7 Sound Design jobs in the United States

The Department of Film and Media at Emory University in Atlanta, GA invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Film and Media Production with an emphasis in sound design. Appointment begins August 2026. The successful applicant will join a growing and dynamic undergraduate program in a Tier 1 research university. Atlanta has been ranked as the third largest center for the creation of feature films and television in the United States
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**Summary:**
As a centralized team, the Creative Audio Organization touches nearly every product Meta produces.We're now seeking an experienced Design Program Manager to join our Family of Apps team, who will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of audio across Meta's Family of Apps (Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, Threads and MetaAI). You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product design, branding and engineering, to design innovative audio experiences that span multiple devices, such as smartphones, smart glasses, VR headsets, and AR/MR experiences. As part of our team, you will work alongside a team of Interaction Sound Designers who are responsible for helping build brand recognition, and enhance the overall brand experiences across all of our products. In this role, you will have a unique opportunity to collaborate with product and creative teams across Meta to drive sonic innovation and create meaningful experiences that meaningfully impact the norms and connect people in new ways.
**Required Skills:**
Creative Audio - Design Program Manager on Family of Apps Responsibilities:
1. Identify and drive large, program-level product initiatives forward that have multiple stakeholders, competing deadlines, multiple dependencies and many moving parts
2. Prioritize, assess tradeoffs, propose clear solutions and communicate strategically
3. Identify, define and manage multi-team strategic initiatives that drive efficiency and impact, often contributing best practices to the discipline
4. Advocate for design-driven solutions and apply design thinking to programs and operations
5. Own and facilitate meetings to drive progress against goals and objectives and establish clear next steps and owners, while resolving blocks that impede progress
6. Proactively assess risk, raise flags and resolve issues before they become problems for larger teams
7. Sought out as the operations subject-matter expert to the product team and trusted leader across the company, collaborating and sharing in-depth knowledge with team members
8. Communicate persuasively to the right audience to get buy-in and feedback
9. Proactively problem solve and distribute information effectively
10. Define and measure impact of programs and initiatives both qualitatively and quantitatively, continually refining and iterating to ensure usage and adoption
11. Scale internal organization programs and initiatives when necessary and delegate effectively with clear expectations
12. Source and manage operational budgets, vendor relationships and contracts
**Minimum Qualifications:**
Minimum Qualifications:
13. 4+ years of experience in program or project management
14. Experience handling complexity and navigating ambiguity with teams on large scale 0 to 1 projects from concept to execution
15. Experience consistently working under your own initiative, seeking feedback and input where appropriate
16. Experience working directly with either sound designers, technical sound designers, and/or prototypers
17. Experience managing time-critical projects through to completion while balancing evolving priorities and a broad range of stakeholders
18. Experience managing vendors and contractors
19. Experience using data to identify problems and communicate solutions
20. Experience managing time-critical projects through to completion while balancing evolving priorities and a wide-range of stakeholders
**Preferred Qualifications:**
Preferred Qualifications:
21. 4+ years of experience in program or project management
22. Experience handling complexity and navigating ambiguity with teams on large scale 0 to 1 projects from concept to execution
23. Experience consistently working under your own initiative, seeking feedback and input where appropriate
24. Experience managing time-critical projects through to completion while balancing evolving priorities and a broad range of stakeholders
25. Experience managing vendors and contractors
26. Experience using data to identify problems and communicate solutions
27. Experience managing time-critical projects through to completion while balancing evolving priorities and a wide-range of stakeholders
**Public Compensation:**
$129,000/year to $185,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
**Industry:** Internet
**Equal Opportunity:**
Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.
Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at

Job Title: Audio Mechanical Design Engineer
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Audio Mechanical Design Engineer to join our labs in Sunnyvale. As a member of the Acoustic Render (Speaker) Team (ART), you will play a pivotal role in the architectural design and integration of audio transducers for our custom speaker modules. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to the development of state-of-the-art hardware devices that enhance social interactions in both Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) environments.
Responsibilities
+ Design and develop audio transducer integration for custom speaker modules.
