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%