Junior Software Development Engineer, Sonos
Embedded Engineering Productivity
4+ days a week in office
Wireless audio experience company
Open for applications
Wireless audio experience company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
4+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide music lovers with the tools to enjoy their favourite sounds anywhere, any time.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrated experience programming in Python
- Ability to read and understand firmware code written in C/C++
- Experience with Linux as a development platform
- Working knowledge of modern source code control tools and CI/CD frameworks
- Must be able to translate product/feature requirements and code changes into test cases
- Inquisitiveness in understanding how components and technologies operate to their core
- If you don’t have 100% of the skills listed, we strongly encourage you to apply if interested
Desirable
- Experience working with embedded systems
- Experience designing and developing test automation with Pytest
- Experience using data to substantiate design decisions
What the job involves
- As a Software Development Engineer on the Embedded Player team, you will bring your perspective and influence the way we think about high quality. You’ll apply your creativity and engineering skills to help shape our system architectural vision which serves as the foundation for which our experiences are built on
- Advocate for an Automation test strategy, influencing software quality early in the development lifecycle by driving the confidence needed to evaluate release readiness across our family of products and technologies
- Review requirements, behavior specifications, user stories, and source code changes to develop effective, early-stage test strategies that validate code merges and support product readiness decisions
- Engineer new automation and tools, and optimize existing ones to improve testing efficiency, stability, and performance metrics across the Sonos product ecosystem
- Collaborate proactively with firmware development engineers during new product development to debug software/hardware interactions and root-cause issues
- Proactively maintain and troubleshoot automation systems to deliver stable, trustworthy test results that support confident decision-making by firmware developers
- Perform peer code reviews to assure code quality and test coverage
- Work closely with third-party test vendors to manually validate software features and ensure functional quality
- Act on ideas and bring visibility to your work via various technical forums (demos, tech-talks, hack-weeks)
Application process
- Your profile will be reviewed and you'll hear from us once we have an update. At Sonos we take the time to hire right and appreciate your patience
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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