Staff DSP Engineer – Audio & Voice

Location: Bengaluru, India

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%

Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. **We are proud to be named one of the World’s Best Workplaces!** For more information, visit: [www.stryker.com](https://www.stryker.com)

**Work Flexibility**

• **Remote** – Role allows you to work the majority to 100% of time from an alternate workplace. These roles could have travel expectations, and you must work within the country of the job requisition location.

• **Field-based** – You can expect to regularly work a majority to 100% of time at customer facilities and has a set territory or expectation to travel within a set boundary. Almost all sales roles would likely be qualified as field-based.

• **Onsite –** Role is 100% located at a Stryker facility. Some ad hoc flexibility may be available depending on role, level, and job requirements. Manufacturing roles and any role that requires physical presence at the office would qualify under this category.

• **Hybrid** – You can expect to regularly work in both an alternate workplace and a Stryker facility. Roles that are partially remote or co-located would qualify as hybrid, and the expectation to be onsite would be defined and agreed upon by your manager/supervisor.