Summary
What you’ll impact
The Senior Systems and Acoustic Engineer will serve as the senior technical authority for product architecture, acoustic performance, and system integration of premium aviation headset products. Reporting to the EVP of Product Innovation & Quality, the role leads design, analysis, validation, and research of audio systems while providing technical leadership across cross‑functional teams.
Responsibilities
What you'll do
- Define and maintain system architectures, technical requirements, and performance budgets for current and future Lightspeed product platforms.
- Lead the design, analysis, optimization, and validation of acoustic systems, audio signal paths, transducers, microphones, and communication technologies to deliver industry-leading user experiences.
- Conduct system-level trade studies and technical feasibility assessments to evaluate technologies, architectures, components, and design approaches that support product and business objectives.
- Research, prototype, and mature new technologies, concepts, and algorithms that enable future products, competitive differentiation, and intellectual property development.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to internal and external engineering teams throughout product development, ensuring alignment between system requirements, architecture decisions, implementation, and verification activities.
- Characterize and analyze complete product performance through modeling, simulation, laboratory testing, and field evaluation while identifying technical risks and recommending mitigation strategies.
Requirements
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Acoustic Engineering, Physics, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
- Minimum 7 years of relevant product development experience.
- Demonstrated experience designing and analyzing complete audio systems.
- Strong systems engineering background.
- Experience defining product architectures from concept through production.
- Exceptional analytical and systems-thinking abilities.
- Deep understanding of end-to-end audio systems.
- Strong communication and technical leadership skills.
- Ability to balance technical performance, risk, cost, manufacturability, and schedule.
- Strong innovation mindset and track record of solving difficult technical problems.
- Ability to influence without direct authority.
- Results-driven and highly collaborative.
- Ability to lift 10 lbs. frequently and up to 50 lbs. periodically.
- Stand or sit for long periods.
- Perform tasks (that may be repetitive) that require reaching, pushing, pulling, kneeling, walking, stooping and/or bending.
- Work in an environment that generates OSHA permissible machine noise levels.
- Use tools that require fine hand skills.
- Visually, observe and differentiate small moving parts.
- Must be able and willing to travel domestically and internationally by air, rail, and automobile as required up to 10%.
- U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship: Employer will not sponsor visas for position.