Senior Engineer

Role Overview

This position is for a senior-level engineer in Cork, County Cork, Ireland, focused on embedded software development, debugging, and multimedia/audio systems work across Linux-based and related embedded platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• A background of 5 to 8 years in embedded systems development and troubleshooting on ARM or comparable embedded processors/MCU-based SoCs, ideally with Linux as the operating system.
• Hands-on programming experience in C, C++, and Python.

Embedded Systems Experience

• Practical experience building and debugging software for ARM systems running Linux, Zephyr, and DSP environments.
• Solid awareness of how power consumption and performance trade-offs affect embedded platforms, especially ARM Linux and DSP-based systems.
• Experience working with Linux kernel and/or Zephyr internals, including architecture-level work, device driver development, debugging, and upstream contribution.

Multimedia and Audio Experience

• Working knowledge of multimedia frameworks, particularly audio-centric technologies such as PipeWire and ALSA.
• Broad understanding of audio signal processing concepts.
• Familiarity with audio use cases such as playback, recording, voice activation, voice calling, and audio context detection.
• Exposure to standard audio bus protocols including I2S, TDM, and SoundWire.
• Experience developing drivers for audio mixed-signal components such as codecs, speaker amplifiers, and digital microphones.

Open Source Experience

• Interest in contributing to or maintaining established open source projects such as PipeWire, ALSA, Linux, Zephyr, and similar ecosystems.
• Understanding of open source community practices, collaboration, and upstream contribution workflows.
• Experience working through both open source development and product commercialization processes.