# Staff Audio Test Automation Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,200-$283,500
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is seeking an experienced Staff Audio Test Automation Engineer to lead the automated validation of next-generation In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) audio systems.

In this role, you will design, build, and maintain scalable test suites using Python and pytest to validate multi-channel audio routing, DSP pipelines, external sound systems (AVAS), hands-free calling, and onboard amplifier performance.

Responsibilities:

- Framework Development: Develop and scale automated test libraries in Python (pytest) running on Linux/Ubuntu to interface with multi-channel audio hardware.

- Audio Analysis & DSP Validation: Implement signal-processing algorithms to validate frequency response, channel separation, ducking, mixing, and dynamic gain control.

- Feature & Platform Testing: Validate IVI media playback across multi-channel vehicle configurations, Acoustic Vehicle Alerting Systems (AVAS) pitch/frequency modulation tied to vehicle telemetry, Hands-Free Profile (HFP/VoIP) voice quality, downlink/uplink routing, and acoustic behavior.

- Execute platform-level amplifier and DSP stress tests, monitoring diagnostics, clipping, and fault handling.

- HIL Bench Integration: Setup, calibrate, and maintain bench-level audio hardware, signal routing, gain staging, and electrical isolation.

- CI/CD Integration: Integrate audio test suites into automated build and regression pipelines.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Audio Engineering, Acoustics, or related field.

- Familiarity with AVAS (UN ECE R138 / FMVSS 141) acoustic safety regulations.

- Test Automation: 3+ years of professional experience building automated test frameworks in Python using pytest.

- Audio Signal Processing: Strong theoretical and practical foundation in digital signal processing (DSP) using Python scientific libraries.

- Audio Hardware & Instrumentation: Hands-on experience with multi-channel audio interfaces, line-output converters, microphone/speaker calibration, and gain staging.

- Audio Metrics: Deep familiarity with core acoustic and audio measurements.

Benefits:

- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more

- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

- Tuition assistance

- Established and active employee resource groups

- Paid time off for individual and team community service

- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day

- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- pytest
- Linux/Ubuntu
- Digital Signal Processing
- Audio Signal Processing
- Multi-channel audio hardware
- AVAS
- HFP/VoIP

### Nice to have
- Automotive communication buses
- Automotive audio buses
- Speech quality standards
- Professional audio test instruments

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