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  "textContent": "Remote Collabora\n\n**What You'll Actually Do**\n\n  * **Upstream & Community Participation**: Contribute to and collaborate with **WirePlumber, PipeWire, and ALSA upstream communities**\n\n  * **Real-World Impact** : Design, integrate, and ship **embedded Linux audio systems** that work reliably in real-world products\n\n  * **Deep Technical Work** : Implement and debug **PipeWire + WirePlumber** stacks, including ALSA, DSPs, and system-level interactions\n\n  * **Customer Collaboration** : Work directly with customer teams to **translate requirements into robust audio architectures and solutions**\n\n  * **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\n\n  * **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\n\n\n\n\n**What We're Looking For**\n\n**Required:**\n\nStrong hands-on experience with the **Linux audio stack** (PipeWire, WirePlumber, ALSA)\n\nStrong proficiency in **C** and systems-level programming\n\nSolid understanding of core audio concepts (latency, formats, synchronization, buffering, resampling)\n\nProven ability to debug complex issues across multiple layers of a Linux system\n\nComfortable working directly with customers in a consulting or support capacity\n\nStrong communication skills, both written and verbal\n\n**Nice to Have:**\n\nExperience with **ALSA kernel driver development**\n\nFamiliarity with **Rust**\n\nExposure to **Bluetooth audio** (A2DP, HFP, LE Audio)\n\nBasic understanding of **DSP concepts** , such as signal flow, filtering, and common processing blocks (e.g. echo cancellation, noise suppression, beamforming)\n\nContributions to relevant **open-source projects**\n\nExperience with embedded or real-time Linux systems\n\n**What We Offer**\n\n#### Compensation & Benefits\n\nWe 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:\n\n**Competitive salary** based on experience and location\n\n**Office setup budget**\n\n**Sabbatical/Retention of Services** - after five years of continuous service\n\n**Co-working policy** - support for working outside home\n\n**Wellness assessments** - biannual wellbeing assessments with a trained mental health specialist\n\n**Conference attendance** -**** we cover expenses and encourage speaking opportunities\n\n**Open source time** - contribute to projects you care about\n\n**Work Environment**\n\n  * **Fully remote** - work where you’re most productive\n\n  * **Global team** - engineers across Europe, Americas and Asia\n\n  * **No on-call rotations** - this isn't support work\n\n  * **Sustainable pace** - we're here for the long term\n\n  * **Flexible hours** - manage your own schedule\n\n\n\n\n**Growth & Impact**\n\n  * **Upstream contributions** - your work shapes Linux, not just client products\n\n  * **Technical leadership track** - path to principal engineer, subsystem expertise or technical architecture roles\n\n  * **Consulting track** - develop deeper client relationships, lead customer engagements or shape service offerings\n\n  * **Mentorship opportunities** - both receiving and providing guidance\n\n  * **Conference speaking** - we support presentation submissions and provide coaching\n\n  * **Recognition** - your contributions are public, building your professional reputation\n\n\n\n\n**Culture & Values**\n\n  * **Upstream first** - we believe the best solutions benefit everyone\n\n  * **Transparency** - open discussion about technical decisions, business constraints and project challenges\n\n  * **Pragmatism** - perfect is the enemy of good; we ship quality code that solves real problems\n\n  * **Respect for expertise** - we trust engineers to make technical decisions\n\n  * **Collaborative** - we succeed by working together, internally and with the community\n\n  * **Sustainable pace** - we're here for the marathon, not the sprint\n\n\n\n\n**Our Interview Process**\n\nWe respect your time and provide a clear, structured process:\n\n  1. **Application Review** (within 2 weeks) - we look at your code and contributions\n\n  2. **Initial Chat** (30 min) - casual conversation about your experience and our work\n\n  3. **Technical Interview** (2 - 3h)\n\n     1. **Technical Deep-Dive** - discuss kernel architecture, past debugging challenges and how you approach problem-solving (no whiteboard coding)\n\n     2. **Code Review Session** - review real patches together, discuss trade-offs\n\n     3. **Client Scenario Discussion** - talk through a realistic customer situation: balancing technical debt, timeline pressure and upstream goals (we want to see your thought process, not a \"right answer\")\n\n  4. **Chief Operating Officer**(60 min) - meet the Chief Operating Officer, ask about day-to-day work and how Collabora works, discuss compensation and benefits.\n\n  5. **Offer** (within 1 week of final interview)\n\n\n\n\n**Total timeline:** 3-4 weeks from application to offer\n\nWe provide feedback at every stage, and you'll always know where you stand.\n\n**Collabora's Commitment**\n\nWe're committed to building a diverse team and inclusive environment. We encourage applications from people underrepresented in tech.\n\nWe evaluate candidates based on skills and contributions, not pedigree. If you're unsure whether you qualify, **apply anyway -** imposter syndrome is real and you might be exactly who we're looking for.",
  "title": "Audio Consultant Engineer - Linux Audio Stack (Remote/Anywhere)"
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