Engineer, DSP

HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

A Career at HARMAN Lifestyle

We’re a global, multi-disciplinary team that’s putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. As a member of HARMAN Lifestyle, you connect consumers with the power of superior sound.

• Contribute your talents to high-end, esteemed brands like JBL, Mark Levinson and Revel
• Unite your passion for audio innovation with high-tech product development
• Create pitch-perfect, cutting-edge technology that elevates the listening experience

About the Role

The Advance audio engineer (Microphone) will be responsible for microphone selection and microphone system design, pre-processing solution evaluation and tuning, will verification and determine voice recognition and communication performance of Harman products.

What You Will Do

• According to product application evaluate and select proper microphone component.
• Lead the microphone voice system engineering to design of all the Harman Lifestyle division products, such as conference speaker, TWS/OWS/headband headset and smart speaker, standalone mic (Karaoke mic, wireless mic, Podcast mic).
• Develop microphone voice system, like as mic location and waveguide design through acoustic test and simulation, wind noise test and simulation, product prototypes build and verification.
• Evaluate and verify internal and external microphone processing solution, and apply to Harman voice communication, voice recognition and high-quality standalone mic products etc.
• Analyze Harman internal projects and external customers’ requirements and specifications to propose the appropriate solutions to award the project and execute the engineering function on mic part through the full program cycle.
• Work with projects team leaders and PM to solve the microphone engineering issues.
• Communicate with peers inside the HARMAN Consumer Audio Product group for product development. This includes occasional travel for training or coordination with other groups and suppliers to HM.

What You Need

• 5+ year’s acoustics background experience, with rich audio and project experience.
• Working knowledge of acoustics telecommunications, including various types of microphone systems, speaker systems, voice calling, voice recognition, recording and microphone related standard certification.
• Very good understanding of principles of acoustics engineering, especially for microphone component and system design, know the parameters and application for MEMS and ECM mic.
• Experience on MEMS/ECM mic acoustic design, verification, and application like FR, sensitivity, THD, SNR, AOP, sealing, coupling, vibration etc.
• Working knowledge of digital signal processing, mic algorithm tuning experience for beamforming, echo cancellation, noise suppression, AGC etc.
• Familiar with some of telecommunications test standard, like as TIA, Teams, Zoom.
• Familiar with voice recognition test like as Amazon AVS and Google GVA.
• Working knowledge for call performance subjective and objective test and evaluation for headset and conference products.
• Must have acoustic analysis and debugging capability using some of software tools like as MATLAB, Adobe Audition etc.
• Solid experience to use acoustic test platform and equipment such as ACQUA, Soundcheck, AP, Gras, and B&K equipment etc.
• Familiar with DSP signal processing and have capability to communicate with algorithm and chip supplier.
• Familiar with Embedded system platform, such as SoC or DSP chip.
• Familiar with NPI project process and know the input/output for general NPI stage.
• Willingness to develop new technologies especially for mic and voice pickup related.
• Oral English communication ability for issue and solution discussion.

What is Nice to Have

• Working knowledge of traditional and AI base call solution like as beamforming, noise reduction, echo cancelation etc.
• Working knowledge of COMSOL simulation.
• Knowledge of dynamic mic and bone conduction sensor.
• Good temperament and ability to work with suppliers and ODM from different cultures.
• Verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Creative problem-solver capable of creating and reproducing complex defects.
• Familiar with manufacturing processes commonly used in acoustics and electronics assemblies.
• Build environment of trust, high performance, and engagement by establishing clear goals and a commitment to feedback, development and recognition
• Champion a better, faster and simpler way of doing things.
• Apply original thinking and continuous improvement to processes, products, systems or services and manage change to better serve customer needs.

What Makes You Eligible

• Willingness to travel 10% of the time
• Willingness to work in an office in Shenzhen
• Willingness to submit to a background screen and a drug test.
• Participate in internal and co-development design reviews throughout product development life cycles.
• Define mic production test spec according to product category.
• Microphone component/array/structure and algorithm related new technology 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.