Senior Staff Software Engineer, Audio Systems, XR
Company: Nord Resume
Location: San Jose, CA
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-10-11
About this role
In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Acoustics, Mechanical Engineering (Acoustics focus), Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of industry experience in audio systems engineering, acoustics, physical acoustic design, audio system tuning, or digital signal processing for consumer electronics or wearable devices.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Acoustics, Electrical Engineering, Audio Signal Processing, or Psychoacoustics.
- Demonstrated experience in acoustic tuning of both playback (EQ, MBDRC, speaker protection, loudness optimization) and capture (AEC, beamforming, noise suppression) production pipelines.
- Proven track record of architecting, tuning, and shipping audio systems for high-volume commercial wearable products (e.g., smart glasses, AR/VR headsets, TWS earbuds, smart speakers, or hearables).
- Deep expertise in physical micro-acoustics: acoustic cavity design, porting, acoustic mesh impedance, transducer characterization, and lumped-element/FEA acoustic modeling.
About The Job
Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display l...