Applied Scientist - Audio

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

The Role:

We are looking for a passionate, talented and inventive Applied Scientist - Audio to join our team. As part of the larger technology team working on new consumer technology, your work will have a large impact to hardware, internal software developers, ecosystem, and ultimately the lives of Amazon customers. You must love high quality signal processing, enjoy adjusting codecs, optimizing audio frameworks, and have a feel for what a good consumer experience should sound like.
In this role, you will:
· Engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer products
· Work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team, and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and test
· Development of new audio and speech processing algorithms
· Optimization and port to different platforms of audio and speech processing algorithms with focus in Voice Communication and Speech Recognition
· Integrate vendor hardware and software stacks
· Be able, and willing, to multi-task and learn new technologies quickly
· Be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
· 1+ years of development experience in an R&D capacity
· Experience with Speech Recognition
· Experience of digital signal processing techniques related to audio analysis and processing
· Experience with creating fundamentally new signal processing technologies
· Experience with Linux audio capture and real time processing
· Experience with C/C++ language and Matlab programming
· Experience working in a software development team, including software version control
· Experience with OpenMAX and/or ALSA