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Audio Firmware Engineer at Hark - ApplyBlast

Audio Firmware Engineer

Hark

5 months ago

Remote

Full Time

Senior

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An experienced Audio Firmware Engineer to develop and optimize next-generation embedded audio solutions on Android and SoC platforms.

Responsibilities

Bring up audio on new hardware in the Android system — codecs, mics, speakers, routing, and low-level platform integration
Design, implement, and manage audio use cases on SoC platforms across playback, capture, voice, and always-on listening paths
Integrate and tune audio paths across the Android audio stack (HAL, AudioFlinger, Audio Policy Manager, TinyALSA/ALSA) and the underlying SoC audio frameworks
Debug complex audio issues end-to-end using platform logs, working from kernel and DSP traces up through application-level symptoms
Partner with the AI team to support audio-driven inference workloads (wake word, ASR, speech enhancement) within latency, power, and memory budgets

Skills

Qualifications

3+ years of professional firmware or embedded audio development, ideally on consumer products that have shipped at scaleProficient with C/C++ in resource-constrained, real-time environmentsFamiliar with Android audio architecture: Audio HAL, AudioFlinger, Audio Policy Manager, and TinyALSA/ALSA interfacesHands-on experience with audio tooling and frameworksComfort working across the full audio stack — kernel drivers, DSP firmware, HAL, framework — and debugging issues that span all of it

About Hark

hark.com

Company Size

1-10 employees

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Hark is building what it describes as the world's most advanced personal intelligence, combining bespoke native hardware devices and agentic computers with end-to-end speech, text, and vision models and highly personalized memory. The platform is designed to think like the user — listening, seeing, and interacting with the world naturally — to offload mental workload and enable people to solve meaningful problems. Hark is currently in beta and reviewing applications to join its platform.

About Hark

Headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Company Size

201-500 employees

Founded

2018

Industry

Technology

Glassdoor Rating

4.2 / 5

Leadership Team

Sarah Johnson

Chief Executive Officer

Michael Chen

Chief Technology Officer

Emily Williams

VP of Engineering

David Rodriguez

VP of Product

Jessica Thompson

Chief Financial Officer

Andrew Park

VP of Sales

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