Audeze Experience 2021- 2022 + AI Time Magazine Article

Headphones, Speakers, AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Electrode Sensors

When I got out of college I couldn't find a job right away. The interview process took months. I was on the third round of interviews with Tesla and was beginning to interview for Arrow electronics. I contacted two college classmates to see if they knew of any job openings. One, who was working in an assembly line at a headphone company named Audeze, said there was an opening for packaging boxes through a temp agency. I took the position. I did that for a few weeks when my college acquaintance said she had another job lined up and was getting ready to part ways from Audeze, our manager had asked why she was leaving and she let him know that she had a degree in electrical engineering and she was looking for jobs that were closer in that field. She let him know that I had a degree in electrical engineering as well. Later that day the manager passed by the assembly line. He asked if I had a degree in electrical engineering. I said yes and asked why I hadn't said something and if I had a resume. Along with my college friends resume I gave him mine. I interviewed shortly with the CEO, Sankar. He asked why I was working in the assembly line with a degree in electrical engineering. I told him about the long interview process; the job interviews I had with arrow electronics and the vacation my family had planned and was already paid for. The position at Tesla fell through, they went with another candidate. Arrow electronics needed an immediate hire and rescinded the offer after I let them know about the vacation, it fell about a week or two after the start date. Sankar, extended the offer and okayed the vacation even with no accumulated vacation time, and I accepted. I was to start officially as an engineer at Audeze after my vacation. 

Audeze was the best out of college engineering experience I could have imagined and possible one of my favorite jobs to date.

The I designed cable testers and a magnet tester using KiCAD schematic and PCB designs for assembly lines I wrote the instructions for their use. 

I got to see the user instruction for the magnet tester translated into mandarin and I sent it to the assembly lines in China. The magnet tester tested the polarity of magnets in the diaphragm housing of the Audeze Filter speaker. The speaker is an easy to carry conference room speaker. For the speaker I also tested the AI algorithms and Bluetooth distance and began to create the testing procedure for the speaker. I testing white noise, pink noise, other frequencies and decibels. Dr. C helped create the standard of distance from microphone to speaker and the placing of the microphone to speaker.   

Audeze filter went on to win Time Magazines Best Invention of the year for 2022 for the AI algorithims that canceled background noise while holding conversations. 

Audeze Filter Conference Speaker: The 200 Best Inventions of 2022 | TIME

The cable testers were designed for the new electrostatic headphones there were designing. These headphones were MRI safe and its only the second design in existence to be MRI machine safe. 

Besides the cables and speaker I was also working on a really fun project that I unfortunately did not get to finish. The project would have created electrodes for the purpose of mapping attention spans. There are already headphones in the market that map attention spans. The goal was to create a more comfortable solution for electrodes in the headband as well as an application that goes along with the headphones for the attention mapping portion.