Acoustical Engineer - Wearables

At Bose Corporation, we believe sound is the most powerful force on earth — and for over 60 years, we have been a company built on innovation, excellence, and independence. Privately owned, fiercely customer-focused, and driven by our values, we continue to lead industries and transform lives through sound. Today, Bose Corporation is entering an exciting new era. Across multiple global Business Units and Global Functions, we are shaping the future of audio technology, automotive, luxury, and premium experiences.

We invite you to join us in this transformation.

Job Description Be a part of the growing Audio 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 Engineer 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 to successfully develop and deliver our technologies to end consumers.

Hybrid Working Environment: 3-days/week on-site presence is required, 5 days is preferable.

Responsibilities:

Collaborate with engineering team members to design, build, and test headphone products with audio playback, active noise cancellation, and voice pickup features

Investigate and develop acoustic system design concepts to achieve product performance requirements

Use simulation tools to predict acoustic system behavior

Define, build, and characterize physical prototypes of acoustic systems

Conduct acoustic measurements of components, subsystems, and full assemblies and perform analysis of results

Define and develop novel acoustic test methods as needed to improve understanding of system behaviors

Work directly with DSP and controls engineers to tune and optimize system performance

Clearly communicate results through informal peer reviews and at formal design reviews

Collaborate with teammates to define, specify, and validate production test equipment and processes

Support prototype and production system builds both on-location at the factory and remotely

Root cause acoustic failures and recommend design changes to prevent recurrence

Travel (domestic and international) required, approximately 4-8 weeks per year under normal circumstances

Qualifications:

BS required in Acoustical, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, MS Preferred2+ years of direct acoustic design experience of high performance portable audio products2+ years of hands-on acoustic test experience

Knowledge of headphone acoustic structures and enclosure/porting design

Critical Listening skills with a passion for music and audio quality

Knowledge of psychoacoustics and speech quality evaluation

Experience with active noise cancellation technology is highly desirable

Strong understanding of acoustic test and measurement systems and techniques

Experience using and selecting acoustic test equipment from B&K, GRAS, Audio Precision, National Instruments, Listen Inc. (Sound Check), and others

Experience specifying requirements for acoustic component including drivers, microphones, and acoustic meshes

Familiarity with acoustic array design for communications mic systems, beamforming, speech processing, acoustic echo cancellation, and voice activity detection

Basic understanding of transducer design, lumped parameter models, micro drivers, ECM, and MEMS microphones

Familiar with lumped element or FEA acoustic modeling using PSpice, Comsol, or other tools

Competent using Matlab for data analysis and visualization

Experience developing products with Bluetooth and/or other wireless technologies is…