Audio Consultant Engineer - Linux Audio Stack Remote Anywhere

What You'll Actually Do

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 Collabora tion : 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

What We're Looking For

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

What We Offer

Compensation & Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits package tailored to each country in which we have employees, plus a core global benefit offering accessible to all Collabora ns. 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

Work Environment

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