Senior Embedded DSP Engineer
The Focusrite Group, United Kingdom
Job Description
Senior Embedded DSP Engineer
Based: High Wycombe / Hybrid
Term: Permanent, Full time
Salary: 60,000 - 90,000 pa + excellent benefits
The Role:
Focusrite has a wide range of products, software and hardware, which leverage audio digital signal processing. We're looking for an experienced DSP developer to manage our approach to embedded DSP and help grow, and significantly contribute to, the DSP community within the company.
On a day-to-day basis you will collaborate with other firmware engineers, the DSP platform software engineers, and our product team. This will involve helping to establish a roadmap, develop the infrastructure and practices we need, and coordinate the development of new DSP capabilities.
Your tasks:
- Working with the project teams, oversee the development of embedded DSP code for Novation, Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, engaging with firmware engineers in the wider team as well as undertaking development in key projects.
- Collaborate with the DSP platform software engineers to build generic DSP algorithms for use across the company.
- Build, maintain and communicate the roadmap of work with stakeholders.
- Establish best practices for developing, testing, and benchmarking our DSP code across the team, in collaboration with the software team.
- Work with product teams to agree strategies for reusing IP to speed up time to market but, also identifying where novel development is required.
- Engage in the technical nursery process; suggesting, investigating and reviewing items on the different technical horizons.
- Maintain the CI/CD pipeline in coordination with our Platform team.
- Guide the approach to platform specific implementations and balance trade-offs between optimisation, development time and reuse.
- Mentor firmware engineers interested in improving their DSP skills.
- Contribute to the overall firmware team approach, recruitment, and strategy.
- Engage with other parts of Focusrite group or third parties when the team needs support with specific expertise.
Your profile
- You have good communication skills, able to explain the roadmap to a varied group of stakeholders.
- You have a Bsc / BEng or higher in a relevant field (Computer Science, Software Engineering etc). Alternatively, you have relevant industry experience.
- You have 5+ years of experience working on C/C++ based projects.
- You are proficient with C, C++, Assembly (preferred), CMake and Git best practices.
- You are fully aware of fixed-point vs floating-point implementation constraints and have experience of developing algorithms that use both.
- You practice continuous integration/deployment (we use Circle CI).
- You have experience developing, testing, and benchmarking real time DSP code and porting it between different architectures.
- You have experience of the constraints of embedded software development, including architecture, tools and technologies such as RTOS, embedded Linux, bare metal and FPGAs.
- You are passionate about music and audio technology.
About Us
Focusrite plc is a global music and audio group that develops and markets music technology products. Used by audio professionals and amateur musicians alike, our solutions facilitate the high-quality production of recorded and live sound. Our audio technology brands stand together, seeking to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity ‘we make music easy to make’.
The Focusrite Group trades under eleven established and rapidly growing brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, ADAM Audio, Sequential, Oberheim, Martin Audio, Optimal Audio, Ampify Music, Linea Research and Sonnox. With a high-quality reputation and a rich heritage spanning decades, its brands are category leaders in the music-making industry.
Music technology is an enriching space to work in and we enjoy a Group-wide open-door culture which encourages innovation. This culture, combined with a passion for the inspirational solutions we create, has led to the group winning numerous accolades, including six Queen's Awards, the AIM Company of the Year Award 2021 and regular appearances in 'The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For’.
The Focusrite Group is dedicated to building a great place to work and as an equal opportunity employer we are committed to Diversity and Inclusion. The group mission is to cultivate an equitable culture, internally and externally, where all people feel they are welcome, safe and positively represented, because at Focusrite they truly are. Equally, we recognise the major impact that climate change is having on our world and work every day towards being industry leaders in a carbon neutral f