Audio Consultant Engineer – Linux Audio job at Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom Full Time

• Upstream & Community Participation: Contribute to and collaborate with WirePlumber, PipeWire, and ALSA upstream communities

• Real-World Impact: Design, integrate, and ship embedded Linux audio systems that work reliably in real-world products

• Deep Technical Work: Implement and debug PipeWire + WirePlumber stacks, including ALSA, DSPs, and system-level interactions

• Customer Collaboration: Work directly with customer teams to translate requirements into robust audio architectures and solutions

• Breadth When Needed: Support adjacent areas like Bluetooth audio and Linux audio tooling when required (pw-cli, pw-top, alsa-utils, tracing frameworks) to diagnose and resolve issues efficiently

• Be a Technical Advisor: Explain complex audio architecture decisions to product teams, provide honest assessments of what is and isn’t possible and build trust through transparent communication

What We’re Looking For

Required:

• Strong hands-on experience with the Linux audio stack (PipeWire, WirePlumber, ALSA)

• Strong proficiency in C and systems-level programming

• Solid understanding of core audio concepts (latency, formats, synchronization, buffering, resampling)

• Proven ability to debug complex issues across multiple layers of a Linux system

• Comfortable working directly with customers in a consulting or support capacity

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

Nice to Have:

• Experience with ALSA kernel driver development

• Familiarity with Rust

• Exposure to Bluetooth audio (A2DP, HFP, LE Audio)

• Basic understanding of DSP concepts, such as signal flow, filtering, and common processing blocks (e.g. echo cancellation, noise suppression, beamforming)

• Contributions to relevant open-source projects

• Experience with embedded or real-time Linux systems