Audio Software Engineer

What You’ll Work On

• Develop and optimize real-time audio signal processing pipelines, including AEC (Acoustic Echo Cancellation), ANC (Active Noise Cancellation), and beamforming.

• Implement DSP algorithms for noise cancellation, echo suppression, and spatial audio processing.

• Work with microphone arrays and speaker tuning to improve voice and sound quality.

• Optimize performance and power consumption for various processing architectures.

• Implement platform-specific DSP solutions for RTOS and Linux environments.

• Collaborate with hardware and software teams to integrate and test audio processing solutions.

What We’re Looking For

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

• 5+ years of experience in real-time DSP development for audio applications.

• Proficiency in C, C++, and MATLAB/Python for DSP development.

• Experience with embedded audio processing and DSP frameworks.

• Strong knowledge of AEC, ANC, beamforming, and signal processing techniques.

• Experience optimizing DSP performance and power efficiency on various hardware platforms.

• Familiarity with RTOS and Linux-based DSP implementations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI-driven audio processing techniques.

• Knowledge of voice recognition and sound localization.

• Familiarity with audio codecs, acoustic simulations, and sound modeling tools.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

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