Audio System Specialist | ANC

Apple

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About The Position

At Apple, 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. Apple 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 Apple Acoustics, we work with the utmost attention to detail, directly
impacting the design of products that millions of people around the world love!
The Audio Technology team at Beats Electronics drives the design and integration
of advanced audio features across the Beats product line. We share a passion for
music, acoustics, and developing the highest quality sound systems. You’ll often
find us at the intersection of computational algorithms and physical acoustic
systems. Our focus is active noise cancellation, adaptive EQ, spatial audio, and
more. If this is up your alley, we want to hear from you!

DESCRIPTION

As an Audio System Specialist with Beats Electronics, you will specify, develop,
integrate, tune, and verify ANC performance on Beats headphone and earphone
products. In this role, you will drive system design, modeling, and tuning of
audio processing features in Apple products, specifically focusing on active
noise cancellation. You will have an opportunity to work on development and
analysis of both hardware and software components using a combination of
acoustic and DSP skills. As part of the product development team, you will work
independently as the main Acoustics point-of-contact for ANC performance;
interact with Beats/Apple Engineering counterparts and supplier engineering
teams to ensure performance targets and delivery milestones are met. You will
develop & demo ANC system prototypes, characterize and communicate performance
to the team, perform competitive evaluation and benchmarking.

Requirements

• Most of our engineers have advanced degrees in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or an equivalent field, but if you’ve followed a different path to expertise in Audio Engineering, we still want to hear from you
• 5+ years relevant product development experience in ANC technology

Nice To Haves

• Digital signal processing (DSP), including adaptive filtering active noise cancellation and optimization of performance of these algorithms in devices
• Speaker control and protection algorithms, including design, implementation and validation of real-time control systems for enhancing speaker performance
• Algorithm prototyping in simulation software such as MATLAB and real-time hardware platform Acoustic prototyping including experimentation in anechoic chambers and audio/acoustic measurement tools
• Listening skills for diagnosing problems in product sound quality

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees