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Senior Staff Acoustic Engineer

Stryker

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Base salary $133,400  to $222,300

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Jose, CA

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  • LocationSan Jose, CA
  • WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
  • Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
  • Last checked (51 min ago) · observed since

About this job

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.

Source: Stryker on Workday · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($133,400) is above 33% of the 3,579 Engineering (non-software) roles in California listed on this site; 1 other lists the same floor. Their median floor is $147,000; the middle half runs from $125,000 to $173,000.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 8, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Stryker roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Stryker roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Senior Staff Acoustic Engineer (this listing)$133,400 - $222,300
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Principal, Cybersecurity Incident Responder - RemoteFrom $135,600
Manager, Cybersecurity, Non-Human Identity Security - RemoteFrom $135,600
Principal, Cybersecurity Automation - RemoteFrom $135,600
Director, Finance$135,600 - $225,900

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Stryker roles · How to read the bar

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2026-10-19
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Location as the employer wrote it: San Jose, California

$133,400 - $222,300 USD Annual

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