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[Apply on Stryker’s careers site →](https://stryker.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/StrykerCareers/job/San-Jose-California/Senior-Staff-Acoustic-Engineer_R575511) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [Stryker](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/stryker/) / Senior Staff Acoustic Engineer ## Job 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. ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Oct 20, 2026 - First seen by OpenNash: Oct 25, 2026 - Last checked: Nov 1, 2026 - Listed for: 12 days - Location: San Jose, California - Pay: $133,400 - $222,300[Apply on Stryker’s careers site →](https://stryker.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/StrykerCareers/job/San-Jose-California/Senior-Staff-Acoustic-Engineer_R575511) ## Hiring at Stryker - Open jobs: 1,468 - New in the last 7 days: After two weekly collections - Tracked since: Jul 10, 2026 [All Stryker jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/stryker/) · [Weekly hiring report](/reports/hiring/) ## More jobs at Stryker ### [Senior Manager, Sourcing Endoscopy Business Unit (Hybrid)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/stryker/jobs/6b48db80d4e43004cd04/) San Jose, California ### [Senior Manager, Strategy & Operational Readiness](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/stryker/jobs/3d86400db0d0909ae1f8/) San Jose, California ### [Senior Staff Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/stryker/jobs/07d630a71d622318e184/) San Jose, California ### [JR Sales Associate - San Jose, CA](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/stryker/jobs/a509f511203b37838b90/) San Jose, California ### [R&D Technician](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/stryker/jobs/d37a17663f8f840a8823/) San Jose, California ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Sonar Engineer/ Acoustic Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/lockheed-martin/jobs/83d547a9a4ef976f5770/) Lockheed Martin · Liverpool, NY ### [Senior Acoustic Engineer, Fauna](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/0a232cd1cfcfbe201628/) Amazon · US, NY, New York ### [Acoustic Engineer – Medical Device (Cambridge, MA)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/philips/jobs/4f25d2164464b81a1f47/) Philips · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States ### [Acoustic Test Engineer 2/3](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/northrop-grumman/jobs/15f2d0215574e0f455a2/) Northrop Grumman · United States-California-Sunnyvale ### [Acoustic Engineer – iPad, Mac & Home Acoustics](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/apple/jobs/3cf27287bd40c846e581/) Apple · San Francisco Bay Area, United States of America OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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