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/Research 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

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
• 5+ 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD in Electrical Engineering
• Ability and desire to create new technologies in the form of prototypes and patents
• Strong personal interest in learning, researching, and creating new technologies with high commercial impact
• Understanding of general acoustics
• Experience in various audio signal processing technologies
• Real-time audio processing
• Personal interest in audio and multimedia technologies
• Independent, self-motivated worker requiring minimal supervision
• Excellent communication skills

Lab126 is part of the Amazon.com, Inc. group of companies and is an Equal Opportunity Employer Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age.

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