Role overview
**Applied Perception Scientist**
**Location:**
Fully Onsite - Redmond, WA
**Duration:**
12-month contract with probable extension/conversion
**Pay Rate:**
$85/hr on W2
**Benefits:**
Medical, dental, vision; paid vacation/sick leave; 401k
Our client is a leading research organization with a world-class researchers, developers, and engineers, who collaborate to actively create a future where virtual and augmented reality become as indispensable as today's smartphones and personal computers.
The mission of our client's Audio team is to engineer augmented audio that redefines human hearing capabilities. This will allow us to connect people by facilitating conversation in even the most challenging auditory environment.
We are seeking a contract applied research scientist specializing in the perception of tonal languages.
This role is an integral part of our team, contributing to our research and development efforts.
The ideal candidate will help us explore and understand individualized audio quality preferences and experiences, enabling us to tailor our technologies to meet unique user needs.
**Responsibilities:**
* Oversee and drive research projects on speech quality, statistically analyze results and report findings.
* Monitor problems, facilitate resolution, and proactively keep projects on track.
* Implement and conduct pilot listening tests and other perceptual experiences.
* Regularly report on project progress, dependencies and risks to stakeholders.
* Support research scientists and engineers within the team.
* Manage procurement projects for equipment and vendor services.
* Willingness to "roll up sleeves" and take on operational tasks in support of the team's goals.
**Qualifications:**
* Interpersonal and communication skills, with strong attention to detail.
* Proactive with ability to execute on multiple projects simultaneously.
* Strong organizational and time management skills.
* Track record of communicating research on speech perception, hearing sciences or auditory perception in an academic or industrial setting.
* Experience with data collection with human participants.
* Experience working in a fast-paced research and/or product development environment.
* Experience with scientific programming languages such as
**Matlab, Python**
, C++, or R.
* Master's degree or equivalent experience in Computational Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Electrical Engineering, Perception, Experimental Psychology, Audio Engineering, Acoustics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Audiology or a related field.
**Must-Have Qualifications:**
* **Experience with tonal languages and speaks at least one tonal language (Mandarin, Cantonese, similar - working on internationalization change in the role)**
* **PhD degree or equivalent experience.**
* **Experience with AI generative speech.**
* **Experience with modeling audio quality.**
*Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation. #TMN*