Audio DSP Engineer

Job Opportunity: Audio DSP Engineer

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Job Type: Full-Time

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Audio DSP Engineer to support In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) audio development for electric vehicle platforms. The role focuses on real-time audio signal processing, voice communication, ECNR, and audio post-processing on embedded production platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, integrate, debug, tune, and validate real-time audio DSP algorithms.
• Develop voice communication and voice recognition solutions for IVI systems.
• Work on AEC, Beamforming/MVDR, Noise Reduction, RES, VAD, AGC, DoA, and speech enhancement.
• Develop and integrate audio post-processing including mixing, routing, gain/volume control, mute/ducking, channel mapping, EQ, filtering, and sample-rate conversion.
• Integrate and optimize audio software on Linux/ALSA-based embedded platforms.
• Work closely with hardware, system integration, and QA teams for audio validation and debugging.
• Support acoustic tuning, performance optimization, and production-level validation.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Audio DSP / Speech Signal Processing.
• Strong C/C++ development experience for real-time embedded audio systems.
• Strong knowledge of Linux Audio / ALSA.
• Experience with Python and MATLAB.
• Experience with Audio Weaver (DSP Concepts AWE) is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of traditional DSP, statistical signal processing, ML/DL-based speech enhancement, or hybrid DSP/ML solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Automotive / IVI audio development experience.
• Commercial experience with voice communication or voice recognition features.
• Experience with HATS, HEAD acoustics, Audio Precision, or similar acoustic measurement tools.
• Experience with microphone-array processing and acoustic tuning.