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Job Description
Job Description
Be a part of the growing international engineering team that seeks to deliver experiences to every place where audio matters! The Bose Audio Technology Licensing group is seeking a passionate, hands-on Acoustical Systems Engineer, based in Shenzhen, China, to take part in supporting our dynamic needs as we develop partnerships across many industries – all with the goal of finding new opportunities to widely deploy Bose technologies. You will be a key member of our cross-functional team, working closely with your Bose colleagues and external partners, both local and abroad, to successfully develop and deliver our technologies to end-consumers.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with engineering team members to design, measure, tune, and test audio devices, across a wide range of form factors and product categories, covering wearables and out-loud devices
- Investigate and develop acoustical system design concepts to achieve product performance requirements
- Investigate and develop digital signal processing solutions to achieve product performance requirements
- Use simulation tools to design and predict acoustical system behavior
- Define and characterize physical prototypes of acoustical systems
- Conduct acoustical measurements of components, subsystems, and full assemblies, and perform thorough analysis of results
- Work directly with DSP engineers and external partners to develop and tune system performance and signal processing algorithms
- Clearly communicate results through peer reviews and external customer-facing engagements
- Collaborate with external engineering partners to develop and validate physical acoustical designs and signal processing capabilities to meet product performance requirements
- Collaborate with Audio Technology Business Development and Product Management teams to support early technical engagements with new partners
- Travel (domestic and international) may be required, up to 8-10 weeks per year
Minimum Qualifications:
- BS required in Acoustical, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering
- 5+ years of direct acoustic design experience of high-performance audio products
- 3+ years of hands-on acoustic test / measurement experience
- Fluency in spoken and written American English
- Critical listening skills (system voicing, audio mixing, music production, musical instrument experience, etc)
- Knowledge of MATLAB for acoustical measurements as well as algorithm simulation / development. Simulink and SimScape knowledge a plus
- Knowledge of headphone and wearable acoustical structures, speaker enclosure and port design, and noise cancellation technology a plus
- Basic understanding of transducer design, lumped parameter models, micro drivers, ECM, and MEMS microphones
- Experience specifying requirements for acoustical components, including: loudspeakers, micro-speakers, microphones, acoustic meshes
- Knowledge of voice communications techniques and microphone systems, including: beamforming, speech processing, acoustic echo cancellation, voice activity detection
- Strong understanding of acoustical test / measurement systems and techniques
- Experience using and selecting acoustical test equipment from B&K, GRAS, Audio Precision, National Instruments, Listen Inc. (SoundCheck), and others
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