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Acoustic Lab Manager

Hark · San Jose · On-site

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About Hark

At Hark, we are building the most advanced personal intelligence in the world.

About the role

We're looking for an experienced Acoustics Lab Manager to run Hark's acoustic test lab and serve as lead technician for the audio team. You will own the physical infrastructure every acoustic measurement at Hark depends on: the anechoic chamber and corresponding measurement facilities, turntable and microphone arrays, and the calibration, maintenance, and inventory systems that keep the labs organized.

What they're looking for

  • 4+ years of hands-on experience running an acoustic test lab or equivalent measurement environment
  • Practical experience with turntables, microphone arrays, and anechoic or hemi-anechoic chamber setups
  • Strong working knowledge of loudspeaker and microphone measurements
  • Experience with acoustic measurement software and hardware such as Klippel, SoundCheck, or Audio Precision
  • Excellent organizational skills, comfortable owning equipment inventory, calibration tracking, and procurement
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
More about this role

Hark is an artificial intelligence company building advanced, personalized intelligence. One that is proactive, multimodal, and capable of interacting with the world through speech, text, vision, and persistent memory.

We're pairing that intelligence with next-generation hardware to create a universal interface between humans and machines. While today's AI largely operates through chat boxes and decade-old devices, Hark is focused on what comes next: agentic systems that interact naturally with people and the real world.

To get there, we're developing multimodal models and next-generation AI hardware together - designed from the ground up as a single, unified interface for a new era of intelligent systems.

We're looking for an experienced Acoustics Lab Manager to run Hark's acoustic test lab and serve as lead technician for the audio team. You will own the physical infrastructure every acoustic measurement at Hark depends on: the anechoic chamber and corresponding measurement facilities, turntable and microphone arrays, and the calibration, maintenance, and inventory systems that keep the labs organized. You will design and execute test flows spanning axial and polar measurements,...

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