XR Audio Systems Architect

Google; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Job summary

Google’s XR audio team seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead acoustics, hardware co-design, and audio tuning across smart glasses and XR wearables. You will own end-to-end audio quality for playback and capture, across all modes and form factors.

You will bridge physical acoustics, embedded DSP software, and ML-driven speech enhancement, defining roadmaps and tuning methodologies, and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in EE, Acoustics, Mechanical Eng (Acoustics), CS, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of industry experience in audio systems engineering, acoustics, physical acoustic design, audio system tuning, or DSP for consumer electronics or wearables.
• Experience in acoustic tuning for playback and capture pipelines (EQ, MBDRC, AEC, beamforming).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance audio software solutions.
• Lead tuning of playback and capture pipelines (EQ, MBDRC, AEC, beamforming).
• Own long-term technical roadmap for XR audio systems and methodologies.
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams to meet audio performance goals.

Skills

Audio systems design

Digital signal processing

Acoustics

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Acoustics, Mechanical Engineering (Acoustics focus), Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Acoustics, Electrical Engineering, Audio Signal Processing, or Psychoacoustics

Tools

MBDRC

AEC

Beamforming

Job description

Google’s XR audio team seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead acoustics, hardware co-design, and audio tuning across smart glasses and XR wearables. You will own end-to-end audio quality for playback and capture, across all modes and form factors.

You will bridge physical acoustics, embedded DSP software, and ML-driven speech enhancement, defining roadmaps and tuning methodologies, and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams in a fast-paced environment.