Sensing Research Scientist

At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.

Audio technology research at Sonos sits at the intersection of audio signal processing, machine learning, acoustics, and audio perception. With the launch of the Sonos Ace, the company has taken a big first leap into the headphones space.

The Hearables Innovation Team at Sonos are looking for a Research Scientist in Sensing to join us in inventing the personal listening experiences of the future.

What you’ll do

Advanced technologies play a central role in the future of the Sonos hearables experience, covering a range of research areas including spatial audio, adaptive noise cancellation, telephony, wearable computing, and sensing.

As a Research Scientist in Sensing for Hearables, you will be responsible for researching, developing, and evaluating sensor technologies, signal processing and machine learning methods, and interaction concepts. This will include identifying the emerging opportunities presented by new methods and developments in the field and taking ideas from early concepts to scalable, productisable solutions.

Skills You'll Need

Basic Qualifications

• Ability to formalize, analyze and solve complex problems.

• Demonstrable expertise and research experience in one or more of the following areas:

  • Sensor processing, sensor fusion

  • Brain-computer interaction

  • Mobile and wearable computing

  • Machine learning

  • Spatial computing

  • Augmented hearing and assistive technologies

• Ph.D. in audio, covering one of the above areas or a related topic.

• Knowledge of fundamental DSP and ML techniques for sensing and sensor fusion (e.g. state estimation, data pre-processing and modeling).

• Comfortable working with and/or designing prototype hardware systems

• Comfortable using Python or Matlab, and version control tools.

• Ability to clearly communicate, present, and disseminate research findings to both specialist and general audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Musical and/or critical listening background (playing, producing, engineering).

• Track record of published papers in relevant peer-reviewed journals or conferences (e.g. ICML, SENSORS, UIST, CHI, CVPR, Ubicomp, MobiCom, ICASSP, Interspeech).

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