Acoustic Engineer

MistyWest | Vancouver, BC | Contractor

About the role

MistyWest is looking for a contract acoustic engineer to support several early-stage hardware programs where sound is central to the product. You’ll advise our engineering team and client partners on microphone integration, acoustic path design, and acoustic signal processing. The work spans early feasibility studies through to enclosure design.

What you’ll work on

• 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. 

What you'll own 

• 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: what can be achieved acoustically, what can’t, and where the main risks are (e.g., sensing through a sealed enclosure, detecting target sounds in noisy environments).
• Help shape the technical approach for proposals and pitches, including mic integration strategy, acoustic path concepts, array configurations and signal processing approach.
• Support scoping and estimation by breaking acoustic work into phases, flagging unknowns and suggesting effort and test needs, so sales can make confi