Job 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 Senior Research Scientist - Audio to join our team. 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
- Be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment
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Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
- 7+ years of development experience in an R&D capacity
- Experience with Speech Recognition
- Knowledge of digital signal processing techniques related to audio analysis and processing
- Experience with creating fundamentally new signal processing technologies
- Understanding of general acoustics
- Experience with Linux audio capture and real time processing
- C/C++ language and Matlab programming
- Experience with working in a software development team, including software version control
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree or 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
- 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-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation
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