Audio Engineer

Meta Reality Labs Wearables Audio Technology Team is looking for an Acoustics/Audio Engineer who has research, design, implementation, and project leading skills. The ideal engineer employs demonstrated experience in theoretical and practical acoustics, electro-mechano-acoustic simulations, audio signal processing and hands-on prototyping capabilities.Audio Engineer Responsibilities

• Research, design, and advance the state of the art in precision sound reproduction.
• Work closely with an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers to evaluate the performance of existing transducers to help push the design envelope for the next generation of high-performance audio devices.
• Develop advanced numerical simulation techniques to solve complex, unsolved problems in the area of acoustics, spatial audio, and signal processing with applications in Smart Glasses and AR Glasses.
• Study and advance the state of the art in audio signal processings and acoustic transducers.
• Conduct acoustic tests and create related metrics.
• Characterize novel materials and new devices.
• Work closely with engineers to design and prototype audio devices.
• Validate the prototypes from simulations and measurements.
• Work with external vendors for fabrication and manufacturing.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in acoustics, electro-mechano-acoustic simulations and prototyping.
• Demonstrated experience in design, implementation, research and project leading skills.
• Demonstrated experience in Matlab, COMSOL, and equivalent tools
• M.S. or Ph.D in AE, ME, Physics or EE.
• Decisive, action-oriented team player who learns quickly and takes ownership of open issues.
• Experience with a variety of acoustic test equipment such as RME, Klippel, SoundCheck, Audio Precision, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with MATLAB, COMSOL, Klippel RnD, Audio Precision
• Familiarity with microfabrication
• Familiarity with dynamic and/or piezoelectric transducers
• Familiarity with MEMS development
• Familiarity with audio signal processing

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