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Get Access To All JobsJOB TITLE: Audio Render Tuning Engineer
LOCATION: Redmond, WA (Onsite)
DURATION: 12 months
PAY RANGE: $75 - $85/hr.
MUST HAVE SKILLS:
- Hands-on DSP tuning on a speaker-type device. This is the single most important requirement. Knowing about these algorithms or having tested them is not sufficient — the candidate must have personally performed the tuning.
- Audio DSP fundamentals. Must understand what equalization, dynamic range compression, limiting, and speaker protection do, how they function, how they are used, and what the trade-offs are.
- Ability to apply and tune existing algorithms on an audio system (an audio systems engineer profile). Writing algorithms from scratch is not required.
NICE TO HAVE SKILLS:
- Direct AR/VR glasses or other head-worn audio device experience.
- Transducer-level characterization and speaker integration experience (T/S parameters, Klippel, impedance, excursion).
- Exposure to embedded audio middleware or firmware-level audio bring-up (Audio Weaver, Qualcomm QACT, ADSP integration).
Position Summary:
We are looking for a contingent Audio Render Tuning Engineer to support the research AR glasses audio program. This role focuses on render-path DSP tuning of the speaker system using an internally developed embedded audio processing framework and tuning tools. The successful candidate will be hands-on in the lab, working closely with the Research Audio team to deliver a tuned, shipping-quality speaker experience. This is an opportunity to own the audio tuning of a next-generation research AR glasses device end to end. The contractor will work inside the Research organization on Aria 2+, a data-collection glasses platform used by researchers, and will have a direct, visible impact on how the device sounds. The role offers a rare combination of deep hands-on lab work — anechoic chamber measurement, electroacoustic characterization, subjective listening evaluation — with exposure to an internally developed embedded audio DSP framework and tuning toolchain, supported by the internal tooling teams that build it. The contractor will collaborate closely with hardware, firmware, algorithms, mechanical, optics, and vendor partners, giving broad visibility across a full product development cycle from early samples through multiple hardware build stages. Because the work is research-driven prototyping with the intent of feeding future products, the contractor gets to shape technology at the earliest stage.
SURROUNDING TEAM & KEY PROJECTS:
This is an audio hardware team within the Research organization. The team builds prototypes and proof-of-concept hardware to support research work — future ideation and devices that may or may not ultimately appear on the product roadmap, though the intent is that the work eventually feeds into future products. This particular project is well defined: it is the next iteration of Aria Gen 2, a data-collection glasses device that provides to researchers. The CWAM’s team designs the hardware, working within a larger cross-functional group that includes mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, software engineers, and optics engineers. The team owns the audio components specifically — speakers, microphones, and the software and algorithms that process audio data for device features and data collection. The team designs the speaker and works with an external vendor on its implementation, then tests it. This contractor's role is to tune that system: applying software algorithms to optimize sound quality and measuring results against performance indicators.
TYPICAL DAY-TO-DAY IN THE ROLE:
- Measure the glasses in anechoic chamber or lab environment to collect raw performance data.
- Work with the cross-functional team to define or receive performance targets.
- Develop or tune existing software algorithms to adjust the audio output of the speakers, then re-measure and validate against those targets.
- Split time between hands-on lab work and development work at the desk.
- Set up and conduct subjective demos and listening tests with managers and leaders across the audio team and cross-functional teams.
- Work with suppliers on troubleshooting — understanding trade-offs, diagnosing why performance falls short of expectations, and finding ways to extract additional performance.
- Interface regularly with audio software engineers, mechanical engineers, audio hardware engineers, and vendor partners.
Responsibilities:
- Render DSP Tuning: Perform speaker render-path tuning for research AR glasses using the company's internally developed embedded audio DSP framework and associated MATLAB-based tuning tools
- Tuning Components: Design and apply equalization filters, tune dynamic range compression and limiter parameters to optimize loudness, dynamics, sound quality, and distortion across use cases (media, voice, speech) while preserving speaker integrity
- Speaker Characterization & Baseline Measurement: Measure devices to establish baseline performance, collect frequency response, distortion (THD), and impedance data in anechoic or controlled acoustic environments
- Tuning Profile Management: Generate, compile, and validate tuning profiles via internal tuning toolchain for deployment to device firmware
- Collaboration with Cross-Functional Teams: Work with hardware, firmware, algorithms, and research teams to align tuning with system-level requirements
- Documentation: Maintain tuning documentation, test reports, and configuration records for each tuning iteration and release candidate
- Tool Onboarding: Ramp up on internal audio DSP ecosystem including graphical pipeline editors, render tuning tools, and device control utilities with support from internal tooling teams
QUALIFICATIONS
- Prior experience performing audio systems render tuning for consumer electronics products (AR/VR glasses, hearables, headphones, wearables, telecom devices, smart speakers)
- Understanding of render DSP tuning approaches (EQ, DRC, limiting, speaker protection) and hands-on experience performing tuning in a lab environment
- Experience with electroacoustic measurement tools (e.g. Audio Precision (APx series), Listen SoundCheck, HEAD acoustics ACQUA) and measurement transducers
- Experience with MATLAB for audio signal processing, filter design, and tuning tool workflows
- Strong attention to detail and systematic approach to parameter optimization and documentation
- Ability to work independently on tuning tasks while collaborating with a broader audio engineering team
- Understanding of speaker protection algorithms (excursion limiting, thermal protection, brownout protection)
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Acoustics Engineering, or a related technical discipline
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience with speaker integration and transducer-level characterization (T/S parameters, Klippel, impedance, excursion)
- Exposure to DSP frameworks or audio middleware (AudioWeaver, Qualcomm QACT, or similar embedded audio toolchains)
- Experience with volume table tuning and perceptual loudness optimization
- Exposure to firmware-level audio bring-up or ADSP integration workflows
- Experience with capture-path audio tuning including any of beamforming and spatial filtering, noise suppression, wind noise rejection, wake-word/keyword detection and speech recognition testing, capture-path gain staging and mic array calibration
TARGET INDUSTRIES (STACK-RANKED):
- AR/VR glasses — top preference
- Hearables and headphones (earbuds, over-ear headphones)
- Wearables (watches or other worn devices with audio features)
- Telecom devices (mobile phones)
- Smart speakers (Alexa, Google Home, and similar)
Experience:
- 10+ years of overall experience
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Acoustics Engineering, or a related technical discipline
Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.
BENEFITS SUMMARY:
Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate or annual salary only, unless otherwise stated. In addition to base compensation, full-time roles are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Commuter and 401K benefits with company matching.
FAIR CHANCE POLICY:
Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.
JOB TITLE: Audio Render Tuning Engineer
LOCATION: Redmond, WA (Onsite)
DURATION: 12 months
PAY RANGE: $75 - $85/hr.
MUST HAVE SKILLS:
- Hands-on DSP tuning on a speaker-type device. This is the single most important requirement. Knowing about these algorithms or having tested them is not sufficient — the candidate must have personally performed the tuning.
- Audio DSP fundamentals. Must understand what equalization, dynamic range compression, limiting, and speaker protection do, how they function, how they are used, and what the trade-offs are.
- Ability to apply and tune existing algorithms on an audio system (an audio systems engineer profile). Writing algorithms from scratch is not required.
NICE TO HAVE SKILLS:
- Direct AR/VR glasses or other head-worn audio device experience.
- Transducer-level characterization and speaker integration experience (T/S parameters, Klippel, impedance, excursion).
- Exposure to embedded audio middleware or firmware-level audio bring-up (Audio Weaver, Qualcomm QACT, ADSP integration).
Position Summary:
We are looking for a contingent Audio Render Tuning Engineer to support the research AR glasses audio program. This role focuses on render-path DSP tuning of the speaker system using an internally developed embedded audio processing framework and tuning tools. The successful candidate will be hands-on in the lab, working closely with the Research Audio team to deliver a tuned, shipping-quality speaker experience. This is an opportunity to own the audio tuning of a next-generation research AR glasses device end to end. The contractor will work inside the Research organization on Aria 2+, a data-collection glasses platform used by researchers, and will have a direct, visible impact on how the device sounds. The role offers a rare combination of deep hands-on lab work — anechoic chamber measurement, electroacoustic characterization, subjective listening evaluation — with exposure to an internally developed embedded audio DSP framework and tuning toolchain, supported by the internal tooling teams that build it. The contractor will collaborate closely with hardware, firmware, algorithms, mechanical, optics, and vendor partners, giving broad visibility across a full product development cycle from early samples through multiple hardware build stages. Because the work is research-driven prototyping with the intent of feeding future products, the contractor gets to shape technology at the earliest stage.
SURROUNDING TEAM & KEY PROJECTS:
This is an audio hardware team within the Research organization. The team builds prototypes and proof-of-concept hardware to support research work — future ideation and devices that may or may not ultimately appear on the product roadmap, though the intent is that the work eventually feeds into future products. This particular project is well defined: it is the next iteration of Aria Gen 2, a data-collection glasses device that provides to researchers. The CWAM’s team designs the hardware, working within a larger cross-functional group that includes mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, software engineers, and optics engineers. The team owns the audio components specifically — speakers, microphones, and the software and algorithms that process audio data for device features and data collection. The team designs the speaker and works with an external vendor on its implementation, then tests it. This contractor's role is to tune that system: applying software algorithms to optimize sound quality and measuring results against performance indicators.
TYPICAL DAY-TO-DAY IN THE ROLE:
- Measure the glasses in anechoic chamber or lab environment to collect raw performance data.
- Work with the cross-functional team to define or receive performance targets.
- Develop or tune existing software algorithms to adjust the audio output of the speakers, then re-measure and validate against those targets.
- Split time between hands-on lab work and development work at the desk.
- Set up and conduct subjective demos and listening tests with managers and leaders across the audio team and cross-functional teams.
- Work with suppliers on troubleshooting — understanding trade-offs, diagnosing why performance falls short of expectations, and finding ways to extract additional performance.
- Interface regularly with audio software engineers, mechanical engineers, audio hardware engineers, and vendor partners.
