Audio Systems Engineer, Wearable

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product, Acoustic, Algo, and Software teams to define and develop hearable audio systems and deliver solutions that meet key user experiences.
• Own tuning, evaluation and debugging of hearable audio algorithms with focus on media playback based use cases.
• Test, develop tools, tune strategies and automate new methodologies to launch hearable audio solutions.
• Validate and debug audio system software, coordinate on algorithm enhancements with developers.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Acoustics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in consumer hardware.
• Experience with media playback measurement systems.
• Experience with consumer device media playback algo-acoustic pipelines.
• Experience with audio measurement tools (e.g., soundcheck, audio precision, HEAD acoustics ACQUA, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Acoustics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 7 years of industry experience in an audio related field.
• Experience with acoustic and electrical measurement using soundcheck, audio precision, or similar.
• Experience with headphone playback measurement systems including artificial and/real ear couplers, soundcheck, audio precision, Bruel and Kjaer, and HEAD acoustics.
• Knowledge of headphone media playback pipelines, including equalizers, mixers and Dynamic Range Compressors (DRCs).