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
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