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Sonos Internship - Near Field Sound in Nieuw, Netherlands
At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.
PAID INTERNSHIPThe Role:
In this project you will be doing research on solving several challenges related to how sound is being rendered by speakers in an ultra near field listening space. In this domain we’re trying to minimize the quality loss that is caused by sensitivity to the room, the audience’s position, and external noise factors. We’re planning to mitigate the problems through hardware, software algorithms and artificial intelligence. You will be focusing on the Algorithm and AI part, analyzing first the magnitude and cause of the issues related to ultra-near field listening, and then solving these issues.
What You Will Do - Program Schedule
Total duration: 6 months, full-time
Month 1,2 - Analysis issues and report thereof
Month 3 - Development of a paper exercise solution
Month 4 - First iteration experiments, and report thereof
Month 5 - Second iteration experiments, and report thereof
Month 6 - Third iteration experiments, and final report
What You’ll Need:
Basic Qualifications:
Fluent in Java, Ruby on Rails, C++ or other programming languages
Experience with test-driven development
Proficiency in software engineering tools
Ability to document requirements and specifications
BSc degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
Pro: Experience developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (JSF, Wicket, GWT, Spring MVC)
Able to learn and apply new knowledge quickly
You will learn basic acoustics and audio engineering skills in the internship program
Your profile will be reviewed and you'll hear from us once we have an update. At Sonos we take the time to hire right and appreciate your patience.
Sonos is a sound experience company. We connect millions of listeners all around the world to the content they want, where and how they want it. Since inventing multiroom wireless audio in 2005, we have continuously innovated the listening experience, designing hardware and software that celebrates sound, empowers our customers, and brings the home to life. Our team is made up of passionate players united by a culture of respect, transparency, collaboration, and ownership who want to inspire the world to listen better.
Having been distributed from the start, we’ve long since been accustomed to having close teammates in entirely different locations and time zones. We ground ourselves in these four principles while working as distributed teams:
Role Location: Some roles require an office while others may be done remotely. Leaders make this decision based on business rationale, role requirements and team needs.
Travel: Some work is better done in person. Teams should meet together in person at critical moments to move work forward.
Meeting Norms: We use our time to drive OKRs and run the business. We normalize asynchronous collaboration and focused work. We give feedback and help each other improve when norms are not followed.
Flexibility: Flexibility done well fuels impact, not hinders it. Teams flex to support one another and employees flex to deliver for the team or business. We flex both ways to drive impact.
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