Audio Electrical Engineer, Google Nest

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of industry experience.
• Experience with Consumer Hardware.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Acoustics, or a related field.
• Experience with one or more of the following: DSP tuning, acoustics design, speakers, or microphones.
• Experience with MATLAB or Python, developing automated test tools for objective audio testing.
• Experience using audio amplifiers (e.g., smart PA, class D amp, class G amp), audio codec, audio DSP, etc.
• Experience with Soundcheck, Audio Precision, HEAD Acoustics, Ares or Comsol. Ability to use industry standard schematic capture tools and layout implementations of responsible subsection.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.
  
  

About the jobGoogle engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. As a member of an extraordinarily creative, motivated and talented team, you develop new products that are used by millions of people. We need our engineers to be versatile and passionate to take on new problems as we continue to push technology forward. If you get excited about building new things and working across discipline lines, then our team might be your next career step.

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user’s interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people’s lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Define the audio subsystem for consumer electronics devices ensuring that product features and requirements and mapped to system design.
• Evaluate audio amplifiers and microphones to ensure performance and features meet performance needs. Collaborate with internal stakeholders and drive vendors to meet our next generation requirements.
• Help develop audio schematics and review printed circuit board (PCB) layouts to ensure best practices are maintained (e.g. bring up and validation of the design will be part of each design cycle).
• Work with cross-functional teams to help deliver proper audio digital signal processing (DSP) tuning for telephony, speech recognition, and media playback use cases.
• Contribute to our roadmap by investigating new technologies and delivering new features.
  
  

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