Senior Embedded Systems Engineer (Audio)

About Inspiren 

Inspiren offers the most complete and connected ecosystem in senior living. Founded by Michael Wang a former Green Beret turned cardiothoracic nurse Inspiren proves that compassionate care and technology can coexist - bringing peace of mind to residents families and staff.

Our integrated solutions seamlessly fit into existing workflows capturing everything happening within a community. Backed by nurse specialists and powerful analytics we provide the data operators need to make informed clinical and operational decisions - driving efficiency profitability and better care outcomes.

We are seeking a Senior Embedded Systems Engineer with a strong background in real-time audio to lead the development of our 2-way communication dictation and high-fidelity audio communication platform. If you’ve spent your career at the intersection of Linux and signal processing battling jitter buffers optimizing GStreamer pipelines and navigating the complexities of NAT traversal we would like to hear from you.

This is a hands-on engineering role with meaningful system design work. You will ship features while also strengthening the foundation those features depend on: modular boundaries explicit contracts and automated testing and validation.

• Architect & Implement: Design a robust two-way audio solution for embedded Linux platforms.
• Pipeline Mastery: Leverage ALSA to develop implement and optimize GStreamer plugins and pipelines for low-latency on-device processing encoding decoding. 
• Connectivity & Traversal: Implement and support for WebRTC and ensure seamless connectivity through the use of ICE/ STUN/ TURN protocols in complex enterprise networks.
• Performance Tuning: Profile CPU and memory usage and optimize audio algorithms (AEC AGC Noise Suppression) for ARM-based SoC architectures.
• Lead Embedded Systems Projects: Oversee the end-to-end development and performance optimization of firmware for a variety of both microprocessors and microcontrollers.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with hardware application ML and platform engineers Product Managers key-stakeholders and our JDM partners to define product and system requirements.
• Mentor Innovate and Optimize: Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies. Introduce new methodologies and technologies to both enhance performance and meet design specifications and help your team grow. Provide deep technical expertise and support in embedded systems development testing and validation across the product lifecycle.
• Ensure Quality Reliability and Compliance: Leverage your experience making great technical design decisions lead decision-making on prototyping options conduct testing and validate embedded system performance and reliability against requirements including security environmental and accelerated testing. Ensure all embedded software meets regulatory standards and industry best practices. Set quality and reliability specifications.
• Solve Problems: Troubleshoot and diagnose complex real-world issues - then recommend and implement effective solutions in a timely manner.

• Educational Background: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Embedded Systems Computer Engineering Computer Science or a related engineering field.
• Experience: 7+ years of hands-on experience across the embedded landscape including Bare-metal and RTOS development for microcontrollers and Embedded Linux for microprocessor-based systems.
• Real-Time Audio: Deep understanding of digital audio fundamentals (PCM sample rates bit-depth) compression standards (Opus G.711 AAC) and Linux (ALSA PipeWire GStreamer).
• Networking Protocol Guru: Proven expertise in VoIP architectures and the WebRTC ecosystem with the ability to explain the nuances of NAT traversal firewall punch-through and ICE in your sleep.
• Programming Proficiency: Proficiency in embedded development coupled with robust analysis and debugging capabilities utilizing tools (Coverity Valgrind GDB) and methodologies (SWD JTAG).
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential for thriving in our fast-paced remote-first dynamic environment where adapting to changing priorities is key. Start-up experience is a plus!

• The annual salary for this role is $180000 - $200000 + equity + benefits (including medical dental and vision) 
• Flexible PTO
• Location: Remote US or Canada. NYC preferred. 
• Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender perception or identity national origin age marital status protected veteran status or disability status.

At Inspiren we are committed to fair transparent and equitable compensation. We know that every candidate brings a unique combination of experience skills and perspectives and we take these factors into account when determining pay. While compensation may vary depending on your background role and location we are proud to offer a competitive base salary and total benefits package alongside eligibility for equity awards in the form of stock options.

We believe great work deserves great rewards. Our compensation and benefits are designed to recognize your contributions and reflect the standards of leading organizations in our field.

Your recruiter will be happy to walk you through the full compensation package including what your total pay could look like so you have a clear picture of both the immediate and long-term value of joining our team.

What We Do

Inspiren offers the most complete and connected ecosystem in senior living. Founded by Michael Wang a former Green Beret turned cardiothoracic nurse Inspiren proves that compassionate care and technology can coexist - bringing peace of mind to residents families and staff.Our integrated solutions seamlessly fit into existing workflows capturing everything happening within a community. Backed by nurse specialists and powerful analytics we provide the data operators need to make informed clinical and operational decisions - driving efficiency profitability and better care outcomes.

Why Work With Us

Customers describe working with us as a partnership not a vendor relationship. We send people on-site to train. We listen to what customers need and put it on the roadmap. That's the culture internally too — high ownership high accountability and genuinely caring about outcomes for residents.

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