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Meridian, the award-winning British audio pioneer, has been creating innovative audio technologies and elegant, high-performance audio products since 1977. Meridian’s ambition is to enable people to listen, enjoy and fall in love with their music and movies wherever they are, and our renowned sound philosophy can be applied in all listening environments. 

 

 

Meridian’s products are sold by custom integrators and audio specialists in more than 80 countries, worldwide. Meridian works with many of the world’s leading brands and our customers include British Airways, LG Electronics, Jaguar Land Rover, Kia, and AVATR, enabling millions of consumers around the world to experience our sound throughout their homes, and in automotive, marine and airline settings.

We recognise that every employee plays a pivotal role in enabling Meridian to truly revolutionise how we experience sound.

Our pioneering research offers unique opportunities to work alongside talented colleagues who understand the importance of quality and performance. Therefore, our authentic culture of innovation encourages creativity, collaboration, and professionalism.

 

Current Vacancies

INTERNAL SALES EXECUTIVE

Primary Purpose

  • As an Internal Sales Executive, you will play a pivotal role in our future-facing, high-performance organisation. You’ll champion Meridian’s renowned sound philosophy, support commercial operations within our Product Sales Team, and coordinate technical support enquiries to uphold our reputation for excellence. This position involves working with external sales and trade customers across all global markets and territories, ensuring that every interaction reflects Meridian’s commitment to innovation, quality and premium service.

Key Responsibilities

  • Global Client Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with external sales teams and distributors worldwide, ensuring satisfaction and loyalty across diverse markets.
  • Sales & Order Management/Coordination: Oversee trade orders through the full lifecycle, resolving queries in partnership with key stakeholders, processing leads and acting as the daily point of contact for current and future orders. Provide seamless customer experiences, supporting external sales teams with high-quality commercial and administrative coordination.
  • Pipeline Management & Business Development: Proactively identify, manage and qualify business opportunities through inbound enquiries and strategic outreach across international territories, maintaining and updating sales pipeline & order forecast records.
  • Technical Support Coordination: Serve as a bridge between customers and technical teams, ensuring swift resolution of technical enquiries globally.
  • Product Knowledge: Communicate Meridian’s cutting-edge audio innovations clearly and fittingly, reflecting our global standard in high-performance sound.

Skills & Qualifications Required

  • Exceptional Communicator: The ability to communicate clearly and effectively across all channels, delivering a confident, articulate voice that reflects Meridian’s prestigious brand.
  • Analytical Problem-Solver: Quick and effective in addressing both customer and technical challenges.
  • Meticulous Attention to Detail: Ensures every order, lead, and data entry reflects Meridian’s standard of precision.
  • Organised Multitasker: Comfortable managing multiple accounts and prioritising tasks in a fast-paced, performance-focused environment.  
  • Relevant Experience: Prior roles in sales or customer support, particularly within technology, audio, or high-end consumer electronics, are advantageous.

Working Environment

  • Based in a collaborative office setting, you’ll engage with customers via phone, email, and online platforms. This role is critical to ensuring Meridian’s award-winning audio systems live up to their acclaim, from concept to installation and support for clients in every region of the world.

Career Opportunities

  • Success in this role supports progression into account management, external sales or specialised roles in business operations. As Meridian continues to expand globally, your influence and development will grow alongside us.

Why Meridian

  • Be part of a world-class audio brand driving innovation and performance.
  • Competitive salary and benefits package.
  • Opportunities for global exposure, personal development, and working within a high-performance, innovation-led culture.
  • Join a team united by passion, precision, and the pursuit of authentic, lifelike and natural sound.

Job Location:

  • Meridian’s Headquarters in Huntingdon, Cambridge (Full-Time)

Embrace the opportunity to shape the future of sound with Meridian. Submit your CV and a cover letter to ukjobs@meridian.co.uk

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COMPLIANCE & QUALITY MANAGER

Primary Purpose;

  • To maintain Meridians ’ customers’ compliance and certification requirements.
  • To manage the internal Quality Management System (QMS) & HSE System.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders across the business to ensure compliance with agreed standards and legislation.
  • Ensure legislative changes and external regulatory requirements are identified, proposed, and effectively implemented within company policies and procedures.

Main Duties;
Compliance Management

  • Coordinate and manage compliance-related projects, including HSE, Quality & Supplier Assurance, data protection, and accreditations.
  • Ensure processes and procedures comply with relevant safety and regulatory requirements.
  • Work with Engineering and Procurement to ensure material content meets legal and customer requirements.
  • Review, document, and maintain business continuity planning.

Audit and Assurance

  • Perform internal company internal audits to ensure adherence to compliance, quality, and safety standards.
  • Support external audits and accreditation processes, ensuring all documentation and records are accurate and up to date.

Quality Management

  • Perform internal company internal audits to ensure adherence to compliance, quality, and safety standards.
  • Support external audits and accreditation processes, ensuring all documentation and records are accurate and up to date.

Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) Management

  • Develop, implement, and maintain Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) policies, processes, standards, and systems.
  • Conduct health and safety audits and recommend improvements where necessary.
  • Monitor hazardous substances (COSHH) and oversee production waste and disposal methods to ensure legal compliance and environmental responsibility.

