Job Listing Description

Summary:

• At PDS, extraordinary ideas have a way of quickly becoming extraordinary products, services and customer experiences.
• Sound is an essential and compelling facet of the customer experience.
• Our company has assembled an elite Acoustics team that enables our customers to experience music with delight, communicate with clarity, and enjoy elegant sound throughout our product line.
• In Our company Acoustics we work with the utmost attention to detail, directly impacting the design of products that millions of people around the world love!
• Our Audio Systems Engineering team develops and integrates new audio features for our companies products.
• We are a team of diverse engineers coming together to create prototypes of innovative audio technologies and guiding their implementation into our companies products.
• We work openly and collaboratively throughout our companies deeply-connected engineering and product development teams.
• We are looking for a Acoustic Technologist to help to take our products to the next level. Could this be you?

Description:

• The primary activity of the Acoustic Technologist is to develop signal processing techniques to extract and enhance acoustic signals inside and outside on the audible range.
• Candidate in this role will be working with various sensor extracted signals to combine information for processing and analysis.
• Activities will include (but not be limited to) preprocessing, prototyping & evaluation of DSP/acoustic features for signal extraction, algorithm prototyping.
• You will work with multi-functional teams to optimize and improve algorithms across various sensors and prototypes.
• In this role you will be able to experiment with sensor fusion methods to design the optimal signal processing chain for maximizing performance.

Key Qualifications

• Experience working with audio signal processing, signal extraction, time-frequency analysis and algorithm prototyping/development.
• Experience working with acoustic feature extraction and machine learning models
• Experience working with time series analysis of unstructured data
• Good understanding of DSP and filtering techniques. e.g band pass filtering, wavelet transform, FFT analysis etc
• Proficiency with acoustic measurements of speakers and microphones
• Proficiency in Matlab, Python, Max-MSP tools
• Understanding of physical/room acoustics is a plus
• C++ coding skills are a plus
• Experience shipping high-complexity, high-volume consumer electronics is desired

Education & Experience:

• Most of our engineers have advanced degrees in Electrical engineering, Acoustics, Signal Processing, Electronics or an equivalent field, but if you’ve followed a different path to expertise in acoustics or sound quality, we still want to hear from you.