs, thousands of radio stations, audiobooks, and more. The award-winning Sonos Multi-Room Music System is available at more than 4050 retailers in over 60 countries worldwide; or direct from Sonos at www.sonos.com.
Sonos is a privately-held company, headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA with offices in Cambridge, MA, Hilversum, Netherlands and Penang, Malaysia.
Please submit your resume and cover letter at http://jobs.sonos.com/