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Transducer Acoustics Engineer
We are seeking candidates with physics/EE background focused on electromechanical transduction devices, specifically, design, test, simulation and construction of piezoelectric transducer systems.

Desired Skills and Experience:

Applicant must have demonstrated experience in some or all of the following core responsibilities:

Electromechanical Transducer Design:

  • Fundamentals of electromechanical device design, sensors and/or actuators. Piezoelectric devices a plus

  • Phased arrays, 2D phased array experience a plus

  • Beamforming methods, implementation and optimization

  • Experience of integration of design into mass produced product

  • Multi-industry experience desirable

  • Acoustics or energy harvesting knowledge desirable

Transducer/Acoustic Numerical Simulation

  • Fundamentals of calculations for standard device metrics and beam calculation

Experience in FE codes

  • ANSYS, Simulia, COMSOL, PZFlex and other specialist codes such as Field II and general codes such as MATLAB and Octave, CAD such as SolidWorks or Pro-E.

Small Scale or MEMS Device Manufacture

  • Hands on experience in construction of transduction devices, millimeter or smaller scale

  • Bonding, alignment, wiring

  • Familiar with basic clean rooms, cleaners, ovens, wire/blade saws

Test Experience

  • Experience in standard ultrasound testing equipment:

  • Impedance analyzers, vibrometers, hydrophones etc.

  • Analysis and presentation of large quantities of test data, and validation of simulation results.

Materials knowledge of fundamentals of constituent components

  • Piezoelectric knowledge a plus

Programming

  • Knowledge of basic scripting languages such as Python, LabView

  • Experience in numerical coding of physical phenomena a plus

Educational Background

  • 7-10+ years experience or equivalent

  • Engineering or Physics degree required

ABOUT YOU

  • Self-starter, ability to work in a cross disciplinary team in a rapidly growing company.

  • This is an ideal position for an experienced and talented engineer looking for the opportunity to make a major contribution to a ground-breaking technology product.  May be individual contributor growing to manager role or above.