Speaker Systems Engineer
Sesame · San Francisco
CHECKED 3H AGO
Applied AIonsitesenior$175k–$280k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own the full speaker system for smart wearables with tiny acoustic volumes.
- Design acoustic paths that stay loud at the ear and quiet to others.
- Evaluate unconventional transducers and bring them to mass production.
What they offer
- 401(k) with 3.5% employer match
- 100% employer-paid health, vision and dental for you and dependents
- Unlimited PTO and sick time
- Medical FSA with employer match up to $1,650/year
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Competitive stock options
Ideal candidate
A hands-on acoustic owner who has shipped tiny speakers and obsesses over big sound from fractions of a cubic centimeter. You love building, measuring, and refining hardware with suppliers through to mass production.
Requirements
- Bachelor's in Electrical, Mechanical Engineering, Acoustics, Physics or similar
- 5+ years integrating speakers into consumer hardware with at least one shipped product owned end to end
- Strong grounding in electroacoustics, lumped-parameter modeling, Thiele/Small parameters and enclosure design
- Hands-on experience specifying and qualifying miniature speakers with suppliers
- Extensive experience with SoundCheck, Klippel, Audio Precision and distortion, max SPL and rub-and-buzz testing
- Track record using lumped-parameter and FEM simulation such as COMSOL validated against hardware
- Working knowledge of speaker tuning and protection including EQ, limiting, excursion and thermal protection
Lab profile
About Sesame
Designing lifelike computers and voice agents that see, hear, and collaborate naturally.
What they build
- Lifelike voice agents
- Voice-first computer hardware
Known for
- Lifelike voice interaction
- Hardware and software co-design
- Leaders from Oculus, Meta, Google, Apple