Audio Engineer (APAC)

The Meta Wearables Audio Technology Team (WATT) is looking for experienced Audio Engineers to support development for the next generation of Meta devices. Successful candidates will have extensive experience in audio development for consumer electronics, bridging workstreams between R&D with manufacturing, communicating effectively with crossfunctional teams across Asia and USA. The best fit for the role will communicate effectively, representing WATT with cross-functional hardware teams while relating customer experience with quantitative and qualitative data. We take a hard stance on audio experience and build quality for Meta products, thus high quality presentation of audio data to other functions is critical to ensure successful audio experiences. A successful Audio Engineer will drive engineering success by collaborating with domain experts, owning the system level performance outcomes.

• Support and own engineering build success, ensuring the audio system performs as designed.
• Drive and report on build readiness, driving equipment, testing, and SOP development.
• Troubleshoot and solve acoustical-mechanical challenges.
• Drive factory failure analysis and corrective action follow-up, directly and through additional FA resources. Drive root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with US partners, feeding back design change recommendations to ensure audio success.
• Audio system design and production process review.
• Own limit setting execution across module and system, ensuring SOP is followed. Review limits with audio team to achieve sign-off.
• Leverage CM and Meta labs for primary audio verification.
• Provide subjective and objective performance evaluation, data collection and recording.
• Collaborate with SQE and PQE teams, ensuring process control is established and maintained.
• Develop acoustic test stations with testing team and equipment suppliers. Own audio requirements for testers, such as capabilities vs testing requirements, and certify for use.
• Engage with local vendors (loudspeakers, microphones, DSP, test fixtures, etc) as needed to solve issues.

• BS degree in Acoustics, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent similar experience.
• 10+ years experience delivering consumer audio electronics to the market.
• Familiar with audio and acoustic concepts: Frequency Response, THD, R&B, Noise Levels, SNR, echo, Double Talk, Beamforming, Noise Suppression, DRC, AGC, and ANC etc.,
• Experienced professional with a history of working with contract manufacturers, JDM and ODM.
• Experience with subjective listening, including audio signal and acoustic systems subjective performance evaluation. Understand voice quality evaluation in telecommunication and audio performance in playback system.
• Experienced in audio signal analysis. Understanding digital signal processing and experience with DSP tuning.
• Demonstrated skills troubleshooting and data analysis skills. Experienced with audio failure analysis.
• Experience with audio and acoustic test and measurement tools for engineering evaluation and factory testing. Experience developing and troubleshooting Soundcheck sequences.
• Advanced written and oral English, enabling regular communication with the design team globally.
• Proven communication skills and experience working across disciplines to drive optimal solutions.

• Experience with Mobile audio devices or IOT audio devices development
• Experience in physical acoustics and transducer design. Familiar with acoustic simulation tools.
• Familiarity with mechanical design principles, FEA, and advanced materials.
• Capability with Matlab, Python or equivalent languages in signal processing or test scripts development.
• Background for high-volume production. Familiar with Six Sigma project tools