Staff DSP Engineer – Audio & Voice

Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite Vocera now a part of Stryker is looking for a Staff DSP Engineer – Audio & Voice with strong experience in audio and speech processing to develop and optimize audio solutions for embedded healthcare communication products. Key Responsibilities • Develop and optimize audio algorithms including echo cancellation, noise reduction, beamforming, AGC, VAD, dereverberation, and speech enhancement. • Work on multi-microphone arrays and far-field speech capture for challenging acoustic environments. • Improve speech intelligibility in the presence of background noise, reverberation, and multiple speakers. • Analyze and optimize the complete audio path from microphone and DSP processing through the device, network, and remote endpoint. • Use objective audio-quality measurements to evaluate and improve performance. • Debug complex audio issues using raw and processed recordings, spectrograms, and acoustic measurements. • Optimize real-time DSP algorithms for CPU, memory, latency, and power. • Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and work closely with firmware, hardware, application, validation, and external partners. Qualifications • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Signal Processing, Computer Engineering, or a related field. • 6 to 8 years of experience in audio DSP, speech processing, or acoustic signal processing. • Strong understanding of AEC, noise suppression, beamforming, microphone arrays, adaptive filtering, FFT, AGC, and VAD. • Strong C/C++ programming skills and experience with real-time embedded systems. Preferred Experience Experience with WebRTC audio processing, Embedded Linux or Android audio, Python or MATLAB, Opus, RTP/SRTP, VoIP or conferencing systems, and AI-based speech enhancement is preferred. Travel Percentage: 10%