Audio Systems Engineering Manager, Audio Hardware Technology

We enjoy bringing music into people's lives! Our team focuses on developing world class audio product solutions and technologies for our Echo speakers and products, Fire TVs, and Alexa tablets, and we research and develop cutting edge technological solutions for hard-to-solve audio engineering problems. In this role, you will guide and mentor experienced audio systems engineers, and build up team capabilities and development processes.

Key job responsibilities
Manage experienced acoustic engineers in Sunnyvale CA and Bellevue WA. Manage resource allocation for projects. Provide experienced technical mentoring to engineers to solve hard technical problems. Manage lab facilities. Grow the team technically, and grow capabilities for predictive design (computer modeling) and design verification (measurements). Manage expenditures against budget. Manage R&D projects and efforts that will maintain our world-class standing in terms of audio product performance. Make sure that the products we deliver to customers correctly reproduce artists' intent. Work with our suppliers to understand and improve their capabilities to build our products.

A day in the life
Every day is of course different, but the stakeholders you work with remains a constant: product management leadership, leaders in related audio functions like audio SW, and leaders in adjacent engineering functions such as electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, reliability, power engineering, manufacturing, and our supply base. We have engineers and partners in both California and Washington, along with a supply base in China, and so there are opportunities for occasional travel.

About the team
Our team contains specialists in the following areas:
- Audio systems design
- Audio transducer design and engineering
- Audio electrical engineering
- Audio architectural specialists
- Audio mechanical engineering specialists
- Audio playback systems tuning

The team you'll be managing is focused on audio systems design, research, and development.