+ Contribute to the architectural design of hardware devices in AR and VR.
+ Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product quality and functionality.
+ Utilize Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) principles.
+ Conduct statistical tolerance analysis, functional dimensioning, and geometric tolerancing.
+ Employ 3D/2D CAD for design and development processes.
Essential Skills
+ At least 4 years of relevant product design and development experience focusing on micro-speakers in high-volume consumer electronics.
+ Proficiency in mechanical design and SolidWorks.
+ Experience with small form factors such as headphones and smartwatches.
+ Proficiency in DFM, DFA, and statistical tolerance analysis techniques.
+ Strong knowledge of material properties including plastics, metals, adhesives, and glass.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
+ Experience with testing and analysis techniques such as Design of Experiments (DOE) and mold flow analysis.
+ Familiarity with high-volume manufacturing techniques such as stamping, machining, and injection molding.
Work Environment
The position is based onsite at a customer location in Sunnyvale, requiring presence five days per week. This role offers the chance to work on cutting-edge technology, including AR glasses, where audio serves as a new input form factor to control various functions.
Job Type & Location
This is a Permanent position based out of San Jose, California.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $ - $ /yr.
Paid Time off/Vacation and Paid Holidays- 401(k)- 401(k) matching- Life insurance- Flexible Spending Account (FSA): Healthcare and Dependent Care- Health Savings Account (HSA)- Paid Parental Leave- Paid Bereavement Leave- Employee Assistance Program- Employee and Customer Referral Program- For positions in California, long-term and short-term disability insurance
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in San Jose,CA.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Oct 30, 2025.
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**Summary:**
The Meta Reality Labs Wearable Audio Technology Team (WATT) cares and designs for end-users to be frictionless and naturally connected with their loved ones in compelling device form factors where sound is a vital facet. As an Audio Transducer Design Engineer you will have a high degree of device architectural and audio transducer design and integration influence. Together with your colleagues, you drive the development of the next cutting-edge social-fist hardware devices across wearable audio only, smart, display and AR Glasses. You will work in a vibrant audio community on all aspects of audio device and sub-system architecture, design and development. You engage from early simulation-driven concept work where we guide you to leverage and deploy limitless high performance compute to virtually down-select and quickly build-up successful experimental proof-of-concept prototypes. On the way to mass production, you fully negotiate device integration, optimize transducer components and iterate with grit to pass our rigorous acoustic, power consumption, reliability, cost and reuse requirements. You employ systematic, data driven virtual and experimental design methods, objective and subjective audio evaluation and a commonsense attitude to complex engineering challenges. You know when the time is to hold the line - and when to let go moving forward. The best fit for the role will be a gregarious communicator who has the capacity to describe audio architecture and transducers and accompanying acoustic passive component challenges and solutions in a clear and concise manner. You frame qualitative experiences to quantitative data during cross-functional dialogs to balance a given form factor with acoustic performance, reliability, power consumption and cost. WATT has comprehensive acoustic facilities, equipment, working methods and overall ownership of the full device acoustic performance from early-stage architectural concepts to mass production.
**Required Skills:**
Audio Transducer Design Engineer Responsibilities:
1. Primary cross-functional interface with PD/ID/EE/GSM/TPM/EPM/etc. and internal interface with our audio tuners and audio algorithm and perceptual developers
2. You will design custom moving coil and MEMS speakers and optimize vendor components and sub-components for best cost, acoustic (sensitivity/efficiency & distortion), power and reliability performance related to their enclosures, ports, passive radiators, grills, acoustic meshes dictated by the form factor
3. Present concise and coherent observations, conclusions and recommendations of high-fidelity virtual simulations and experimental measurements to establish performance targets and concepts to gaining cross-functional and leadership buy-in
4. Multi-physic linear and non-linear harmonic and transient simulations of transducers in device form factor and sub-components optimization (suspensions and motors systems) using fast moving lumped-parameter tools (MicroCap, PSpice, MATLAB, etc.) in tandem with advanced continuous-parameter FEA/BEA-tools (COMSOL, ANSYS, Abaqus, etc.)
