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Audio Systems Engineer
$175K–$280K
San Francisco +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Bellevue - Experience
- 4+ years required; 8+ years preferred. At least one shipped consumer electronics product required.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Acoustics, or similar.
About the job
Design, tune, evaluate, and ship compact audio systems for smart wearables, including speech reproduction and spatialized audio capture.
What you'll do
- Translate product requirements into audio system and transducer requirements; design and refine real-time audio capture and rendering systems.
- Develop and oversee audio system architecture, algorithms, tools, and integration; evaluate third-party technologies.
- Support factory testing and product builds throughout development.
What they ask for
- 4+ years in audio hardware development, including at least one shipped consumer electronics product.
- Experience designing, tuning, and testing microphone arrays and real-time audio capture; track record across acoustics, transducers, digital interfaces, audio ICs, and DSPs.
- Hands-on experience with audio testing systems and acoustic simulation software.
- Background in DSP techniques and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Acoustics, or similar.
Nice to have
- 8+ years in audio hardware development; proficiency in MATLAB or Python.
- Experience with psychoacoustic metrics, speech quality evaluation, audio rendering, or ML/audio algorithm development.
Pay
$175K – $280K (base salary)
Tools
SoundCheck, Audio Precision, HATS testing, COMSOL, MATLAB, Python, FIR/IIR
AI focus
Consider trade-offs in DSP and ML approaches for embedded solutions; preferred familiarity with ML techniques and neural network implementations.
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