MistyWest is an engineering design consultancy working across hardware, manufacturing, and technology consulting. Its team researches, designs, and prototypes technically complex connected devices, bringing together physics, engineering, and manufacturing expertise to develop full-stack hardware. The work includes optics, embedded vision, low-power electronics, and wireless connectivity, with projects that can support progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals. MistyWest’s hiring context centers on engineering and product development for intelligent devices.
Contract Acoustic Engineer
Advise MistyWest teams and clients on microphone integration, acoustic design, and signal processing for hardware products. Support feasibility reviews, proposals, and project delivery.
Apraksts
- Help clients assess what is technically feasible when designing products that capture sound in noisy, real-world settings.
- Support MistyWest’s multidisciplinary engineers in delivering strong acoustic signal capture performance.
- Represent MistyWest’s acoustic expertise in business development, joining client calls to understand needs and establish technical credibility.
- Assess feasibility quickly and identify acoustic risks.
- Develop technical approaches for proposals and pitches, covering microphone integration, acoustic paths, array configurations, and signal processing.
- Help scope and estimate work by defining project phases, unknowns, effort, and testing requirements.
- Prepare concept sketches, technical narratives, references, prior art, and clear written material for pitches.
- Carry out early feasibility studies, literature reviews, bench recordings, and proof-of-concept analyses.
- Respond to client and internal technical questions during sales processes and help define initial project phases.
- Advise the multidisciplinary engineering team on acoustic design during project delivery.
- Lead acoustic design as a design engineer when needed.
Prasības
- At least five years designing acoustic systems for hardware products, including one product that shipped or reached a late-stage prototype.
- Broad experience with microphone integration, acoustic path design including sealed and waterproof enclosures, microphone arrays, and acoustic signal processing.
- Ability to assess feasibility quickly and provide a confident, well-reasoned view without a full engineering program.
- Experience scoping acoustic work and estimating effort, risks, and testing needs.
- Strong communication skills, including explaining complex acoustic concepts clearly to non-specialist clients and sales teams.
- Comfort with client-facing work such as discovery calls, technical deep dives, and pitch meetings.
- Availability for flexible, as-needed contract work, often on short notice.
- Consulting, presales, or technical advisory experience at an engineering services firm.
- A portfolio of shipped products or published work to reference when building client confidence.
- Familiarity with sound-based sensing applications such as flow sensing, acoustic event detection, or in-vehicle audio.
- Based in or near Vancouver for occasional in-person client meetings.
Priekšrocības
- Flexible arrangement with rates, hours, and work location open to negotiation.
- MistyWest can provide equipment and software support as needed.
- Opportunity to explore whether MistyWest could be a suitable long-term employer for your needs and career direction.
- Access to a local and global community of engineers and product design enthusiasts, with events, projects, potential work, and personal development opportunities.