Audio System Engineer

The Meta Mixed Reality Audio Team (MR Audio) is looking for experienced Audio Systems Engineer to support development of the next generation of Meta devices. Successful candidates will have extensive experience in audio development for consumer electronics, bridging workstreams between R&D with manufacturing, communicating effectively with cross-functional teams across Asia, and globally. The best fit for the role will communicate effectively while representing MR Audio with cross-functional hardware teams, relating customer experience with quantitative and qualitative data. We take a hard stance on audio experience and build quality for Meta products, thus high quality presentation of audio data to other functions is critical to ensure successful audio experiences. A successful Audio Systems Engineer will drive engineering success by collaborating with domain experts, owning the system level performance outcomes.

• Supplement and collaborate with global design team effort in early new product development
• Collaborate with global design partners across Meta, feeding back design change recommendations to ensure audio success.
• Engage with Meta's vendors (loudspeakers, microphones, DSP, test fixtures, etc) to solve issues.
• Develop acoustic test protocols and methods with testing teams and equipment suppliers. Own audio requirements for testers, such as capabilities vs testing requirements, and certify for use.
• Support and own engineering build success, ensuring the audio system performs as designed.
• Drive and report on build readiness, driving equipment, testing, and SOP development.
• Troubleshoot and solve acoustic-mechanical challenges.
• Drive factory failure analysis and corrective action follow-up, directly and through additional FA resources. Drive root cause analysis.
• Audio system design and production process review.
• Own limit setting execution across modules and system, ensuring SOP is followed. Review limits with the audio team to achieve sign-off.
• Leverage CM and Meta labs for primary audio verification.
• Provide subjective and objective performance evaluation, data collection and recording.
• Collaborate with SQE and PQE teams, ensuring process control is established and maintained.

• BS degree in Acoustics, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
• 7+ years experience delivering consumer audio electronics to the market.
• Familiar with audio and acoustic concepts: Frequency Response, THD, R&B, Noise Levels, SNR, echo, Double Talk, Beamforming, Noise Suppression, DRC, AGC, ANC, etc.
• Experienced professional with a history of working with CM, JDM and ODM.
• Experience with subjective listening, including audio signal and acoustic systems subjective performance evaluation. Understand voice quality evaluation in telecommunication and audio performance in playback systems.
• Experience in audio signal analysis and audio systems tuning. Demonstrate a good understanding of digital signal processing and experience with DSP tuning.
• Skills troubleshooting and data analysis skills. Experienced with audio failure analysis.
• Experience with audio and acoustic test and measurement tools for engineering evaluation and factory testing. Experience developing and troubleshooting Soundcheck sequences.
• Proven communication skills and experience working across disciplines to drive optimal solutions.

• Experience with Mobile audio devices or IOT audio devices development
• Experience in physical acoustics and transducer design. Familiar with acoustic simulation tools.
• Familiarity with mechanical design principles, FEA, and advanced materials.
• Skilled with Matlab, Python or equivalent languages in signal processing or test scripts development.
• Background for high-volume production. Familiar with Six Sigma project tools