At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.

What You’ll Do

• Electrical hardware Design, test, implement and support product redesign/refresh and cost-reduction project. 

• Support traditional sustaining responsibilities such as failure analysis, component qualifications and performance improvements.

• Participate in multi-disciplinary project teams to drive a design change for a specific purpose.

• Provide “lessons-learned” feedback to the Product Development team and participate in design reviews to ensure that the next generation of Sonos products are better than ever.

• Partner cross-functionally with Quality and Customer Support to fully understand the user experience and any design change implications.

• Work directly with our Compliance Engineering team to ensure our product’s continued compliance with regulations and international standards.

• Drive continuous improvements in engineering processes and best practices.

• Travel to our JDM partners and suppliers to support product builds and resolve technical problems, as needed.

What You’ll Need

The ideal candidate will have a combination of electrical design and sustaining engineering work experience and demonstrated technical abilities. Other important qualifications include:

• Minimum of 5 years of Hardware design/development (PCBA level), electrical engineering experience for a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in product development of consumer electronics. 

• Major experience in the Analog signal chain, audio signal, Class-D amplifier design;

• Experienced in the audio precision testing, troubleshooting, understanding the amplifier circuitry; Experienced in the EMC and compliance testing and troubleshooting. 

• Experience with schematic entry and PCB layout tools, understandable of PCB routing technology especially on the high speed bus. 

• Technically inquisitive – must be able to take on new technical challenges, learn new technical skills on-the-fly and apply that knowledge to solve the issue at hand. 

• Proficient in English, as demonstrated by both verbal and written methods.

• Need to be daily based in SONOS Shanghai office (Minhang district)

• Need to be able to travel to our contract manufacturing production lines to support the builds, testing and debugging. Travel frequency is roughly about once a month depending on the project schedule. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of Hardware design/development (PCBA level), electrical engineering experience for a Master’s degree, or 7 years of experience for a Bachelor’s degree, consumer electronics product and radio system development experience; 

• With experience of power and audio amplifier development experience;

• Understanding of compliance engineering including Safety and EMC/EMI or Radio certification, be able to do EMC debugging and troubleshooting. 

• A mix of product development and operation engineering experience, having cost down projects experience is a plus. 

• Having leadership skills, being able to manage JDM engineers and run projects in JDM way. 

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