Responsibilities:
- Render DSP Tuning: Perform speaker render-path tuning for research AR glasses using the company's internally developed embedded audio DSP framework and associated MATLAB-based tuning tools
- Tuning Components: Design and apply equalization filters, tune dynamic range compression and limiter parameters to optimize loudness, dynamics, sound quality, and distortion across use cases (media, voice, speech) while preserving speaker integrity
- Speaker Characterization & Baseline Measurement: Measure devices to establish baseline performance, collect frequency response, distortion (THD), and impedance data in anechoic or controlled acoustic environments
- Tuning Profile Management: Generate, compile, and validate tuning profiles via internal tuning toolchain for deployment to device firmware
- Collaboration with Cross-Functional Teams: Work with hardware, firmware, algorithms, and research teams to align tuning with system-level requirements
- Documentation: Maintain tuning documentation, test reports, and configuration records for each tuning iteration and release candidate
- Tool Onboarding: Ramp up on internal audio DSP ecosystem including graphical pipeline editors, render tuning tools, and device control utilities with support from internal tooling teams
QUALIFICATIONS
- Prior experience performing audio systems render tuning for consumer electronics products (AR/VR glasses, hearables, headphones, wearables, telecom devices, smart speakers)
- Understanding of render DSP tuning approaches (EQ, DRC, limiting, speaker protection) and hands-on experience performing tuning in a lab environment
- Experience with electroacoustic measurement tools (e.g. Audio Precision (APx series), Listen SoundCheck, HEAD acoustics ACQUA) and measurement transducers
- Experience with MATLAB for audio signal processing, filter design, and tuning tool workflows
- Strong attention to detail and systematic approach to parameter optimization and documentation
- Ability to work independently on tuning tasks while collaborating with a broader audio engineering team
- Understanding of speaker protection algorithms (excursion limiting, thermal protection, brownout protection)
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Acoustics Engineering, or a related technical discipline
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience with speaker integration and transducer-level characterization (T/S parameters, Klippel, impedance, excursion)
- Exposure to DSP frameworks or audio middleware (AudioWeaver, Qualcomm QACT, or similar embedded audio toolchains)
- Experience with volume table tuning and perceptual loudness optimization
- Exposure to firmware-level audio bring-up or ADSP integration workflows
- Experience with capture-path audio tuning including any of beamforming and spatial filtering, noise suppression, wind noise rejection, wake-word/keyword detection and speech recognition testing, capture-path gain staging and mic array calibration
TARGET INDUSTRIES (STACK-RANKED):
- AR/VR glasses — top preference
- Hearables and headphones (earbuds, over-ear headphones)
- Wearables (watches or other worn devices with audio features)
- Telecom devices (mobile phones)
- Smart speakers (Alexa, Google Home, and similar)
Experience:
- 10+ years of overall experience
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Acoustics Engineering, or a related technical discipline
Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.
BENEFITS SUMMARY:
Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate or annual salary only, unless otherwise stated. In addition to base compensation, full-time roles are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Commuter and 401K benefits with company matching.
FAIR CHANCE POLICY:
Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.
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Which companies sponsor visas for electrical controls engineers in Washington?
Boeing is one of the most active sponsors for electrical controls engineers in Washington, particularly at its Everett and Renton facilities. Other notable employers include Amazon Robotics, PACCAR, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, and companies in Washington's growing semiconductor and clean energy sectors. Sponsorship activity varies by facility and hiring cycle, so confirming open sponsored roles directly with each employer is important.
Which visa types are most common for electrical controls engineer roles in Washington?
The H-1B visa is the most common visa for electrical controls engineers in Washington, as the role typically qualifies as a specialty occupation requiring at least a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a closely related field. Canadian and Mexican nationals may qualify for the TN visa under the NAFTA/USMCA engineer category. Experienced candidates with exceptional recognition may explore the O-1A, though it requires substantial documentation of distinction.
Which cities in Washington have the most electrical controls engineer sponsorship jobs?
The Seattle metro area, including Everett, Renton, and Bellevue, has the highest concentration of electrical controls engineer sponsorship roles, driven largely by Boeing's aerospace operations and Amazon's robotics and fulfillment infrastructure. Tacoma has a meaningful presence tied to port logistics and industrial manufacturing. Eastern Washington cities like Richland and Kennewick also see demand from energy and defense-related employers in the Hanford area.
How to find electrical controls engineer visa sponsorship jobs in Washington?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically for roles offering visa sponsorship, making it straightforward to search for electrical controls engineer positions in Washington without sorting through employers who won't sponsor. You can filter by state and role to see active openings from Washington-based manufacturers, aerospace companies, and automation firms. Checking Migrate Mate regularly is practical given how quickly sponsored engineering roles can open and close.
Are there state-specific factors that affect electrical controls engineer sponsorship in Washington?
Washington has no state income tax, which affects how prevailing wage calculations translate into take-home pay compared to other states, though employers must still meet Department of Labor wage requirements for the relevant metropolitan area. The state's strong aerospace, energy, and advanced manufacturing industries create sustained demand for controls engineers. Washington also hosts several engineering programs at the University of Washington and Washington State University that feed regional employer pipelines, which can influence hiring preferences.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored electrical controls engineer jobs in Washington?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.