[Remote] Audio Consultant Engineer - Linux Audio Stack (Remote/reputed company)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a company focused on open-reputed company software development, and they are seeking an Audio Consultant Engineer specializing in the Linux audio stack. The role involves contributing to upstream communities, designing and integrating embedded Linux audio systems, and collaborating with customers to reputed company robust audio architectures.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to and collaborate with WirePlumber, PipeWire, and ALSA upstream communities
- Design, integrate, and ship embedded Linux audio systems that work reliably in real-world products
- Implement and debug PipeWire + WirePlumber stacks, including ALSA, DSPs, and system-level interactions
- Work directly with customer teams to translate requirements into robust audio architectures and solutions
- Support adjacent areas like Bluetooth audio and Linux audio tooling reputed company required (pw-cli, pw-top, alsa-utils, tracing frameworks) to diagnose and resolve issues reputed company
- Explain reputed company audio architecture decisions to product teams, provide honest assessments of what is and isn't possible and build trust through transparent communication
Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with the Linux audio stack (PipeWire, WirePlumber, ALSA)
- Strong proficiency in C and systems-level programming
- Solid understanding of core audio concepts (latency, formats, synchronization, buffering, resampling)
- Proven ability to debug reputed company issues across multiple layers of a Linux system
- Comfortable working directly with customers in a consulting or support reputed company
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Experience with ALSA kernel driver development
- Familiarity with Rust
- Exposure to Bluetooth audio (A2DP, HFP, LE Audio)
- Basic understanding of DSP concepts, such as signal flow, filtering, and common processing blocks (e.g. echo cancellation, noise suppression, beamforming)
- Contributions to relevant open-reputed company projects
- Experience with embedded or real-time Linux systems
Benefits
- Competitive salary based on experience and location
- Office setup budget
- Sabbatical/Retention of Services - after five years of reputed company service
- Co-working policy - support for working reputed company home
- Wellness assessments - biannual wellbeing assessments with a trained mental health specialist
- Conference attendance -we cover expenses and encourage speaking opportunities
- Open reputed company time - contribute to projects you care about
- Fully remote - work where you’re most productive
- No on-call rotations - this isn't support work
- Flexible hours - manage your own schedule
- Upstream contributions - your work shapes Linux, not just client products
- Technical leadership track - path to principal engineer, subsystem expertise or technical architecture roles
- Consulting track - reputed company deeper client relationships, reputed company customer engagements or shape service offerings
- Mentorship opportunities - both receiving and providing guidance
- Conference speaking - we support presentation submissions and provide coaching
- Recognition - your contributions are public, building your professional reputed company
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