--- title: Senior Staff Acoustic Engineer at Stryker description: Stryker is hiring for the Senior Staff Acoustic Engineer role in San Jose, CA. Pays $133.4K–$222.3K per year. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/senior-staff-acoustic-engineer-at-stryker-01a156b2-0c23-7fce-8a11-59a335a87176 date: 2026-10-20T01:23:38Z og_description: Join Stryker as Senior Staff Acoustic Engineer in San Jose, CA. Pays $133.4K–$222.3K per year. Full-time, on-site role. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/9y0034.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | [Stryker](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/stryker?utm_source=ai_markdown) | | **Location** | San Jose, CA | | **Salary** | $133.4K/yr - $222.3K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Oct 19, 2026 | ## Description Work Flexibility: Onsite **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 Travel Percentage: 10% 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. Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. ## Skills - Debugging - Technical Leadership - Amplifiers - Acoustical Engineering - Performance Optimization - Material Characterization - Design for Manufacturing (Dfm) - Logic Analyzer - Root Cause Analysis - Electromagnetic Interference And Compatibility (Emc/emi) - Hardware Development - Thermal Management - Analog Circuit Design - Directing - Sensor Systems - Spectrum Analyzer - Hardware Bring-up - New Product Development - Signal Integrity - Electromagnetic Compatibility (Emc) Compliance - Power Management - Acoustics - Level Design - PCB Design - Embedded Systems - Hardware Design - Oscilloscope - Systems Architecture - Technical Documentation - Computer Engineering - Systems Integration - Memory Architecture - Low Power Design - ARM Architecture - Verification And Validation - Electrical Engineering - Power Distribution - Precision Measuring Instruments - Critical Care ## Related - [More jobs at Stryker](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/stryker?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Arts, Media & Entertainment jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/arts-media-and-entertainment?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Film, Video & Media Production jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/arts-media-and-entertainment/film-video-and-media-production?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Acoustic Consultant jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/arts-media-and-entertainment/film-video-and-media-production/acoustic-consultant?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Explore this job market - [California](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 273509 jobs - [Medical Equipment Manufacturing](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/healthcare/medical-equipment-manufacturing?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 53442 jobs - [San Jose, CA](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california/san-jose?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 11326 jobs - [Stryker](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/stryker?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 1131 jobs ## Related pages - [California](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 273509 jobs - [Medical Equipment Manufacturing](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/healthcare/medical-equipment-manufacturing?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 53442 jobs - [San Jose, CA](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california/san-jose?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 11326 jobs - [Stryker](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/stryker?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 1131 jobs ## Browse - [Companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by country](https://www.foundrole.com/locations?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs in the United States by state and city](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B sponsors by location](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-sponsors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B salaries](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-salaries?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Sectors and industries](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by career field](https://www.foundrole.com/careers?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Latest jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/latest?utm_source=ai_markdown)