• Upstream & Community Participation: Contribute to and collaborate with WirePlumber, PipeWire, and ALSA upstream communities

• Real-World Impact: Design, integrate, and ship embedded Linux audio systems that work reliably in real-world products

• Deep Technical Work: Implement and debug PipeWire + WirePlumber stacks, including ALSA, DSPs, and system-level interactions

• Customer Collaboration: Work directly with customer teams to translate requirements into robust audio architectures and solutions

• Breadth When Needed: Support adjacent areas like Bluetooth audio and Linux audio tooling when required (pw-cli, pw-top, alsa-utils, tracing frameworks) to diagnose and resolve issues efficiently

• Be a Technical Advisor: Explain complex audio architecture decisions to product teams, provide honest assessments of what is and isn’t possible and build trust through transparent communication

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Required:

• Strong hands-on experience with the Linux audio stack (PipeWire, WirePlumber, ALSA)

• Strong proficiency in C and systems-level programming

• Solid understanding of core audio concepts (latency, formats, synchronization, buffering, resampling)

• Proven ability to debug complex issues across multiple layers of a Linux system

• Comfortable working directly with customers in a consulting or support capacity

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

Nice to Have:

• Experience with ALSA kernel driver development

• Familiarity with Rust

• Exposure to Bluetooth audio (A2DP, HFP, LE Audio)

• Basic understanding of DSP concepts, such as signal flow, filtering, and common processing blocks (e.g. echo cancellation, noise suppression, beamforming)

• Contributions to relevant open-source projects

• Experience with embedded or real-time Linux systems

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Compensation & BenefitsWe offer a competitive benefits package tailored to each country in which we have employees, plus a core global benefit offering accessible to all Collaborans. Our core benefits include:

• Competitive salary based on experience and location

• Office setup budget

• Sabbatical/Retention of Services

  • after five years of continuous service

• Co-working policy

  • support for working outside home

• Wellness assessments

  • biannual wellbeing assessments with a trained mental health specialist

• Conference attendance

  • we cover expenses and encourage speaking opportunities

• Open source time

  • contribute to projects you care about

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• Fully remote

  • work where you’re most productive

• Global team

  • engineers across Europe, Americas and Asia

• No on-call rotations

  • this isn’t support work

• Sustainable pace

  • we’re here for the long term

• Flexible hours

  • manage your own schedule

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• Upstream contributions

  • your work shapes Linux, not just client products

• Technical leadership track

  • path to principal engineer, subsystem expertise or technical architecture roles

• Consulting track

  • develop deeper client relationships, lead customer engagements or shape service offerings

• Mentorship opportunities

  • both receiving and providing guidance

• Conference speaking

  • we support presentation submissions and provide coaching

• Recognition

  • your contributions are public, building your professional reputation

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• Upstream first

  • we believe the best solutions benefit everyone

• Transparency

  • open discussion about technical decisions, business constraints and project challenges

• Pragmatism

  • perfect is the enemy of good; we ship quality code that solves real problems

• Respect for expertise

  • we trust engineers to make technical decisions

• Collaborative

  • we succeed by working together, internally and with the community

• Sustainable pace

  • we’re here for the marathon, not the sprint