Principal Audio Scientist, Fauna

Job description

Fauna Robotics is building capable, safe, and delightful robots for everyday life, and voice is one of the most natural ways people will interact with them. Cloud speech and language models are good and getting better, but they can only work with the audio they receive, and a robot is a hard place to listen. Its microphones sit beside motors, fans, and moving joints. It speaks through its own loudspeaker while people talk over it. It moves, turns, and shares a room with several people at once. We are hiring a Principal Audio Scientist to be Fauna's technical authority on how our robots hear.

You will design, prototype, and ship the hardest algorithms in the robot's audio system.

Job requirements

Experience influencing multiple stakeholders and leading cross functional teams across geographies and business units
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Acoustics, or a related field and 7+ years of relevant research experience after degree, or a Master's degree and 12+ years of equivalent experience
Deep, hands-on expertise in multi-microphone audio processing, such as beamforming, echo cancellation, and noise suppression
Track record of designing and shipping audio front-end algorithms on a physical device with its own acoustic challenges, such as a smart speaker, wearable, vehicle, or robot
Experience influencing hardware decisions on microphone array design and acoustic integration
Experience suppressing device-generated noise from motors, fans, or mechanical vibration
Experience with sound source localization or tracking moving talkers
Experience adapting wake word or voice activity detection to noisy, far-field conditions

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