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%