About the role

Contract Acoustic Engineer advising MistyWest hardware teams and clients on microphone integration, acoustic paths, and signal processing. Supporting feasibility, proposals, and acoustic design delivery.

Responsibilities

Help clients understand what’s technically possible when developing products which capture acoustic signals in real-world, noisy environments.
Help MistyWest’s multi-disciplinary engineering team deliver products with excellent acoustic signal capture performance.
Act as MistyWest’s acoustic subject-matter expert during business development, joining client calls to understand the problem and show technical credibility.
Quickly judge technical feasibility and identify acoustic risks.
Shape technical approaches for proposals and pitches, including mic integration strategy, acoustic path concepts, array configurations and signal processing.
Support scoping and estimation by defining phases, unknowns, effort and testing needs.
Contribute concept sketches, technical narratives, references, prior art and plain-language write-ups to pitch materials.
Conduct early-stage feasibility studies, literature reviews, bench recordings and proof-of-concept analyses.
Answer client and internal technical questions during sales processes and frame initial project phases.
Advise the multidisciplinary engineering team on acoustic design during project delivery.
Drive acoustic design as a design engineer when needed.

5+ years designing acoustic systems for hardware products, with at least one product that shipped or reached late-stage prototype
Broad expertise across microphone integration and acoustic path design (including sealed and waterproof enclosures), microphone arrays and acoustic signal processing
Can assess feasibility quickly and give a confident, well-reasoned point of view without a full engineering program behind it
Experience scoping acoustic work and estimating effort, risk and test requirements
Strong communicator who explains complex acoustic concepts clearly to non-specialist clients and sales teams
Comfortable in client-facing settings such as discovery calls, technical deep-dives and pitch meetings
Available on a flexible, as-needed contract basis, often with short turnaround
Consulting, pre-sales or technical advisory experience at an engineering services firm
Portfolio of shipped products or published work they can reference to build client confidence
Familiarity with sound-based sensing applications (e.g., flow sensing, acoustic event detection, in-vehicle audio)
Based in or near Vancouver, for occasional in-person client meetings

Highly flexible: negotiate your own rates, hours and work location.
Hardware & Software Access: MistyWest can provide equipment and software support where needed
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