5. Experimentally benchmark, characterize and verify moving coil and MEMS transducer and performance using industry standard tools (SoundCheck, Audio Precision, Klippel R&D, SCN and NFS, Keyence/Polytec Scanning lasers, acoustic cameras, etc.)
6. Facilitate our manufacturing partners factory test design and test specifications of transducers in their device intended enclosures
7. Building and calibrating non-linear material models based on advanced audio specific dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA)
8. Support bring up and audit new transducer and devices based on Engineering Requirement Specifications (ERS)
9. Evaluate, develop and design-in new materials and new technologies
10. Engineer who involves their head, heart and hands in the development process and enjoys collaborating to identify and close design issues
**Minimum Qualifications:**
Minimum Qualifications:
11. Bachelors Degree in Acoustics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience
12. 6+ years of experience working with micro-speakers, full-range, mid-range, woofer or tweeter transducers
13. 3+ years of experience working cross-functionally on consumer hardware products with understanding of assembly techniques, audio materials and transducer design methods
14. Proficiency in failure analysis (both hands-on and analyzing data)
**Preferred Qualifications:**
Preferred Qualifications:
15. M.Sc.EE, M.Sc.ME or Ph.D. in Acoustics, Physics or equivalent
16. Audio architectural and design experience
17. Avid user of COMSOLs linear (harmonic) and non-linear (transient) Acoustic, AC/DC and Structural modules
**Public Compensation:**
$139,000/year to $200,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
**Industry:** Internet
**Equal Opportunity:**
Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.
Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at

**Make an impact with NTT DATA**
Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion - it's a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.
**Your day at NTT DATA**
As a Senior Collaboration Technology Sales & Design Engineer at NTT DATA, you will be a dual expert in AV system design and collaboration technology sales. You'll lead the full design process-from ideation to production-while also driving sales opportunities and building trusted relationships with clients. This hybrid role combines technical leadership with strategic sales engagement, ensuring that every solution is tailored to meet client goals and business outcomes.
You'll use a blend of sales methodologies, opportunity plans, and account plans to keep the sales process on track. Your deep understanding of the client's business, combined with your knowledge of technology solutions, will allow you to personalize recommendations effectively. By continuously assessing risks and developing new business channels, you'll ensure that our collaborations align with client objectives and lead to long-term success.
**To thrive in this role, you need to have:**
**Sales & Client Engagement**
+ Identify, qualify, and close collaboration technology opportunities within assigned accounts.
+ Generate and manage your own sales pipeline while partnering with Client Managers and pre-sales architects.
+ Conduct client workshops and presentations to articulate solution value and secure deals.
+ Define and execute sales strategies to penetrate new markets and meet/exceed sales quotas.
+ Maintain awareness of competitive landscape, pricing, and vendor offerings.
+ Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, including senior leadership.
+ Design & Engineering
+ Lead the development of AV system designs, including drawings, BOMs, SOWs, and cost proposals.
+ Collaborate with internal teams and clients to understand requirements and deliver optimized solutions.
+ Create conceptual diagrams and detailed documentation to support implementation and delivery.
+ Conduct site visits to assess conditions and incorporate findings into system designs.
+ Ensure successful handover to installation and support teams through thorough documentation and standardization.
+ Stay current with emerging technologies and contribute to process improvements.
Required Skills & Abilities:
+ Proven success in achieving and exceeding sales and financial goals.
+ Advanced ability to build meaningful client relationships and influence decision-makers.
+ Strong presentation and communication skills across technical and executive audiences.
+ Deep understanding of AV systems, conferencing platforms, and network architecture.
+ Proficiency in AutoCAD, Visio, and Microsoft Office Suite.
+ Ability to interpret architectural drawings and integrate AV solutions.
+ Exceptional problem-solving, negotiation, and customer service skills.
+ Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to urgent deadlines.
**Workplace type** **:**
Remote Working
**About NTT DATA**
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo.
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