Skills, Qualifications, Competence Level;

  • Degree in quality, industrial, electronic, or mechanical engineering or demonstrable relevant work experience.
  • 2+ years of experience in quality engineering, quality assurance, or a similar role.
  • Experience using QA software tools and processes.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent project management skills.
  • Knowledge of test processes for sophisticated electrical equipment
  • ASQ certification preferred
  • Ability to work well with all disciplines, particularly production and engineering
  • Ability to engage and influence others to deliver
  • A successful quality engineer should have excellent troubleshooting skills and be able to ensure that processes and products consistently meet established quality standards.

Job Location:

  • Meridian’s Headquarters in Huntingdon, Cambridge (Full-Time)

To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter to ukjobs@meridian.co.uk

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AUTOMOTIVE DSP ENGINEER

Meridian are looking for an Automotive DSP engineer to join our Automotive team and support the development of high-end automotive audio systems. This will include support throughout the development process, from design of the systems and implementation of DSP libraries through to integration of those libraries and tuning of the vehicles. You will also work closely with the Research and Applied Technologies team on the development and implementation of new and existing DSP algorithms.

We are looking for someone with a good degree in a relevant field (e.g. engineering, acoustics, computer science, physics or mathematics), plus 2-5 years of industry experience, preferably in an audio-related field.

You should be familiar with prototyping of algorithms in MATLAB and/or Python, as well as implementation of audio algorithms in C or similar. Experience with ADI SHARC and/or TI C66x DSP platforms would be beneficial.

Required experience:

  • Critical listening/audio tuning
  • Hands-on DSP experience
  • Working knowledge of C and/or C++
  • Python (preferably including UI design)
  • DSP filter and algorithm design
  • Prototyping and development of algorithms in MATLAB and/or Python

Desirable experience:

  • Knowledge of loudspeaker technology and acoustics
  • DSP implementation on ADI SHARC and/or TI C66x platforms
  • Audio measurement equipment (e.g. Prism dScope, Audio Precision, SMAART etc.)
  • Automotive acoustics
  • Transducer and loudspeaker evaluation (T/S and enclosure)

Aptitudes/skills required:

  • Teamwork – you will be working alongside a number of engineers across the engineering department
  • Personable and outgoing personality – you will be interacting with marketing. engineering and commercial teams, both internally and externally, with automotive partners
  • Meridian has several automotive partners all over the world;
    - A willingness and flexibility to travel involving considerable amounts within the UK and overseas is essential
    - A willingness to work outside of normal office hours, when required
  • A passion for music and listening (playing of musical instruments is desirable), Creative and innovative problem solving
  • High degree of self-motivation with good time management skills
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to provide clear explanations and documentation
  • Ability to provide reasoning and explanation of work to a wide range of audiences
  • Able to thrive within a business with demanding clients
  • Able to quickly adapt to using new technologies
  • Able to fault-find and maintain existing software codebases

Job Location:

  • Meridian’s Headquarters in Huntingdon, Cambridge (Full-Time) *But will also include extensive UK and overseas travel for on-site tuning.

To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter to ukjobs@meridian.co.uk

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RESEARCH ENGINEER

Meridian are looking for an experienced research engineer to join our Research and Applied Technologies team. You will be working alongside research, acoustic and DSP engineers, plus the Automotive team, to develop new and innovative audio signal processing algorithms for application in Meridian’s own high-performance home audio products as well as for application across our licensing customers and partners. The role will also include occasional support for the Automotive team with the tuning of Meridian automotive audio systems, which may involve international travel.

We are looking for someone with a good degree in engineering, acoustics, computer science, physics or mathematics, plus experience in the research and development of audio signal processing algorithms. You should be familiar with prototyping of algorithms in MATLAB and/or Python, and it would be advantageous if you had experience in implementing algorithms in C or similar. Experience with Max MSP would also be beneficial. Experience with audio measurement systems such as Prism dScope, Audio Precision, Soundcheck or similar, is also necessary.

A key part of the role will also be customer-facing, so experience in presenting work to a wide range of technical and non-technical audiences is essential. Additionally, you will be required to assist with the generation of marketing assets, including video content, so you must be comfortable in front of a camera (see the technologies section under innovation on the Meridian website for examples of existing videos).

Essential experience:

  • Experience in research and development of audio signal processing algorithms
  • Prototyping of algorithms in MATLAB and/or Python
  • Publication and presentation of work
  • Audio measurement systems (Prism dScope, Audio Precision, Soundcheck etc.)

Desirable experience:

  • Max MSP
  • Implementing algorithms in C or similar embedded processing language
  • Understanding of audio electronics
  • Loudspeaker design
  • Graphic design for UI
  • Acoustic simulation (lumped element, finite element method, boundary element method etc.)

Aptitudes/skills required:

  • Ability to present work to a wide range of technical and non-technical audiences
  • Teamwork 
  • A passion for music and listening
  • Creative and innovative
  • Comfortable in front of a camera
  • High degree of self-motivation with good time management skills
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to provide clear explanations and documentation
  • Ability to thrive within a business with demanding clients
  • Formal presentation skills

Job Location:

  • Meridian’s Headquarters in Huntingdon, Cambridge (Full-Time)

To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter to ukjobs@meridian.co.uk

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