Acoustic Engineer
Company: Gentex Corporation
Location: Manchester
Posted on: January 25, 2023
Job Description:
Description:
GENTEX AT A GLANCE:At Gentex Corporation, we've created an
environment where great ideas and great people can thrive.
Leveraging a history that spans over 125 years, Gentex is a global
leader in personal protection and situational awareness solutions
for defense forces, emergency responders, and industrial personnel
operating in high performance environments. Join our multinational
team of exceptional and dedicated employees around the world and
work on challenging and rewarding projects, grow your skills, and
advance your career all while making a positive difference in the
lives of our customers. Together, you and Gentex can build a career
that's uniquely yours.MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- B.S. Engineering or Physics required
- 5+ years of experience in Acoustic Engineering discipline
- Experience with sound and vibration measurements and analysis
techniques
- A fundamental understanding of microphone and speaker
design
- An understanding of speech intelligibility and
psychoacoustics
- Strong understanding of theoretical acoustics fundamentals
- Strong root cause analysis skills in acoustic/electro-acoustic
systemsPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master's degree in Acoustics with Acoustic design
experience
- Experience in the Aerospace and Military industry
- Excellent technical presentation skills, interpersonal
abilities, and multi-tasking skills while maintaining
objectivity
- An understanding of passive and active hearing protection
devices
- Experience designing size constrained acoustic and
electro-acoustic products for consumer and military customers
- Ability to work with and test systems which include mixed
analog/digital signals, digital signal processors, RF, and power
management electronics
- Experience or familiarity testing to ASA/ANSI standards 3.2,
12.6, and 12.42 ABOUT THE JOB!The Acoustic Engineer will primarily
be responsible for Research and Development of electro-acoustic
products in the hearing protection and audio telephony domain. Work
will include modeling, design, experimentation, measurement, and
analysis to support new product design efforts. The candidate will
help create innovative new technologies and apply them to the next
generation products. The right person will have solid engineering
fundamentals, intellectual curiosity, and a strong desire to learn.
Experience in acoustics, test design and setup, and personnel
protective equipment is highly desired. A self-starter with good
root cause analysis in acoustic systems with ability to make sound
decisions and guide projects through challenging acoustic
engineering problems is the right person to join our product
development team. Gentex offers a robust benefit package-
including, but not limited to, medical coverages, 401k, paid time
off and excellent work schedules including a 9/80 work
week.KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Must have the demonstrated ability to work both independently
and as a project team member, to generate unique solutions to
engineering design problems.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to present
and discuss complex technical issues with both experts and
non-experts.
- Practical experience with acoustical measurements, test
fixtures, and materials.
- Proficient with measurement data reduction and statistical
analysis.
- Understanding of active noise reduction technology is
desired.
- Familiarity with MATLAB, Labview, lumped parameter analysis, or
finite element tools for acoustical modeling.
- Understanding of electroacoustic transducers, accelerometers,
and other sensors is desired.
- Familiarity of acoustic attenuation principles for hearing
protection devices is desired.
- Experience in research, front-end product conceptualizing, and
new product development environment is desired.RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Work on a multidisciplinary team to design products to meet key
performance attributes
- Evaluate design options through comprehensive computer modeling
and verify through testing and analysis
- Select, specify, and evaluate transducers as necessary to
support system requirements
- Working with the project team, support groups, and outside
resources, you will analyze and recommend design options for
manufacturability, reliability, durability, performance, and
cost.
- You will collaborate with team members to generate and continue
to improve best practices guidelines related to acoustic
engineering work performed within the group
- You will be part of a team responsible for designing and
bringing products into production, and working to establish
appropriate test parameters
- Test, debug and troubleshoot, and root cause issues throughout
the product development phase
- Review of technologies, numerical modeling, design and
fabrication of electronic and mechanical prototypes.
- Design and perform experiments providing clear and organized
reports
- Prepares designs and testing results, and proposes ideas for
new and improved products and processes
- Researches, analyzes, and executes acoustic transducer product
development, performance, and failure analysis
- Schedule flexibility to support critical deadlines may be
required.TO APPLY:Visit: LOCATION:Gentex's Manchester facility is
located in southern New Hampshire. Manchester is the largest
convention, sports, entertainment, and arts & cultural destination
in New Hampshire. There is so much to do, see and experience in
Manchester including major concerts and ECHL Hockey, AA minor
league baseball, live performances at the historic Palace Theatre
or exhibits at our renowned museums. Located in the heart of New
England, Manchester is also conveniently located within an hour's
drive of Boston, an hour from the Atlantic Ocean and less than two
hours from New Hampshire's scenic White Mountains, Lake
Winnipesaukee and the many other well-known vacation destinations
in Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts.At Gentex, we don't just accept
difference-we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for
the benefit of our employees, our products and our community.
Gentex Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Protected
Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities. All qualified applicants
will receive consideration for employment without regard to their
protected veteran status or on the basis of disability. Gentex is
an E-Verify Participant. Pre-employment drug/alcohol/background
screening is required. If you have a disability and would like to
request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with
Gentex, please call our Human Resources department at (570)
282-3550.
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