Research Working Student

Research Working Student

Intern / Student, Part-time ·Berlin

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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 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

• Objective and subjective sound quality evaluation for speech and music signals

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 room setups
• Experience with sound quality evaluation, e.g. MUSHRA, PESQ, POLQA methods
• 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 work style with a modern office and partial working from home option
• Corporate benefits include regular free office lunches and a program with over 100 discounts for gyms, travel etc