Audio Hardware Manager

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Due to the current health crisis related to COVID-19 and the escalating visa/travel restrictions in place, we’re currently unable to extend offers to anyone who cannot work from Taiwan due to lockdown visa/travel restrictions, or other restrictive measures until further notice. Consequently, we will be prioritizing candidates who can start in this location by set date as expected. We’re keeping the situation under review and would adjust our position should the restrictive measures be removed later on.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience developing end-to-end mobile audio systems, including transducers, acoustics design, signal chain tuning, and performance measurement.
• Experience working with cross functional teams: mechanical, audio software, operations, reliability, and test engineering.
• Experience in managing teams and presenting data and progress in executive reviews.

Preferred qualifications:

• Consumer hardware experience.

About The Job

Our computational challenges are so big, complex and unique we can’t just purchase off-the-shelf hardware, we’ve got to make it ourselves. Your team designs and builds the hardware, software and networking technologies that power all of Google’s services. As a Hardware Engineer, you design and build the systems that are the heart of the world’s largest and most powerful computing infrastructure. You develop from the lowest levels of circuit design to large system design and see those systems all the way through to high volume manufacturing. Your work has the potential to shape the machinery that goes into our cutting-edge data centers affecting millions of Google users.

The Audio Hardware team delivers acoustics and audio solutions for all consumer hardware projects. Our team has acoustics designers, electrical engineers, and audio DSP experts engaged from concept through to mass production. In this role, you’ll lead development of audio technology.

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Only one thing consistently stands in the way between our users and the world’s information - hardware. Our Hardware team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make our user’s interaction with computing faster, more powerful, and seamless. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, our Hardware team is making people’s lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of audio and acoustic engineers focused on developing an audio systems platform for products.
• Work with cross functional teams to identify and develop appropriate technology vendors.
• Plan and execute prototype builds with progressive performance enhancements.
• Develop complete audio systems.

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