Senior Research Acoustic Engineer

Location: Northridge, California, USA; hybrid arrangement with on-site work required. Willingness to travel up to 10% domestically and internationally.

Salary: $97,500–$143,000 per year, with possible additional compensation such as bonuses or commission.

Company

hirify.global develops connected automotive, lifestyle, audio, and digital transformation technologies across brands including JBL, hirify.global Kardon, AKG, Mark Levinson, and Revel.

What you will do

• Advance acoustic research by framing technical questions and turning promising ideas into validated prototypes.
• Model, build, test, and tune acoustic systems and signal processing algorithms across devices and listening environments.
• Create repeatable simulation, measurement, critical listening, and evaluation methods.
• Combine acoustics, audio machine learning, perceptual analysis, physical evidence, and data-driven methods.
• Develop reference implementations and support technology transfer into product teams.
• Apply AI-assisted tools to accelerate experimentation, coding, testing, analysis, and documentation while mentoring colleagues and sharing reusable methods.

Requirements

• Degree in acoustics, electrical or mechanical engineering, physics, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically at least five years of experience in acoustic research or engineering.
• Strong knowledge of acoustics, signal processing, acoustic systems design, measurement, psychoacoustics, and critical listening.
• Experience taking research from initial question through modeling, prototyping, reproducible evaluation, and product integration or a product-ready demonstration.
• Practical fluency with Python, MATLAB, or equivalent tools for acoustic modeling, measurement, analysis, and automation.
• Ability and willingness to work on site at the Northridge, California office, complete a background investigation and drug screen, and travel up to 10%.

Nice to have

• Experience with headphones, loudspeakers, microphones, transducers, active noise control, beamforming, or adaptive signal processing.
• Experience designing real-time audio systems and evaluating hardware, software, latency, compute, and power tradeoffs.
• Knowledge of audio machine learning methods and related evaluation data pipelines.
• Experience with physical prototyping, 3D CAD, rapid fabrication, or acoustic test fixtures.
• Patents, publications, standards work, or shipped audio technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Employee discounts on hirify.global products.
• Training opportunities through hirify.global University and tuition reimbursement.
• Wellness benefits and professional development opportunities.
• Possible paid vacation, holidays, sick leave, volunteer leave, bonding and caregiver leave.
• Possible medical, dental, vision, fertility, adoption, retirement matching, disability, life insurance, HSA, and FSA benefits.
• Inclusive and diverse work environment with employee recognition through the Be Brilliant program.