Audio Consultant Engineer - Linux Audio

What You'll Actually Do
  • Upstream & Community Participation: Contribute to and collaborate with WirePlumber, PipeWire, and ALSA upstream communities

  • Real-World Impact: Design, integrate, and ship embedded Linux audio systems that work reliably in real-world products

  • Deep Technical Work: Implement and debug PipeWire + WirePlumber stacks, including ALSA, DSPs, and system-level interactions

  • Customer Collaboration: Work directly with customer teams to translate requirements into robust audio architectures and solutions

  • Breadth When Needed: Support adjacent areas like Bluetooth audio and Linux audio tooling when required (pw-cli, pw-top, alsa-utils, tracing frameworks) to diagnose and resolve issues efficiently

  • Be a Technical Advisor: Explain complex audio architecture decisions to product teams, provide honest assessments of what is and isn't possible and build trust through transparent communication

What We're Looking For

Required:

  • 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 complex issues across multiple layers of a Linux system

  • Comfortable working directly with customers in a consulting or support capacity

  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

Nice to Have:

  • 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-source projects

  • Experience with embedded or real-time Linux systems

Job Details

Company
MicroTECH Global Ltd
Location
Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£99,000 - £100,000 per annum
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