Senior Audio Coding Expert

Job Mission:

As member of the team, you will work together with world-class experts on audio coding, video coding, 3D media coding, video delivery, signal processing, and other related technologies. Your mission will be to participate to innovation, imagine, design, implement, optimize and benchmark new algorithms against state-of-the-art coding technologies to build foundations of the next generation of audio codecs and audio tools. Your mission will also include frequent support to our product teams to ensure that the latest audio technologies can be offered to our users via amazing products with honest prices.

Profile:

• You are holder of an Engineering, MS or PhD degree in Audio Coding, Computer Science, Mathematics, Signal Processing or equivalent.

• You have a minimum of 5 years experience in audio coding standardization (ISO/MPEG, 3GPP).

• You have a strong expertise in former audio codecs such as AAC, HE-AAC, MPEG-H 3D Audio, MPEG-I Immersive Audio, Dolby AC3 & AC4 & Atmos, USAC, EVS, IVAS,...

• You are rigorous, creative, pragmatic and results oriented.

• You have a good level of spoken and written English.

• Ideally, you are passionate about audio technologies and have strong motivation for bringing audio innovations into products.

Job description:

In this role your core responsibilities will be:

1. Research and implement new audio coding algorithms and new audio tools.

2. Contribute to standards on audio coding and applicative standards where audio expertise is needed (e.g. ISO/MPEG, and 3GPP SA4).

3. Work with our IPR teams on protecting our ideas and products.

4. Collaborate with our audio products teams so as to bring our innovations to life.

5. Demonstrate Xiaomi's innovation through scientific publications, technical conferences or other communication events.

6. Help building a technology roadmap based on expert analysis and present to leaders and executives.

7. Supervise interns/PhDs and foster collaborations with academics.

If you are interested in joining Xiaomi’s Media Coding and Delivery Group, please contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/champelml/