Audio Systems Engineer, Devices and Services

About the position

Google engineers develop the technologies that change how users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. In this role, you will develop new products that are used around the world. 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 wearable audio systems and deliver solutions that meet key user experiences.
• Develop tools, tuning strategies, and automate new methodologies to launch wearable audio solutions.
• Lead wearable audio systems design, tuning and validation, including power and thermal considerations, and develop and update the audio KPIs based on the product definition.
• Liaise with external vendors to ensure quality requirements are met.
• Contribute to the wearable audio roadmap definition by investigating new technologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Acoustics, Audio Engineering, Electrical Engineering, a similar field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience working in a consumer hardware technical environment, or 3 years of experience with an advanced degree.
• Experience with standard audio measurement and analysis tools, (e.g., ACQUA, SoundCheck, Audio Precision, Audition, Matlab/Python).
• Experience in audio system design, tuning, and validation (e.g., acoustics, microphones, digital signal processing, power/thermal).
• Experience with Audio DSP theory and Acoustics.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree or PhD in Acoustics, Signal Processing, Audio Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related disciplines.
• 7 years of experience in Consumer Hardware, productizing new technology.
• Experience with media processing, microphone processing, psychoacoustic processing, filter design, audio and system tuning.
• Experience in wearable audio systems design, tuning, and validation, including power and thermal considerations for micro-acoustics.
• Experience in audio technology system integration.
• Experience in objective and subjective audio quality assessment.

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits