Best N.A. Audio Manufacturers to Work For?

What is your area of expertise?
Not that many audio companies are overly high-tech. I would think long and hard about what you are passionate about. People put down Bose, but their R&D budget is likely many time other companies discussed here. For companies (within companies) like Harman, a good portion of advanced R&D is for things like automotive.

Part of the problem will be convincing someone I can actually help them. I’m a social psychologist, so skill wise I’m an expert at human testing, experimentation, data collection, and data analysis. As part of the gig, I’m also a professional speaker, technical writer, and manager. Incidentally, I can solder and do computer programming.

Content wise, I’m an expert on advertising, attitudes and persuasion, & judgement and decision making. I’ve published in all these areas and have had over $1 million in grants to study the processes. Have also published research on the evolutionary function of music (and have been interviewed by national geographic about the work).

Really just trying to translate all this skill and knowledge into a new career in the industry. Would love to help someone who’s making world leading equipment with their mission.

I think the problem most high-end audio companies have is in the "customer relation", or to be more specific, it's the connection between the "technology" and the final "end user experience".  No matter how fancy the technology, it only matters if the end users will derive some form of pleasure from the said "technology".  Most posters in this forum is not representative of the "masses" and most people don't really care for the "technologies", at least not the same way as most posters here.    

And to be honest about it, most of the technologies are more or less, nowaday, are fairly well understood.  Not much really are ground-breaking, so to speak.  The companies that are really successful are those, interestingly enough, who know how to market their products, not those with the most fancy technologies because most end users can't relate to them anyway - I mean what the hell is "time-phase coherent anyway"?  Who the hell the average user can tell what the hell it is?.

Sorry for some of the blunt languages.  But it seems like you're in a career path in which you will be in a lot of customer relation situations, so you're probably no stranger in "blunt language" :-)  But at the very least, regardless of one's background, some understanding of the technologies would help.  

I used to be in Bose, it didn’t work out for me, because I found out that I'm more into marine than an audio sphere. But I still don't have a job, so I might come back.