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You will collaborate with internal engineering teams, suppliers, and Joint Design Manufacturer (JDM) partners to deliver innovative, reliable, and manufacturable products.\nLead acoustic and audio hardware development across the full product lifecycle, from concept and architecture through design, validation, production launch, sustaining, and end-of-life.\nDefine, design, and optimize audio and acoustic architectures, including microphones, speakers, amplifiers, codecs, and associated audio signal paths.\nPerform acoustic characterization, testing, tuning, and performance optimization at the component, subsystem, and product levels.\nDrive hardware development and integration across audio, battery and charging, power management, sensors, touchscreen, processors, memory, and related subsystems.\nProvide technical leadership to JDM engineering teams, including board-level design, implementation, integration, debugging, schematic review, component selection, PCB layout, and design documentation.\nDevelop comprehensive hardware and acoustic requirements, specifications, interface definitions, validation criteria, and verification and validation plans.\nLead prototype bring-up, system characterization, debugging, and root-cause analysis of complex acoustic, electrical, and system-level issues.\nCharacterize and optimize overall system performance across audio quality, power consumption, battery life, thermal performance, reliability, and manufacturability.\nWhat You Will Need:\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Acoustical Engineering, or a related engineering field, with 6+ years of relevant product development experience.\nProven experience developing handheld, mobile, wireless, or battery-powered electronic products, including full hardware development, integration, validation, and manufacturing support.\nStrong expertise in audio and acoustic system architecture, design, integration, characterization, and optimization, including microphones, speakers, amplifiers, codecs, audio interfaces, and signal paths.\nHands-on experience with acoustic measurement, testing, tuning, debugging, and product-level audio optimization using appropriate audio and acoustic measurement equipment.\nStrong 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.\nKnowledge 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.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience 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.\nProven 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 \n$133,400 - $222,300 USD Annual\nTravel 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. 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