Systems Architect – Audio Technology

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Oversee the complete system architecture for sophisticated audio systems

• Convert customer, product, and technological requirements into clear system architectures

• Establish system decomposition, interfaces, data flows, functional boundaries, and resource allocation

• Manage trade-offs among hardware, software, DSP, acoustics, connectivity, sensing, power, compute, performance, and cost

• Proactively identify cross-domain risks and dependencies and implement system-level solutions

• Utilize modeling, simulation, prototyping, and test data to assess architectural alternatives

• Create reusable architectures and reference solutions applicable across various applications

• Offer Principal-level technical guidance throughout Audio Technology, suppliers, and technology partners

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience

• Extensive experience in developing and architecting complex multidisciplinary systems

• Proven experience in leading end-to-end architecture for both hardware and software

• Strong grasp of embedded systems, including the interactions between hardware, software, firmware, signal processing, and physical limitations

• Experience in defining system architectures, interfaces, functional decomposition, requirements, and technical trade-offs

• Proven capability to collaborate across engineering disciplines and enhance the overall system

• Strong technical leadership and communication abilities, including the capacity to influence without direct authority

• Preferred: Advanced degree in Systems Engineering or a related technical field

• Preferred: Experience in architecting consumer audio, automotive audio, or other intricate embedded systems

• Preferred: In-depth knowledge of digital audio signal processing, acoustics, and audio system architectures

• Preferred: Familiarity with embedded processors, SoCs, DSPs, real-time operating systems, and Linux-based systems

• Preferred: Experience with distributed systems, connectivity, sensing, or hardware/software co-design

• Preferred: Experience in developing reusable platforms, reference architectures, SDKs, frameworks, or technology building blocks

• Preferred: Experience collaborating with semiconductor vendors, suppliers, automotive partners, or third-party integrators

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus programs

• Comprehensive health and welfare benefits

• 401(k) plan

• Exclusive perks designed to support your wellbeing

• Generous employee discount

• Compensation tailored to skills, experience, education, and location