Sr Electroacoustic Engineer

Electroacoustic Engineer

Bring your electroacoustic engineering expertise to Starkey and help design the next generation of innovative hearing technology—from concept and prototyping through verification and production. This role offers the opportunity to work across acoustics, electronics, and signal integrity while solving complex product challenges and directly shaping the performance and reliability of advanced hearing devices and accessories.

Starkey is a world leader in the manufacturing and distribution of advanced hearing technologies. We are in the business of connecting people and changing lives. Our teams come to work each day focused on ensuring people everywhere have the products and services they need to hear better and live better.

Founded in 1967 by Bill Austin, Starkey is known for our cutting-edge hearing health innovations, industry-leading research and development, and not being afraid to push the edge of what's possible.

We are headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, have over 5,000 employees in 29 facilities across the globe, and do business in more than 100 markets worldwide.

This position is responsible for planning, concepting, prototyping, component selection, designing, verifying, and documenting hearing aid electroacoustic hardware (PCBAs) and other electroacoustic elements in Starkey products, including RIC, BTE, ITC, ITE, CIC, IIC, hearing protection devices, and accessories. Working closely with Acoustic, Electrical, and Signal Integrity engineers, this position is responsible for fulfilling product requirements, adhering to industry standards, implementing design guidelines, creating design specifications, and maintaining design processes/procedures.

Finally, this position is responsible for leading design, research, and/or operation groups in problem-solving for product-related issues to ensure successful design transfer to production and sustained production.

Job responsibilities/results:

• Concept design, prototype evaluation, component selection
  • Plan and create novel designs for integrating new platforms/transducers to meet product requirements
  • Plan and run simulation, and rapid prototype evaluation of new concepts for early risk reduction
  • Plan and create decision analysis and documentation of component selection
  • Execute business initiatives throughout all design and release phases
• Electroacoustic design and verification
  • Plan and create parameters and model design, verification, review, and release
  • Plan and execute electroacoustic product performance specification creation and release
  • Lead troubleshooting issues throughout the design and release phases
  • Document and knowledge sharing of novel findings as training for the rest of the EE teams
• Product requirements verification and design transfer
  • Decompose product-level electroacoustic requirement and verify at the subsystem and component level
  • Perform formal product life cycle management (PLM) releases of electroacoustic designs to production and homologation reporting for governmental registration/contacts
  • Enforce electroacoustic specifications and fabrication configurations (internal/external)
  • Execute failure analysis of product design, testing, processes, and field issues
• Continuous improvement
  • Create design and verification processes, procedures, and improvement updates
  • Enhance competence of available tools and stay abreast of industry trends
  • Stay abreast of new standards, requirements, and contracts for homologation into new/existing products
  • Support seeking and maturing hearing aid artifact reduction technologies/evaluation methods for implementation

Job requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical Engineering, Acoustic Engineering, or related field
• OR
• Master of Science (MS) in Electrical Engineering, Acoustic Engineering, or related field
• OR
• Doctorate of Science (PhD) in Electrical Engineering, Acoustic Engineering, or related field

Experience:

• Minimum 7 years of relevant design, testing, and transfer experience in a product development environment with BS
• Minimum 5 years of relevant design, testing, and transfer experience in a product development environment with MS
• Minimum 2 years of relevant design, testing, and…