# Audio DSP Deployment Engineer at Hark

- Company: Hark
- What the company does: At Hark, we are building the most advanced personal intelligence in the world.
- Company website: https://hark.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Jose
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $120K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-20
- Apply by: 2026-11-04
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hark/jobs/4412392009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hark-audio-dsp-deployment-engineer/

## About the role

We're looking for an experienced Audio DSP Deployment Engineer to own how our audio algorithms work on device. Our algorithm team prototypes and validates new audio processing on the desktop in MaxMSP, JUCE, Python, and MATLAB, but the on-device implementation is its own design problem: what runs where, at what precision, in what block size, and within what compute, memory, and latency budget.

## What they're looking for

- Strong modern C/C++ for real-time, resource-constrained embedded systems
- Solid DSP fundamentals: filtering, FFT and overlap-add processing, sample rate conversion, fixed-point arithmetic, and numerical precision
- Ownership of on-device algorithm design decisions: restructuring processing to fit real-time constraints, choosing precision and topology, and knowing when to redesign rather than port
- Comfort working from measurements and listening as well as from a reference implementation
- Demonstrated experience porting reference algorithms from MATLAB, Python, or desktop C++ to an embedded DSP or SIMD target while meeting cycle and memory budgets
- Fluency in an embedded toolchain: cross-compilation, on-target debugging, and profiling

Tags: Acoustics Engineering