[LAD] Job offers at Barcelona Media: 3D audio developers

Dear All, The following position may be of interest to you. Please forward to anyone interested. Apologies for double posting. ==== About the Barcelona Media Audio Group ==== Fundacio Barcelona Media Universitat Pompeu Fabra is a research centre created to foster the competitiveness of the Catalan and Spanish media and communication industry through innovative research activities and projects. BM promotes technology generation and development; research and creativity; transfer of research results to industry; promotion of the research results to society at large; training in all areas of communication; and social awareness of the communication industry in a culture of innovation. The Audio Group research embraces the whole chain of audiovisual productions, focusing specially on 3D surround sound technologies, from capturing, to postproduction, to exhibition. Two main general goals are to automatize the workflow (by automatic audio adaptation to given 3D scenes), and to make it easily adaptable to any final exhibition system (surround 5.1, 7.1, 22.2, binaural or 3D stereo, etc.). One strong line of research of the group is the reproduction of acoustic fields in 3D virtual environments, using computer simulations to predict what any source would sound like in a given virtual world. The group applies and improves the algorithms of Finite-Differences in Time-Domain for low frequencies, Ray-Tracing for high frequencies. Such technologies are then integrated in real-time, interactive multimedia systems. Audio group home page: http://www.barcelonamedia.org/linies/10/en ==== Profile ==== We are looking for one or more experienced software developers. The candidate should be self-motivated, results-oriented, and hard-working. The candidate should preferably have a degree on Computer Science, although other profiles might be taken into account. ==== Required skills ==== * Software-engineering techniques and methods for developing large software systems (design patterns, agile methodologies, version control systems, etc. ). * Real-time programming techniques including lock-free and multi-threading. * Programming languages: C, C++, Python. * Operating systems: GNU/Linux and Mac OS X. * A keen sense for the aesthetics of code, documentation, and user interfaces. Thoroughness in all aspects of software development. * The ability and willingness to interact in a team, using agile methodologies. Not required, but valuable skills: * Real-time multimedia environments (PureData, Max/MSP, Supercollider, CLAM, etc.). * Plugin architectures: LADSPA, LV2, VST, Audio Units, etc. * Knowledge of common protocols such as OSC, MIDI, etc. * Knowledge in digital signal processing and/or acoustics * 3D modeling: Blender or Maya or 3D studio * Qt * Scons ==== What we offer ==== We offer an opportunity to work in creative projects in the field of 3D audio for media productions, with applications ranging from 3D digital cinema, to sports broadcasting, and videogames. Side opportunities: perform strategic research in a new promising domain, working in a small-medium multidisciplinary team, collaborate with people from the industry and from other academic research groups, to establish contacts with the international audio research community through the attendance to international conferences... ==== How to apply ==== To apply, send email to jobs(a)barcelonamedia.org / cc: toni.mateos(a)barcelonamedia.org, pau.arumi(a)barcelonamedia.org with the subject "3D Audio Jobs" * A brief presentation letter stating your interest in the offer. * A CV * Optionally, code samples (non open-source samples will be treated as confidential) ==== More background about Barcelona Media ==== BM grew from the Communication Station set up by Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2001. It is a member of the Catalan and Spanish network of Technology Centres, and is the only one devoted to the Media sector. BM’s trustees are representatives of the Media industry, the Catalan Government, Barcelona City and four universities. BM has an extremely strong record in European collaborative R&D and Innovation projects, both as partner and coordinator. BM is currently involved in 14 EU funded research projects in information and communication technologies with over 5 million € EC funding. BM was coordinator of an FP6 IP and 2 STREPs, including IP-RACINE which researched and developed digital cinema technologies ‘from scene to screen’. It is now co-ordinating the FP7 ICT IP 2020 3D Media, developing 3D digital cinema and home entertainment. Other directly relevant projects are IP SALERO (‘intelligent content’ objects with context-aware behaviours), SEMEDIA (Search Environments for MEDIA) and FP5 SPEED-FX (very high resolution real-time graphic interaction for digital cinema).