Senior Acoustics Engineer

Our mission to positively impact people's lives every day in every home around the world allows our employees to be thinkers and tinkerers, designers and doers, creators and number crunchers, makers of things they love. As we continue to grow, we are excited to add an enthusiastic, driven Senior Acoustics Engineer to join the R&D group within SharkNinja Engineering. This team member will participate in supporting product teams in evaluating and analyzing noise and vibration issues in new and innovating products, as well as designing and offering solutions for creating 5-star, quality sounding products. We’re seeking a strong mechanical/acoustic engineer with a passion for sound quality and an eagerness to make meaningful impacts in people’s lives. 

Here are some of the EXCITING things you’ll get to do: 

• Assist in acoustic and vibrational testing of a wide variety of consumer products 
• Analyze acoustic and vibration frequency spectra to identify and localize noise sources and identify source characteristics 
• Perform psychoacoustic analysis of our products, calculate sound quality metrics, and work within our multi-disciplinary product development teams to create meaningful performance indicators that relate to consumer perception of sound 
• Integrate with other engineering and product development teams to help review designs and offer insights into noise performance 
• Design, implement, build prototypes, and test solutions to various noise and vibration issues – follow your designs and recommendations through to their implementation 
• Work within the R&D team to lead the research of novel noise reduction and control techniques 
• Report out findings to product development and other engineering teams 
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) within SharkNinja for the areas of acoustics and vibration  

ATTRIBUTES & SKILLS: 

• Proficiency setting up and conducting vibroacoustic testing. Including, but not limited to sound pressure/power testing, vibration measurements, modal analysis, order tracking, and directivity analysis 
• Proven experience bringing at least 1 noise or vibration control technology from inception to mass production 
• Strong knowledge of mechanical engineering, physical acoustics, psychoacoustic, and noise control principles (sound pressure/power/intensity, wave propagation, acoustic filters, absorption, transmission loss, resonance, human response to noise, etc.) 
• Experience developing test plans and procedures for new and innovative products to evaluate their acoustic performance 
• Experience managing or working in anechoic chambers with high precision vibroacoustic test equipment (microphones, accelerometers, etc.) 
• Strong fundamentals of basic vibrating systems and how modifications of different parameters affect the resulting response 
• Knowledge of conventional noise reduction/control solutions and measurement techniques 
• Basics of digital signal processing to the data you are collecting, how to process it, and tradeoffs surrounding time and frequency 
• Proven 3D CAD modelling skills (CREO, SolidWorks, etc.) 
• Fluent in MATLAB 

Minimum Qualifications 

• BS or MS (preferred) in Mechanical Engineering, Acoustics, or similar 
• 5+ years in a Noise Control or NVH setting, with a preference for experience in the consumer appliance industry 
• 5+ years operating vibroacoustic data acquisition software (LMS/Simcenter Testlab preferred, but ArtemiS SUITE, B&K PULSE, or similar is acceptable) 
• Critical listener with great hearing over the audible frequency range 
• Act as a creative and quick thinker, being able to offer meaningful ideas and handle multiple workstreams simultaneously 
• Passionate about the intersection between sound and engineering and improving the quality of people’s lives through quality sounding, 5-star products. 

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