Electrical Engineer Audio Research

The Reality Labs Research Audio Team is looking for an Audio Research Electrical Engineer to help bring cutting edge virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences and hardware to life. In our Research & Advanced Development projects, we are setting out to fundamentally transform how people interact with sound; bringing these experiences to the daily lives of billions of people.In this role, you will be cooperating with engineers and researchers to concept, design, and build the next generation of research hardware systems that enable social VR and AR. You will be collaborating and contributing at a technical level and guiding the efforts of team members supporting you; including vendors and manufacturing partners. You will be responsible for intaking requirements from researchers and engineers, defining optimized workflows, identifying risks and associated mitigation plans, and clearly communicating to program stakeholders. You will drive the design of hardware that includes audio and power supply circuitry, small microcontrollers, large System On Chip devices, FPGAs, MEMS sensors, and cameras.

• Drive electrical development for audio hardware in a highly cross-functional team environment
• Architect, design, and debug all circuits for audio chain (including codecs, embedded DSPs, amplifiers, and microphones)
• Audio system design, definition, and ownership (i.e. render/capture/amplifier/power delivery/audio chain)
• Develop POC demos to establish performance, gaining cross-functional and leadership buy-in
• Collaborate with Research Scientists, Research Engineers, and Product Development Engineers to establish performance metrics for research technologies from low to high maturity

• 5+ years of experience working across one or more of the following areas: audio, wearable, and/or consumer electronics devices
• Proficient in designing and debugging Analog and Digital circuits
• Experience with circuit simulations and modeling utilizing: SPICE simulation (filter design, frequency analysis, transient analysis), Altium, Cadence Orcad, or similar schematic capture layout tool
• Experience leading and driving electrical design development from schematic capture, PCB layout through assembly
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Acoustics, or equivalent experience

• Experience with integration and analysis of sensors (Cameras, IMUs, Accelerometers, Mics etc.)
• Circuit design experience with Microcontrollers and programmable logic / FPGAs
• Experience with bringing up and debugging high-speed digital systems
• Experience integrating Radio Frequency technologies such as WIFI, Bluetooth, GPS, etc