Also called: Hearing Technology Engineer, Hearables Engineer
Designs tiny hearing aids and hearing-health earbuds that help people hear conversations clearly.
You test a new hearing aid on a dummy head in a noisy fake restaurant to see if speech comes through clearly. You adjust the settings and run a test with real users who tell you what still sounds muffled.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in electrical or biomedical engineering; master's common.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Audiology.
Growing faster than average (about 7% over 10 years). Tracks electronics engineers; over-the-counter hearing aids are expanding the market.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI now handles much noise filtering inside hearing aids, shifting work to ML; fitting tests with real users stay human.
Classes: AP Physics, AP Biology, Computer science, Electronics class.
Official data: O*NET occupation 17-2072.
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