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You enjoy creating and innovating. You never stop striving for better. You take responsibility and you get results. You love being part of a team. Above all, you want your work to matter: Welcome to our world! At Sonova we create sense by bringing sound to life. Our innovative hearing care solutions help millions of people enjoy life’s unforgettable moments.

We offer exceptional career opportunities through market-leading brands from consumer to medical, products and services that keep pushing hearing care forward, and a culture where you can quickly belong and perform at your best.

If you want the freedom to explore, opportunities to grow, and make positive change on people lives through your work, this is the place for you.

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Staefa, Switzerland

Embedded Firmware Engineer DSP

In our R&D group, we develop hearing solutions and services for hearing impaired people and hearing care professionals in the form of hearing instruments, accessories, web services, mobile applications and PC software.

In a team of electrical and software engineers, you will contribute to the design, development and the maintenance of software infrastructure and firmware. The development is focused on bare metal abstraction as well as middle layer and infrastructure frameworks to manage a multi-processor embedded hardware system dedicated to signal- and neural-network processing.

Your work will build the foundation for all Sonova hearing instrument product application development conducted by Sonova teams worldwide. From the concept to the deployment phase, you will be engaged in contributing to highly flexible and reliable software and firmware solutions.


Your tasks

 

  • Develop the foundation software layers and frameworks (C/C++) of a heterogeneous multi-processor embedded hardware system
  • Optimize performance, energy consumption and latency throughout the design of the embedded software system
  • Collaborate closely with application layer and development environment software teams
  • Participate in agile software development process, code reviews and interdisciplinary collaboration
  • Maintain the developed solutions and support the users thereof
  • Review hardware design documentation, support hardware verification activities

 

Your profile

 

  • University degree (MSc/BSc) or equivalent in electrical engineering, computer science or related technical field
  • 4+ years of experience in the development, deployment, and maintenance of embedded software systems
  • Experience or previous exposure to close-to-metal software development, proficiency in C/C++, Python as a plus
  • Foundational knowledge in Signal- and Neural Network Processing
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving skills, and service orientation
  • Fluent in English; German is a plus

 

Our offer

 

We can offer you a new challenge, with interesting tasks and much more – including an open corporate culture, flat hierarchies, support for further training and development, opportunities to take on responsibility, an excellent range of foods, sports and cultural facilities, attractive employment conditions, and flexible working time models in various roles. 
Employment level 80-100%.

 

Gianni S. Raffi, Senior Talent Acquisition Manager, is looking forward to receiving your complete application (cover letter, CV, references, and certificates) via our online job application platform.

 

For this vacancy only direct applications will be considered. 

 

Sonova AG
Laubisrütistrasse 28
CH-8712 Stäfa 

+41 58 928 01 01

 

 

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