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The Shared Reality Lab at McGill University is hiring a qualified developer for our "In Situ Audio Services" (ISAS) project. This involves developing spatialized audio rendering on mobile devices for the blind community, providing them with an enhanced sense of location awareness and an ability to actively explore their surroundings. The project is funded by the Minstère des services gouvermentaux and Google Research. The developer will start from our initial audio rendering software, written in Pd, running in the ZenGarden library on the iPhone platform, and augment this with parameterized control from the application, being developed in Objective C. Additional tasks will involve adding content to and querying our geospatial database, and managing the polyphonic audio sources that may be driven from a combination of text-to-speech, pre-stored files, network streaming, and local audio synthesis.
Suitable candidates should have a strong programming background and experience with digital audio, in particular, real-time synthesis, spatialization, and sound design. Pd or MAX/MSP experience is important, and some familiarity with the iPhone SDK a significant benefit. Additional skills of value include technical writing, knowledge of CPU performance issues, and experimental design.
The initial contract will be for six months, starting in January, or as soon as the slot is filled, and may be renewed. Salary is $40k per year, plus benefits.
To apply, please send your CV and cover letter to sre-jobs@cim.mcgill.ca.