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Senior Staff Acoustic Engineer

Stryker

San Jose, CAOnsitePosted 12 days ago$133,400 - $222,300/year
Full TimeSenior LevelManufacturing & CMCMedical Device
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Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced and hands-on Senior Staff Acoustic Hardware Engineer to help develop the next generation of Smart Care products and reshape the Smart Hospital experience in critical care environments.

Job description

What You Will Do

We are seeking a highly experienced and hands-on Senior Staff Acoustic Hardware Engineer to help develop the next generation of Smart Care products and reshape the Smart Hospital experience in critical care environments.

In this role, you will lead the design, integration, and optimization of acoustic, audio, and hardware systems for handheld, battery-powered products. You will collaborate with internal engineering teams, suppliers, and Joint Design Manufacturer (JDM) partners to deliver innovative, reliable, and manufacturable products.

  • Lead acoustic and audio hardware development across the full product lifecycle, from concept and architecture through design, validation, production launch, sustaining, and end-of-life.
  • Define, design, and optimize audio and acoustic architectures, including microphones, speakers, amplifiers, codecs, and associated audio signal paths.
  • Perform acoustic characterization, testing, tuning, and performance optimization at the component, subsystem, and product levels.
  • Drive hardware development and integration across audio, battery and charging, power management, sensors, touchscreen, processors, memory, and related subsystems.
  • Provide technical leadership to JDM engineering teams, including board-level design, implementation, integration, debugging, schematic review, component selection, PCB layout, and design documentation.
  • Develop comprehensive hardware and acoustic requirements, specifications, interface definitions, validation criteria, and verification and validation plans.
  • Lead prototype bring-up, system characterization, debugging, and root-cause analysis of complex acoustic, electrical, and system-level issues.
  • Characterize and optimize overall system performance across audio quality, power consumption, battery life, thermal performance, reliability, and manufacturability.

What You Will Need

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Acoustical Engineering, or a related engineering field, with 6+ years of relevant product development experience.
  • Proven experience developing handheld, mobile, wireless, or battery-powered electronic products, including full hardware development, integration, validation, and manufacturing support.
  • Strong expertise in audio and acoustic system architecture, design, integration, characterization, and optimization, including microphones, speakers, amplifiers, codecs, audio interfaces, and signal paths.
  • Hands-on experience with acoustic measurement, testing, tuning, debugging, and product-level audio optimization using appropriate audio and acoustic measurement equipment.
  • Strong hardware design experience across battery and charging technologies, power management, low-power design, embedded processors, memory, sensors, touchscreen technologies, and high- and low-speed digital interfaces.
  • Knowledge of ARM or x86 processor architectures and low-power memory architectures, with proven ability to design, review, bring up, and debug complex circuit boards and system-level hardware issues.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience reviewing and directing multi-layer PCB designs, including fine-pitch BGAs, sensitive analog/audio circuitry, high-speed signals, power distribution, signal integrity, EMI/EMC, thermal management, reliability, and manufacturability.
  • Proven hands-on debugging and validation experience using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and acoustic/audio measurement equipment, including prototype bring-up, functional verification, system integration, root-cause analysis, and manufacturing support.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Acoustical Engineering, or a related engineering field
  • 6+ years of relevant product development experience
  • Proven experience developing handheld, mobile, wireless, or battery-powered electronic products
  • Strong expertise in audio and acoustic system architecture, design, integration, characterization, and optimization
  • Hands-on experience with acoustic measurement, testing, tuning, debugging, and product-level audio optimization
  • Strong hardware design experience across battery and charging technologies, power management, low-power design, embedded processors, memory, sensors, touchscreen technologies, and high- and low-speed digital interfaces
  • Knowledge of ARM or x86 processor architectures and low-power memory architectures
  • Proven ability to design, review, bring up, and debug complex circuit boards and system-level hardware issues

Company overview

Stryker is a global leader in medical technology, founded in 1941 by Dr. Homer Stryker and headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan. As one of the world's premier medical device companies, Stryker operates across three major business segments: Medical and Surgical Equipment, Orthopaedics and Spine, and Neurotechnology. The company impacts more than 150 million patients annually through its innovative products and services sold in over 75 countries worldwide. With approximately 53,000 employees globally and annual sales of $22.6 billion in 2024, Stryker maintains a strong commitment to research and development, investing $1.5 billion in R&D annually. The company's diverse portfolio includes surgical instruments, orthopedic implants, neurovascular devices, endoscopic systems, and advanced digital healthcare solutions. Stryker is recognized for its Mako robotic-assisted surgery systems and has been consistently ranked as one of Fortune's World's Best Workplaces for eight consecutive years, demonstrating its commitment to corporate culture and employee development.

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