Research Working Student

**What you will do**:
To help us bring amazing hearing technology to more people around the world, we are looking for a Research Working Student in Berlin. The position shall be part-time with a workload of 15-20 h/week, initially limited to 6 months with an option for extension to 12 months.

As our Research Working Student you will...
- Support Mimi's efforts in hearing testing and sound processing in collaboration with researchers and engineers:

- Design and establish setups and protocols for (spatial) acoustic measurements
- Perform technical measurements on acoustic hardware (headphones and microphones) and analyse corresponding data
- Support data acquisition in research studies with human participants (on-location and remote/online)
- Analyze acquired data and present findings to relevant stakeholders
- Enable development and refinement of state-of-the-art audio signal processing
- Support creation of datasets for training and testing ML-methods
- Perform technical simulations to characterise and optimise deep learning-based signal processing algorithms
- Run listening tests to measure and validate algorithm performance
- Assess relevant scientific literature in areas such as signal processing and listening testing and discuss outcomes with the team

**What you bring to the table**:

- Student of acoustics, audiology, perceptual psychology, media technology, or a similar field
- Experience with acoustic measurements in headphone and/or spatial setups
- Highly motivated to autonomously solve problems
- Fluent in English, intermediate to fluent German skills (Level B2 or above)
- Great attention to detail and superb organisational skills
- Enjoy communicating and working with study participants of various ages and states of hearing
- Available ~15-20h per week, for 6 months, available to work at our Berlin office for at least one day per week

**Nice to have**:

- Experience in technical acoustic measurements, headphone and/or spatial acoustics
- Basic knowledge of ML/deep learning methods, collection of data for training & testing
- Experience with speech processing and/or the assessment of speech intelligibility
- Experience in human perceptual testing, psycho-acoustics/-physics, including corresponding data analysis methods
- Experience in setting up and using local laboratory or remote research setups for auditory research
- Experience with programming in Python / Jupyter / Pandas or comparable setups

**What success looks like in this role**:
In 3 months: You actively supported Mimi researchers in 2-3 research study projects and learned about Mimi's specific research and product context.

In 6 months: You are able to draft, prepare and organise a research study on your own, with support from Mimi researchers, and present the findings to the team.

**What we offer**:

- 1500-1800 €/month at 20h/week depending on qualifications and experience
- 24 vacation days (if working 5 days/week; correspondingly: 19.2 if working 4 days/week, 14.4 days if working 3 days/week)
- A diverse and international team of dedicated domain experts
- Flexible working arrangements and full responsibility for your own projects
- A hybrid way of working with an open modern office and partial working from home opportunities
- Corporate benefits include regular free office lunches and a program with over 100 discounts for gyms, travel etc

**About us**:
Mimi Hearing Technologies is a global leader in sound personalization and hearing well-being technology that can be easily integrated into any consumer audio device. Mimi provides the number one digital hearing test app on the market and a flexible software development kit (SDK) with digital signal processing (DSP) integration to enable advanced personalized sound technology into a wide range of devices. Mimi works across multiple listening environments including wireless headphones, TV and smartphones, so listeners can enjoy truly personalized audio wherever they are while protecting their hearing at the same time. We are integrating value beyond audio quality into a consumer product's listening experience by partnering with some of the leaders in consumer electronics including Skullcandy, Nothing and Philips.

Find out more about our team and working culture to imagine yourself as our next Mimian here.