$80-$90 per hour Redmond, WA Contract

• Duration:

  12 months contract

• Summary:

• Research Audio team is advancing the science of augmented hearing: technology that helps people hear better in the situations where hearing is hardest.

We are looking for a Research Scientist with deep hearing-science expertise to lead and execute research programs in hearing-assistive technology. In this role you will drive hearing-science research end to end: setting direction for your own studies, executing established research programs, and evaluating signal-processing approaches against human performance. This is a hands-on role. You will design and run listening studies, prototype and assess algorithms, and translate findings into direction for future hearing technologies.

• Job Responsibilities:

• + Direct their own studies on this workstream, setting study direction to keep the program advancing toward NTI + Carry on already-planned studies, continuing execution rather than redefining scope + Design and run listening/human-subject studies: protocols, stimulus design, psychoacoustic measurement + Prototype, tune, and evaluate hearing-assistive signal-processing algorithms and fitting approaches + Analyze data and communicate findings to research, engineering, and product partners; document methods for continuity •Must have skills•+ Hearing science & psychoacoustics domain expertise + Hands-on hearing-aid / hearing-assistive signal processing and fitting approaches + Designing, running, and analyzing human-subject listening studies (onsite, Redmond) + Light python knowledge •Nice to have•+ Speech-in-noise measurement and speech intelligibility enhancement + Wearable / head-worn audio device experience; microphone arrays, beamforming, or spatial audio + Publication track record in hearing science, audiology, or audio signal processing; prototyping in MATLAB/Python •

Education/Experience:

• + 8 years in hearing science / psychoacoustics and hearing-assistive signal processing, including independent research leadership (IC5 equivalent). PhD research experience counts toward this. + PhD in Hearing Science, Audiology, Auditory Neuroscience, Acoustics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent practical research experience.

• About US Tech Solutions:

• US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com.
• US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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• By applying, you acknowledge that AI-assisted tools may be used during hiring.
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