Principal Audiological Engineer

This is a high-impact opportunity for a senior hearing-science expert to shape the next generation of hearing technology, translating audiology, acoustics, and signal-processing expertise into products that deliver measurable clinical benefit and an exceptional real-world listening experience. As a Principal Audiological Engineer, you’ll provide technical leadership from concept through launch, influence cross-functional product decisions, solve complex audiological and system-level challenges, and mentor teams while helping define the future direction of Starkey’s hearing solutions.

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.

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The Principal Audiological Engineer, Product Development provides technical leadership for translating hearing science, audiology, acoustics, and signal-processing knowledge into market-ready hearing products. The role leads to product-focused definition, integration, evaluation, and optimization of hearing-aid features from concept selection through design transfer and launch readiness. Working across Product Development, Audio Systems, Algorithm, Firmware, Hardware, Fitting, Verification, Clinical, Quality, Manufacturing, and Product Management teams, the Principal Audiological Engineer drives evidence-based technical decisions, resolves complex product issues, and ensures that solutions deliver measurable clinical benefit, robust real-world performance, and a differentiated user experience.

The role mentors technical teams and shapes practices, methods, and technology direction that support best-in-class hearing solutions.

Operates with little to no supervision, influences across functions and programs, and is accountable for decisions with significant product and business impact.

• Product Development Leadership
  • Provide strategic vision and technical leadership for the audiological design, evaluation, and optimization of hearing aid features, ensuring the integrity of the end-to-end audiological experience.
  • Provide audiological guidance for product and system design decisions, ensuring that audibility, speech intelligibility, listening comfort, sound quality, and patient benefit are appropriately represented in cross-functional tradeoffs.
  • Lead audiological work for new product development programs, with a primary focus on hearing aids and their core audio and fitting capabilities.
  • Translate patient, clinician, market, and business needs into clear product performance objectives, use cases, technical recommendations, and measurable acceptance criteria.
  • Provide technical leadership from product concept and architecture through implementation, integration, verification, validation, design transfer, launch, and post-launch learning.
  • Serve as the hearing-science and audiological technical leader for assigned product programs and drive cross-functional decisions and actions to closure.
• Feature Definition, Design and Integration
  • Define and mature product concepts for amplification, compression, directionality, noise reduction, feedback management, frequency shaping, scene adaptation, personalization, and fitting-related capabilities.
  • Partner with algorithms, firmware, hardware, acoustics, fitting, systems, and verification teams to integrate candidate solutions into product platforms.
  • Lead product-level tradeoffs involving speech audibility and intelligibility, sound quality, listening comfort, stability, acoustic coupling, fitting flexibility, latency, power, memory, usability, manufacturability, schedule, and cost.
  • Identify integration gaps and feature interactions early, establish mitigation plans, and verify that the integrated behavior remains robust across devices, configurations, acoustic fits, and real-world use conditions.
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