[LAD] Job offer at BarcelonaMedia: Real-time audio software developers

Dear All, The following position may be of interest to you. Please forward to anyone interested. Apologies in case of double posting. ==== About the Barcelona Media Audio Group ==== Fundacio Barcelona Media (BM) 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 post-production, to exhibition. Two main general goals are to automatize the capture and post-production 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.). Audio group home page: http://www.barcelonamedia.org/linies/10/en ==== Profile ==== We are looking for one or more experienced software engineers with experience in real-time audio processing. The candidate should preferably have a degree on Computer Science, although other profiles might be taken into account. ==== Required skills ==== * Real-time programming techniques: lock-free multi-threading programming, synchronisation of events from different clocks, etc. * Digital audio processing techniques. * Software-engineering practices for developing large software systems: Design patterns, agile methodologies such as simple design, refactoring and automatic testing. In general, a keen sense for the aesthetics of code, documentation and interfaces. and thoroughness in all aspects of software development. * The ability and willingness to work with a team, communicate well, adhere to standards, share code ownership, use versioning systems, etc. * Programming languages: Proficiency in C++, but also C and Python * Operating systems: GNU/Linux and Mac OS X ==== Other valuable skills ==== * Experience with real-time audio environments (PureData, Max/MSP, Supercollider, Faust, CLAM, etc.) * Plugin development experience with architectures such as: LADSPA, LV2, VST, Audio Units and Protools RTAS. * Experience with communication protocols such as OSC and MIDI. * Experience with time-code protocols such as LTC, MTC and MMC * Knowledge in acoustics technologies * Knowledge in audio and video streaming codecs and architectures. * 3D modeling: Blender or Maya or 3D studio * Qt graphical toolkit * Scons build system * Knowledge in electronics ==== What we offer ==== We offer an opportunity to work in one exciting and creative project related to 3D audio for cinema. The job also includes developing systems for 3D audio exhibition, post-production and interaction, with applications ranging from 3D digital cinema, to sports broadcasting, and video-games. Salary will depend on experience and skills. Side opportunities: perform strategic research in a new promising domain, work in a small-medium young and multidisciplinary including physicists, software engineers and sound designers, collaborate with people from the industry and from other academic research groups, establish contacts with the international audio research community through the attendance to international conferences, etc. ==== 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 "Audio job" * A brief presentation letter stating your interest in the offer. * A CV * Optionally, code samples (non open-source samples will be treated confidentially) ==== 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 coordinating 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).