Apogee Electronics is a leading designer and manufacturer of professional digital audio equipment based in Santa Monica, CA. We are a growing company with a reputation for creating award-winning digital audio conversion systems.

Apogee Electronics is looking for a firmware/software engineer with a strong background in embedded Linux real-time driver, kernel and application development. Experience in Xenomai or other realtime platforms highly desirable. 

You will play a meaningful role in the development of Apogee’s next generation products, working closely with hardware and software designers as part of a small and agile design team. You will help develop a real time audio platform on Linux, assist in board bringup of custom hardware, and help develop prototypes in order to prove key design concepts and identify technical constraints up front. You will work with audio application developers on the performance of the drivers and overall system, as well as hardware engineers on the hardware peripherals and physical interfaces on custom hardware designs.

Qualifications: 

• 5+ years professional experience in software development and embedded systems engineering 
• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Computer Engineering 
• Must have strong Linux kernel/driver level development experience 
• Strong C and C++ background 
• Understand optimizations and design trade-offs needed for real-time development 
• Experience with ARM and developing for SOC devices, Altera SOCs a plus 
• Low level programming of peripherals and interfaces, and experience with a variety of embedded MCU devices and toolsets desirable 
• Basic understanding of audio recording, digital audio workstation software, and audio interface hardware a plus 
• Audio application development or signal processing experience a plus 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Hard working, enthusiastic self-starter with the ability to work independently and on a team 
• Authorized to work in the US

Apogee Electronics is NOT seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this employment opportunity. Job Type: Full-time