NEW JOB OPENING
SENIOR HEARING SCIENCE RESEARCH SCIENTIST - PSYCHOACOUSTICS & HEARING-AID SIGNAL PROCESSING
IN Redmond, WA, USA!

Required education:

• PhD in Hearing Science, Audiology, Auditory Neuroscience, Acoustics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical research experience



Required experience:

• 8+ years in hearing science/psychoacoustics and hearing-assistive signal processing, including independent research leadership (IC5 equivalent). PhD research experience counts toward this.



Must Have Skills:

• Hearing science & psychoacoustics domain expertise

• Hands-on hearing-aid / hearing-assistive signal processing and fitting approaches

• Designing, running, and analyzing human-subject listening studies



Nice-to-have Skills

• Speech-in-noise measurement and speech intelligibility enhancement

• Wearable / head-worn audio device experience; microphone arrays, beamforming, or spatial audio

• Publication track record in hearing science, audiology, or audio signal processing; prototyping in MATLAB/Python



Job overview:

• In this role you will drive hearing-science research end to end: setting direction for your own studies, executing established research programs, and evaluating signal-processing approaches against human performance.

• This is a hands-on role. You will design and run listening studies, prototype and assess algorithms, and translate findings into direction for future hearing technologies.



Responsibilities

• Trimmers — direct their own studies on this workstream, setting study direction to keep the program advancing toward NTI

• SIN on glasses — carry on already-planned studies, continuing execution rather than redefining scope

• Design and run listening/human-subject studies: protocols, stimulus design, psychoacoustic measurement

• Prototype, tune, and evaluate hearing-assistive signal-processing algorithms and fitting approaches

• Analyze data and communicate findings to research, engineering, and product partners; document methods for continuity

• Define and drive research direction for hearing-science programs, independently scoping and executing studies that advance hearing-assistive technology

• Execute established research plans through design, data collection, analysis, and reporting

• Design and run listening experiments and human-subject studies, including participant protocols, stimulus design, and psychoacoustic measurement

• Prototype, tune, and evaluate hearing-assistive signal-processing algorithms and fitting approaches

• Analyze experimental data and communicate findings clearly to research, engineering, and product partners

• Collaborate onsite with audio researchers, hardware engineers, and software engineers to translate scientific results into system requirements

• Document methods and results to ensure continuity and knowledge transfer across the team



Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated domain expertise in hearing science and psychoacoustics

• Hands-on experience with hearing-aid or hearing-assistive signal processing (e.g., amplification, compression,

• noise reduction, directionality, feedback management) and fitting approaches

• Experience designing, executing, and analyzing human-subject listening studies

• Technical proficiency sufficient to independently prototype algorithms and experimental tooling (e.g., MATLAB, Python)

• Proven experience driving research direction independently with minimal supervision



Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with speech-in-noise measurement and speech intelligibility enhancement

• Experience with wearable or head-worn audio devices

• Experience with microphone arrays, beamforming, or spatial audio processing

• Track record of publications in hearing science, audiology, or audio signal processing venues

• Experience partnering with cross-functional hardware and software teams in a product research environment

• **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**

• **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.**