Job Description
Position Summary, Responsibilities and Expectations:
- Lead and mentor an audio firmware team, including task planning, technical guidance, and performance management.
- Own audio firmware architecture and technical direction for gaming peripheral products.
- Oversee development of audio protocol (USB, Bluetooth, 2.4 GHz wireless), DSP control, codecs, and latency optimization.
- Collaborate with hardware and acoustic teams on bring-up, tuning, and validation of audio systems.
- Drive firmware quality through code reviews, debugging, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement practices.
- Tracking and reporting regularly on development progress to the project manager and related product team members.
- Generation of FRD, test protocol, etc.
- Coordinate withthe Validation team to define test strategies, validation criteria, and issue triage processes
- Ensure on-time delivery aligned with NPI schedules and milestone commitments.
- Communicate technical status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to cross-functional and executive stakeholders.
Essential Skills And Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
- 8+ years of embedded firmware development experience, with at least 3 years in a technical leadership or management role.
- Strong background in audio firmware for consumer or gaming devices (USB Audio, Bluetooth Audio, wireless audio systems).
- Experience with MCUs/SoCs, RTOS, DSPs, and low-level driver development.
- Solid understanding of audio concepts such as sampling, latency, synchronization, echo cancellation, and noise processing.
- Proven ability to manage multi-project priorities in a fast-paced consumer electronics environment.
- English communication skills, both written and verbal, for collaboration with global teams and partners
- Experience in the gaming peripheral industry is highly preferred
- Experience with CI/CD for embedded systems (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).
- Familiarity with power profiling tools and energy-aware design.
