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Full Time
Location: Wherever you like!
Job Description
We looking for an outstanding driver engineer who can bring their experience and passion to our new projects, and who also relishes the challenge of pre-empting (and fixing!) the kind of fiendish bugs that are only revealed by tens of thousands of customers using our products every day.
You'll work with us to specify, design, build and improve our driver software for a variety of platforms. You'll evaluate new technologies, adopt and refine new working practices; and most importantly write lucid, high performance, robust and maintainable code which will form the backbone of new product ranges.
You'll join us at our headquarters in High Wycombe, or telecommute from anywhere in the world.
Skills & Requirements
You are:
- Widely experienced in kernel driver development using WDM, ASIO and CoreAudio
- An expert in USB, FireWire and PCIe
- An excellent designer, debugger and problem solver
- Obsessed with stability and performance
- Passionate about programming, music and sound!
Focusrite is a great place to work. Employees enjoy:
- The satisfaction of completing lots of varied and interesting projects
- Delicious free lunch, coffee, snacks and breakfast
- Company hackdays, weekly tech talks and a spirit of innovation
- A vibrant small company atmosphere
- Flexible working hours and location
- A culture of continuous improvement and the chance to make a difference
We're an extremely ambitious team of talented musicians, engineers and artists - join us and help build the future of music making!
Full time | Permanent (starting July 2013)
High Wycombe | United Kingdom
Role description
This is a strategic and tactical role, creating, implementing and overseeing communications programs that effectively promote the Professional and Project Recording products, such that they achieve or exceed their respective business goals. This role includes the creation and execution of industry-changing global product launches, requiring a degree of international travel. As the primary marketing tactician for the Focusrite brand, this role acts as primary brand arbiter for one of the most prestigious names in professional recording.
Key responsibilities
- Creation, communication and implementation of category marcomm strategies
- Creation & execution of global new product launches
- Generation of all global briefs, providing direction for the marcomm services team
- Act as a the primary arbiter for the brand and its rich heritage
- A communication bridge between product managers and marcomm services
- Working with AR/PR Manager to maintain key pro recording global media relations
- Working with AR/PR Manager to define key pro recording Artist relations
- Oversee the maintenance of category product pages on global brand sites
- Generation of occasional short professional recording marketing copy
Abilities and experience required
- Demonstrable understanding & empathy for recording professionals
- Good knowledge of current music production techniques
- Experience in creating and managing modern marketing activities
- Understanding of the rudiments of digital marketing
- Experience in the creation of brand and channel-oriented marketing strategies alike
- Experience of, and a passion for working as part of a creative team
- An extra-curricular passion for music production
- Good writing skills, with an ability to cultivate desire through well-crafted copy
- Passionate yet constructive, even in a fast-paced work environment
- Great diplomacy, planning, time management and organisational skills
- A desire to work hard and play hard, 24 /7
Full time
High Wycombe
Job Description
Novation (and our sister brand, Focusrite) make a wide variety of music and pro audio products, from MIDI controller keyboards to high-end studio equipment. We’re looking for a great hardware and firmware design engineer to join our expanding team.
You'll work with us to specify, design, build and improve our products. You'll evaluate new technologies, adopt and refine new working practices, write bombproof firmware, and most importantly design high quality, cost effective mixed signal electronics.
Embedded within our creative instruments team, your primary focus will be on keyboards, synthesisers and controllers - but you’ll also review other designs and support the rest of the hardware team.
Skills & Requirements
An ideal candidate would be:
- Widely experienced in analogue, digital and mixed signal electronics
- Familiar with EMC, ESD and design for manufacture
- A solid C developer with a good knowledge of ARM
- Experienced in USB and other protocols
- An excellent designer, debugger and problem solver
- A great communicator - pragmatic, curious and flexible
- Passionate about electronics, music and sound!
About Focusrite Audio Engineering Ltd.
Focusrite is a great place to work. Employees enjoy:
- The satisfaction of completing lots of varied and interesting projects
- Delicious free coffee, snacks, breakfast and lunch
- Company hackdays and a spirit of innovation
- A relaxed atmosphere and flexible working hours
- A culture of continuous improvement and the chance to make a difference
We're an extremely ambitious team of musicians, engineers and artists - join us and help shape the future of music making!
12 Month Placement (Starting end July 2013)
High Wycombe | United Kingdom
Focusrite – Company and Community overview
Focusrite is one of the most prestigious companies in the field of pro audio and music making. As a young-at-heart and enthusiastic team, we enjoy a relatively flat hierarchy. Everyone can contribute to any area of the business. Focusrite really believe in hiring the best people, and as a consequence, making the best products – having fun in the process.
Core role responsibilities
- Online Customer Relationship Administration
- Work with Online Community Coordinator and Tech Support to listen to, and engage with our customers
- Feed back sentiment to Marketing and Product Managers
- Monitor and review content online
- Online Content Coordination
- Utilise a Content Management System (no coding required) to create and maintain multiple websites
- Identify opportunities for engaging web content
- Opportunity to learn and apply basic html
- Opportunity to learn about web statistics
- Active in coordinating web content for product launches and other campaigns
- Regular market research
Abilities and experience required
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Keen interest in music making or production
- Interest in Online Marketing and Social Media
- Passion to work in a fast-paced environment
- Self-motivated and keen to work as part of a team
- Good planning and organisational skills
- Ability to work on multiple projects at one time
- A drive to work hard and play hard!
- Basic knowledge of html would be advantageous, but not essential
Permanent
High Wycombe
We're looking for an outstanding software developer to join our team, to work on a variety of projects across the Focusrite and Novation brands. We're hoping to find someone who can bring their software engineering experience and passion to our new projects, who also relishes the challenge of fixing fiendish bugs in legacy code.
You'll work with us to specify, design and build software and hardware products. You'll evaluate new technologies, adopt and refine new working practices; and most importantly write lucid, high performance, maintainable code which will form the backbone of new product ranges.
You'll also help us maintain our portfolio, from kernel-mode drivers to iOS apps (via embedded DSP algorithms, VST plugins and web applications) - but don't worry, we won't expect you to be an expert in all of them!
An ideal candidate would be:
- Widely experienced in audio, music and application software
- Master of a variety of programming languages, platforms and operating systems (C++, Windows, iOS, and Mac OS X experience essential, Cocoa and C# also desirable)
- An excellent designer, debugger and problem solver
- A great communicator
- Pragmatic, curious and flexible
- Passionate about programming, music and sound!
Permanent
High Wycombe, UK
If you don't see anything that quite suits your skill-set but you think we should know about you, especially if you have original and commercially viable product ideas (hard or software) or any other attribute you think we'd be mad to ignore.