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Location:
Shenzhen - Guangdong, China
Job Family:
Engineering
Worker Type Reference:
Regular - Permanent
Pay Rate Type:
Salary
JOB ID:
R-41082-2024

Description & Requirements

About the Role

This role is responsible for the microphone system designing, tuning and optimizing end-to-end for Smart Speaker, Conference Speaker, Earphones, Headphone, Helmet, Wireless Mic, TV, and soundbar product category for Harman Embedded Audio, ensuring that microphone system performance will continue to be competitive advantage in all products and solutions.

Your Team

This position doesn’t have subordinates.


What You Will Do

  • Lead the mic system engineering design of Harman Embedded Audio products
  • Participate in meetings with customer and system engineer to understand the requirements of new opportunities
  • Provide high level architectural design of the mic system to meet requirements and different user cases, including the mic component, acoustic design, DSP, algorithm
  • Responsible for design, development, optimization, & implementation of voice solution into consumer electronics products
  • Assess and benchmark the voice related technologies in the market
  • Design voice signal processing flow to ensure voice performance and quality
  • Develop mic system technology, product prototypes and manufacturing processes to aid external based on internal or 3rd party’s solutions and technologies
  • Develop methodologies and procedures that improve voice performance and quality
  • Test, tune, debug and certify the mic system to make sure the system can meet customer requirements and perform voice related issues root cause analysis
  • Cooperate with other project team members and even customers and suppliers to run the project by following the HEA NPI Process
  • Shares knowledge and assists team members who are less experienced or knowledgeable

What You Need

  • Bachelor’s degree or above in acoustic, electrical, mechanical or computer science
  • 12+ years acoustics background experience
  • Full of experience in the mic component design, mic acoustic design, mic algorithm tuning, mic system testing
  • Familiar with voice processing of people to people, people to machine, including but not limited to AEC, NR, BF, AGC, EQ, and know the effects of the algorithm parameters
  • Understand about the AVS, GVA and TEAMS certification
  • Skilled use of various mic design tools, like Soundcheck, AP, HATS, Audacity, etc.
  • Understand the mainstream DSP in the market and their characteristics
  • Good communication skill and show professional knowledge when discuss with the suppliers and customers
  • Excellent verbal and written in English

What is Nice to Have

  • Ability to handle a variety of projects simultaneously
  • Ability to work in a quickly changing environment

What Makes You Eligible

  • Willingness to domestic or international travel for business needs
  • Willingness to work in an office
  • Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen

What We Offer

  • Flexible work environment
  • Access to employee discounts on world-class Harman and Samsung products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, etc.)
  • Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University
  • Competitive wellness benefits
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development

HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.