Research Scientist V- #26-24347
Job Location:
Redmond, WA - USA
Hourly Salary:
USD 80 - 90
Posted:
29 September 2026 (6 days ago)
Application Deadline:
27 December 2026
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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:
About US Tech Solutions:
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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 .
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.
AI Statement: By applying you acknowledge that AI-assisted tools may be used during hiring.
#LI-AS140
Required Experience:
IC