Department Profiles

Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits

Audio & Multimedia

Audio and Multimedia — Requirements and Qualifications

Soundlabor

The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, based in Erlangen, Germany, is home of the organization’s Audio and Multimedia division that has been working in compressed audio technology for more than 20 years. Fraunhofer IIS is the main inventor of mp3 and universally credited with the co-development of AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) as well as technologies for the media world of tomorrow, including MPEG Surround and the Fraunhofer Audio Communication Engine. Throughout more than two decades, Fraunhofer IIS has licensed its audio codec software to more than 1,000 companies. Fraunhofer estimates that it has enabled more than 1 billion commercial products worldwide using its mp3, AAC and other media technologies.
The increasing importance world-wide of digital audio coding methods for a large variety of products and the excellent reputation of Fraunhofer IIS as a leading provider for tailor-made solutions in this sector enable us to expand our development capacities. Typical employees should have the following profile:

Prerequisites

You should have a degree in electronics engineering, computer science, mathematics or physics. You also have know-how with programming in C/C++ and with digital signal processing. Depending on the field of activity, the following additional qualifications are necessary:

  • Knowledge in acoustics, especially psychoacoustics
  • Knowledge of the DSP families 56xxx by Motorola, C6x by Texas Instruments or 21xxx by Analog Devices
  • Knowledge of hardware design and experience in the use of studio equipment
  • Knowledge of cryptography