Job Description
OEM partner scouting
- Act as the primary technical liaison between our company and OEM/ODM partners for PA loudspeaker projects.
- Evaluate and qualify new suppliers and manufacturing partners, ensuring adherence to company standards and industry regulations.
- Conduct design reviews, risk assessments, and root cause analyses for product issues.
- Coordinate and support product testing, certification, and compliance activities (e.g., CE, UL, EN54).
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product Management, Quality, Procurement, etc.) to ensure project alignment and timely delivery.
Product specification
- Define technical requirements
- Intelligent design to minimize product cost and monitor cost throughout projects.
- Define product requirements to comply with global standards
- Model and simulate enclosures, waveguides, driver chassis, suspension systems and other components using SolidWorks, MATLAB, COMSOL and other simulation software
Production
- Design for manufacturing optimization with factories and vendors
- Support sample and pre-production builds remotely and on-site
- Monitor design, test and production process at and OEM partners
Test, Debug, Validation
- Create test and design verification plan for functional and reliability testing including testing of speaker components and complete systems
- Verify complete products for conformance to design specifications, operational and safety standards such as IEC 62638, EN54, UL1480. UL1480A
- Execute / supervise test plan
- Evaluate loudspeaker system and speaker component performance and reliability, failure modes and root cause failure analysis
- Perform sample evaluations
- Perform defect analysis and provide technical solutions to resolve them
Product release
- Responsible to deliver on time, on cost, on quality
- Work closely with notified bodies to obtain product certifications eg. EN54, UL, CE, …
- Manage / create technical documentation
- Support projects during the full life cycle, work with quality and service departments to solve ongoing quality issues should they arise
- Work in a team environment with project, product, quality and purchase managers
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Acoustics, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or Physics or equivalent
- Proven experience in loudspeaker design, audio systems engineering, or a similar role—preferably with exposure to OEM/ODM collaboration.
- Strong understanding of acoustics, transducer technology, and PA system requirements.
- Minimum of five (5) years' experience designing, modeling, simulating, and testing electro-acoustics systems and loudspeakers
- Knowledge of loudspeaker components and systems latest technology and current state of the art
- Experience with technical computation: MATLAB, Mathcad or similar
- Experience with simulation and measurement tools (e.g., Klippel, EASE, COMSOL).
- Experience with 3D CAD – SolidWorks is preferred
- Experience with multi-physics FEA software for acoustics systems is an advantage COMSOL is preferred
- Experience working with interdisciplinary teams including project management, quality, purchasing and logistics
- Experience working with 3rd party manufacturing companies in global location such as Mexico, China and Europe
- Experience in loudspeaker production.
- Experience designing and testing according to global standards such as IEC 62638, EN54, UL1480. UL1480A
- Experience working with UL and CE certifying bodies to obtain certifications
- Creative and entrepreneurial mindset to get things done
- Experience with low-cost design and cost reduction actions
- Willingness to travel
- Good in English & Chinees, verbal & written