Build The Future Of Music With Us!
Soundbrenner builds the world’s first wearable smart device for musicians. It’s the metronome of the 21st century. Wearable, smart and powered by vibrations. Soundbrenner combines hardware products with mobile and desktop apps into a holistic solution that empowers musicians to achieve true mastery of rhythm.
We’re headquartered in Hong Kong at PMQ in Central and hold an additional office in Berlin. We currently employ a full-time staff of 11. To date we sold and shipped over 10,000 units. We’ve raised close to $2 million USD in funding from investors. We were featured in the New York Times, Techcrunch, Gizmodo and around a dozen of other international press outlets.
Job Summary:
This is a unique opportunity for a highly capable and motivated individual.
As senior embedded systems engineer at Soundbrenner, you’ll be in charge of electrical engineering and firmware development of a next generation wearable device. It will be your responsibility to oversee the development of this new product and bring it to life, from prototyping stage into mass manufacturing of tens of thousands of units.Help develop market research methodology and set up online surveys, one-on-one customer interviews, and focus groups with performing musicians.
What you’ll do:
- Develop early-stage prototyping PCBs to validate concept decision
- Collaborate hand in hand with mechanical designers, industrial designers and our mobile and desktop app team to turn your prototypes into a world class, integrated product for our customers
- Develop embedded firmware with unit and functional testing under consideration of efficiency, stability and scalability of system resources.
- Solve interesting, challenging problems such as latency-sensitive network synchronization algorithms
- Work with our production manager and contract factory to bring our product to mass manufacturing
What we're looking for:
- At least 3 years of experience developing embedded systems
- Proficiency with EDA tools (e.g. Altium and KiCad)
- Excellent knowledge of embedded C & UNIX/Linux
- You keep yourself up to date about modern coding style and dev tools such as subversioning systems (git) and modern debugging techniques
- Tidy. You code concise, think ahead, document your work properly andapply coding design patterns.
- You need to care deeply about doing great work. You need to derive your satisfaction not from praise, but from being proud of what you accomplished yourself. Work needs to play a major part in your life and your priorities. As member of Soundbrenner you are building a company from the ground up. That means your life right now needs to be all about growing, learning and building and you need to be very excited about the idea of that.
- You need to be able to think outcome oriented. You always need to understand why you are ultimately doing something and constantly ask yourself if what you are currently doing is the best way to achieve it.
- You should be very comfortable being uncomfortable. Challenges and problems don’t scare you. If you are surrounded by problems you don’t focus on what’s wrong but on how you can solve it.
- You are capable of understanding and designing electronic circuitry for prototyping, including the creation of concise schematics, PCBA routing, and testing electronic systems.
- Bonus: Especially profound knowledge of capacitive touch systems, display technology, haptic actuators, and Bluetooth communication. Experience working with Chinese factories and vendors. Passion for music and music technology.