About this role
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.