Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Sonos
$134-154.1k
Wireless audio experience company
Job no longer available
Wireless audio experience company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$134-154.1k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide music lovers with the tools to enjoy their favourite sounds anywhere, any time.
Role
Who you are
- Deep understanding in C and C++ programming for a Linux runtime environment
- Able to read and write simple scripts in common languages, Bash, Python, etc
- 5+ years of real-time embedded software engineering experience in a multi-threaded Linux environment
- Experience with benchmarking algorithm performance on embedded systems using software and hardware techniques
- Experience with telemetry data to define and analyze system performance
- Experience with handling audio over wireless network traffic and understanding timing and latency constraints
- Writing developer tests using google test or another similar testing framework
- Demonstrated ability to design, develop, document and test portable and maintainable code that is processor-, architecture- and OS-agnostic
- Thorough understanding of unit testing and design-for-testability strategies
- Understanding of streaming multichannel lossy and lossless audio compression formats such as MPEG, AAC, Opus, FLAC and Dolby Atmos is a plus but not required
- Highly proficient in the use of common source code control and defect tracking systems (Jira, Git, Perforce)
What the job involves
- As an Embedded Software Engineer working as a member of the CoreOS Team, you will be part of the team responsible for the audio distribution and processing software at the heart of all Sonos products.
- You are a highly skilled embedded software engineer that thrives in a new product development environment and you are passionate about achieving a high performance system.
- You will be responsible for applying solid software engineering design patterns and best practices needed to evolve and expand the core codebase to deliver new ideas and technical innovations into products that continue to delight our customers and set the satisfaction bar higher.
- You will be a member of a team that is setting new standards for the audio industry and reshaping the way consumers engage with music.
- You will work independently as well as with a team of industry leading innovators in other engineering fields such as acoustics, mechanical, wireless, application software, hardware, and user experience. If you love music, creating breakthrough new products and solving challenging problems, we would like to talk to you!
- Design, develop and refactor real-time software architectures and modular software components used to power Sonos products
- Benchmark and optimize system performance for audio and other low latency data traffic streaming and processing over wireless network
- Analyze and troubleshoot streaming audio in a variety of formats to improve reliability
- Participate in design reviews, and code reviews on github
- Interface with other software teams to define the proper APIs and IPC mechanisms needed to access audio services
- Contribute to the suite of developer unit tests using google test
- Reproduce, isolate and debug complex low-level problems that may span interfaces between hardware and software
- Create, review, and maintain documentations
- Mentor junior engineers, and provide consultation for cross functional collaboration
Our take
Sonos is a highly reputed global manufacturer of top tier speakers. Since being founded in 2002 it has become a market leading audio product brand, partnering with over 100 music service companies and putting products in nearly 11 million households worldwide.
Sonos' strong brand reputation has seen it carve out space in a competitive market alongside giants like Amazon and Alphabet, who are similarly targeting the connected audio home market. Sonos have perhaps been smart in keeping their product selection relatively modest, focusing instead on strategic partnerships that embed their products across different markets. They are, for example, partnered with Audi to provide their first in-car sound system.
As companies began adopting remote and hybrid work, Sonos benefitted from a period of increased consumer focus on refitting the leisure and work facilities of their homes. This includes speakers and smart speakers, which account for the vast majority of Sonos revenue. This trend is only set to continue, with the global home audio market expected to exceed $70 billion by 2030. As a market leader, Sonos is in good stead to continue its sustained growth.
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Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2013
$25m
LATE VC
Jun 2012
$135m
SERIES F
Total funding: $227m
Company HQ
Lower State, Santa Barbara, CA
Leadership
Tom Conrad
(CEO)Tom has been part of Sonos since 2017, becoming CEO in 2025. Previously, he was the CEO of Zero Longevity Science and the CPO of Quibi.
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