S 107 - AUDIO DSP SPECIALIST

Location: Palo Alto, CA.Position: 6-month Contract to Hire.

ABOUT THE ROLE: We are looking for an experienced Audio DSP Engineer to join our In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) audio development team for electric vehicle platforms. The role will focus on real-time audio signal processing, particularly voice communication / ECNR and audio post-processing. This is a hands-on engineering role. The ideal candidate should be comfortable in developing, integrating, debugging, tuning, and validating audio algorithms on an embedded production platform.

WHAT YOU'LL DO: Development of audio processing stack: Drive the implementation and optimization of the infortainment audio software stack.- Develop and integrate voice communication and voice recognition solutions for IVI (In-vehicle infotainment) platforms.- Work closely with HW engineers and the system integration team to ensure tight integration and that the audio stack meets high-quality standards.- Work closely with QA team to perform comprehensive testing, debugging, and validation.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: ( MUST HAVE)- Audio DSP: Strong hands-on development experience with speech and microphone-array signal processing algorithms. Experience with several of the following components is expected:- Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC)- Adaptive Beamforming: MVDR or similar techniques- Noise Reduction (NR)- Residual Echo Suppression (RES)- Voice Activity Detection (VAD)- Automatic Gain Control (AGC)- Wind noise reduction- Directional of Arrival (DoA) estimation- Speech enhancement- Audio Post-Processing: Hands-on experience developing or integrating real-time audio playback and post-processing pipelines, including:- Audio mixing / routing- Volume / Gain control- Mute / ducking- Channel mapping- Equalization- Audio filtering- Sample rate conversion, etc.- ALSA / Linux Audio: Strong understanding of Linux audio architecture, particulary ALSA- Real-time Audio SW Development experience: Strong C/C++ software development experience with real-time audio processing systems. Experience may include( Good to Have)- Traditional DSP / statistical signal-processing algorithms- Deep Learning / Neural Network based speech enhancement- Hybrid DSP + ML solutionsPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- Commercialization experience: Voice communication and/or Voice recognition features- Automotive / IVI Experience - Strong Plus: Experience developing audio systems for automotive or IVI platforms is highly desirable.- Hands-on experience with DSP Concepts Audio Weaver (AWE) is highly desirable.- Experience with acoustic measurement, tuning, and validation equipment and tools: HATS, HEAD acoustics, Audio Precision