Research Scientist V

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Technology and IT

Location:

Redmond, WA

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Our technology client is seeking a Research scientist to join their team.

Job Title:

Research scientist

Location:

Redmond WA Pay Range: $75-$80/hr What’s the Job?

Overview Meta's Reality Labs Research Audio team is advancing the science of augmented hearing: technology that helps people hear better in the situations where hearing is hardest. We are looking for a Research Scientist with deep hearing-science expertise to lead and execute research programs in hearing-assistive technology. In this role you will drive hearing-science research end to end: setting direction for your own studies, executing established research programs, and evaluating signal-processing approaches against human performance.

This is a hands-on role. You will design and run listening studies, prototype and assess algorithms, and translate findings into direction for future hearing technologies.

Responsibilities Define and drive research direction for hearing-science programs, independently scoping and executing studies that advance hearing-assistive technology Execute established research plans through design, data collection, analysis, and reporting Design and run listening experiments and human-subject studies, including participant protocols, stimulus design, and psychoacoustic measurement Prototype, tune, and evaluate hearing-assistive signal-processing algorithms and fitting approaches Analyze experimental data and communicate findings clearly to research, engineering, and product partners Collaborate onsite with audio researchers, hardware engineers, and software engineers to translate scientific results into system requirements Document methods and results to ensure continuity and knowledge transfer across the team

Minimum Qualifications PhD in Hearing Science, Audiology, Auditory Neuroscience, Acoustics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical research experience Demonstrated domain expertise in hearing science and psychoacoustics Hands-on experience with hearing-aid or hearing-assistive signal processing (e.g., amplification, compression, noise reduction, directionality, feedback management) and fitting approaches Experience designing, executing, and analyzing human-subject listening studies Technical proficiency sufficient to independently prototype algorithms and experimental tooling (e.g., MATLAB, Python) Proven experience driving research direction independently with minimal supervision Available to work onsite in Redmond, WA Preferred Qualifications

Experience with speech-in-noise measurement and speech intelligibility enhancement

Experience with wearable or head-worn audio devices

Experience with microphone arrays, beamforming, or spatial audio processing Track record of publications in hearing science, audiology, or audio signal processing venues Experience partnering with cross-functional hardware and software teams in a product research environment

Key Projects/Day-to-Day Responsibilities meta-trimmers — direct their own studies on this workstream, setting study direction to keep the program advancing toward NTI SIN on glasses — carry on already-planned studies, continuing execution rather than redefining scope Design and run listening/human-subject studies: protocols, stimulus design, psychoacoustic measurement Prototype, tune, and evaluate hearing-assistive signal-processing algorithms and fitting approaches Analyze data and communicate findings to research, engineering, and product partners;

document methods for continuity

How will performance be measured? Continued progress of meta-trimmers toward its NTI milestones On-schedule execution of the already-planned SIN on glasses studies…