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As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.\nWhat You’ll Do\nElectrical hardware Design, test, implement and support product redesign/refresh and cost-reduction project.\n\nSupport traditional sustaining responsibilities such as failure analysis, component qualifications and performance improvements.\n\nParticipate in multi-disciplinary project teams to drive a design change for a specific purpose.\n\nProvide “lessons-learned” feedback to the Product Development team and participate in design reviews to ensure that the next generation of Sonos products are better than ever.\n\nPartner cross-functionally with Quality and Customer Support to fully understand the user experience and any design change implications.\n\nWork directly with our Compliance Engineering team to ensure our product’s continued compliance with regulations and international standards.\n\nDrive continuous improvements in engineering processes and best practices.\n\nTravel to our JDM partners and suppliers to support product builds and resolve technical problems, as needed.\n\nWhat You’ll Need\nThe ideal candidate will have a combination of electrical designand sustainingengineering work experience and demonstrated technical abilities. 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