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Senior Staff Acoustic Engineer

Stryker

San Jose, CAJob$133–222K/yrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago

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Compensation
$133–222K/yr
Location
San Jose, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

Stryker is seeking a Senior Staff Acoustic Hardware Engineer to develop acoustic, audio, and hardware systems for handheld, battery-powered Smart Care products. The role leads product development from concept through production and end-of-life, collaborates with engineering teams and manufacturing partners, and provides technical leadership in design, integration, validation, and debugging. The position focuses on delivering reliable, manufacturable products for critical care environments.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Product DevelopmentHardware IntegrationHardware ValidationManufacturing SupportAudio System ArchitectureAcoustic System DesignAcoustic MeasurementAudio TuningAudio OptimizationBattery and ChargingPower ManagementLow-Power DesignEmbedded ProcessorsMemory ArchitecturesSensorsTouchscreen TechnologiesDigital InterfacesARM or X86 ArchitecturesCircuit Board DesignCircuit Board DebuggingPCB Design ReviewOscilloscopesLogic AnalyzersSpectrum AnalyzersAcoustic Measurement EquipmentPrototype Bring-UpFunctional VerificationSystem IntegrationRoot-Cause AnalysisSignal IntegrityEMI/EMCThermal ManagementReliability Engineering

Qualifications

6+ Years Product Development ExperienceHandheld Product Development

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match

Full 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.undefinedundefined

$133,400 - $222,300 USD Annual

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,947 open Hardware Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$133–222K/yr
  • California median$146–214K/yr906 salary ranges
  • US median$131–201K/yr2,158 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $178K, is close to the California median midpoint ($178K) — in the middle half of Hardware Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,197 open Hardware Engineer jobs in California and 2,947 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience; Hardware Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,476 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,840 of the 2,947 open Hardware Engineer jobs (62%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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