Senior Audio Researcher, Advanced Technology
- Full-Time
- Santa Barbara, CA
- Sonos, Inc
- Posted 3 years ago – Accepting applications
Job Description
- Apply your scientific knowledge to develop technologies from early concepts to tangible and demonstrable realisation.
- Design, develop, and evaluate methods for analysing, processing, and rendering audio and music.
- Identify the emerging opportunities presented by new methods and developments in the field, and communicate them to internal stakeholders and colleagues.
- Clearly communicate research findings to stakeholders both within and outside of the Advanced Technology group via verbal, written, and practical demonstrations.
- Collaborate closely with and influence the larger product development organization.
- Generate and contribute to IP and related technology assets.
- PhD in audio, acoustics, computer science for audio, electronic engineering, physics, or equivalent industry experience
- Strong knowledge of digital signal processing for audio or music.
- Knowledge of one or more of the following areas applied to audio or music: machine learning, music information retrieval, deep learning, statistical modelling, data science
- Drive to deliver impactful research at the intersection of audio processing, acoustics, statistical learning, audio perception, and human-computer interaction.
- Ability to clearly communicate, present, and disseminate research findings to both specialist and general audiences.
- Comfortable working with teams across multiple geographies and time zones.
- Applicants should be authorized to work in the USA or UK/EU
- Musical background (playing, producing, engineering).
- Experience designing and conducting experiments on audio perception, psychology, cognitive neuroscience.
- Proficiency in Python and experience using the core scientific computing and machine learning libraries (e.g. NumPy, SciPy, ScikitLearn, Tensorflow, Keras).
- Experience in sourcing, cleaning, visualising, and modelling data.
- Experience using cloud based computing for analysing and processing large datasets (e.g. AWS, GCP).
- Experience in real-time audio processing.
- Experience in C/C++ and Matlab.
- Experience in developing technologies for audio reproduction systems.
- Audio related publications in one or more of the following: ICASSP, NeurIPS, ICML, Interspeech, JASA, ISMIR, EUSIPCO, WASPAA, CHI.