Senior Acoustics & Transducer Design Engineer

Exo; California (MO); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical + Dental + Vision

Life and AD&D

401(k)

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Exo is seeking an Acoustics Design Engineer to lead the acoustic and transducer design of its ultrasonic imaging products. You will evolve pMUT technology from concept through production, collaborating with Product Engineering, Imaging, Manufacturing, and Characterization to ensure robust, manufacturable designs.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in acoustics/transducer design, strong FE modeling experience, and a track record leading complex projects.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Acoustics or equivalent.
• Strong background in acoustic and/or piezoelectric transducer design.
• Extensive experience with finite element modeling of coupled multi-physics systems.
• 10+ years of relevant industry or research experience in acoustics, transducers, MEMS, or related fields.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical projects and influence cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, analysis, and optimization of Exo’s pMUT transducer architectures, spanning coupled electrical, mechanical, and acoustic domains across large arrays.
• Develop and maintain scalable modeling workflows to rapidly explore and optimize pMUT designs within an open design space, accounting for system requirements, architectural trade-offs, and manufacturing constraints.
• Partner with internal design, process, and manufacturing teams to define, refine, and align on design targets, tolerances, and constraints.
• Provide detailed modeling support for layout and DFM (design for manufacturing) activities, including prediction of performance variation due to process and material variability.
• Close the loop between design, process, and test by analyzing characterization data, comparing results to design targets, updating models and specifications, and driving design improvements.
• Model and analyze acoustic interactions with adjacent structures including lenses and matching layers, reflectors and absorbers, housings, silicon die, PCBs, and interconnects.
• Translate imaging and system-level requirements into pMUT specifications, making informed trade-offs when competing requirements cannot be met by a single design.
• Develop simplified and reduced-order models, where appropriate, to capture array- level and system-level physics while maintaining predictive accuracy.

Skills

Data analysis

Python scripting

Education

MS or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Acoustics

Tools

ANSYS

Multiphysics FEM

Job description

Exo is seeking an Acoustics Design Engineer to lead the acoustic and transducer design of its ultrasonic imaging products. You will evolve pMUT technology from concept through production, collaborating with Product Engineering, Imaging, Manufacturing, and Characterization to ensure robust, manufacturable designs.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in acoustics/transducer design, strong FE modeling experience, and a track record leading complex projects.