Staff DSP Audio Engineer

Company: Vocera
Location: San Jose
Posted on: January 14, 2021

Job Description:

DescriptionLocation: San Jose, United States Type of Employee: Full TimeVocera delivers the leading platform for clinical communication and workflow. Our mission is to simplify and improve the lives of healthcare professionals and patients while enabling hospitals to enhance quality of care and operational efficiency. Hospitals and health systems around the world have selected our solutions to enable care teams to communicate and collaborate using smartphones or our hands-free, wearable Vocera Smartbadge and Vocera Badge. Our platform is interoperable with most clinical and operational systems used in hospitals. In addition to healthcare, Vocera is found in luxury hotels, aged care facilities, retail stores, schools, power facilities, libraries, and more. Vocera is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices in San Francisco, Indiana, Canada, India, United Arab Emirates, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Learn more at and follow VoceraComm on Twitter.Position Description: Vocera is seeking a high energy DSP Audio Engineer for our world class engineering team. This role requires a deep experience in DSP techniques, particularly in solving audio challenges. You will provide technical leadership to a multi-functional team of engineers and deliver Vocera---s flagship audio experience. The ideal candidate will have proven hands on experience with delivering embedded products on DSPs and contemporary application processors. This role reports to the Director of Device Engineering.ResponsibilitiesLead the delivery of the industry---s best speech signal processing technologies in our portfolio of wearable devicesAs the architect, key developer and domain authority of the Voice Engine, you will deliver key features to create production differentiationWork with the Vocera platform team to enhance our best in class speech recognitionEffectively collaborate with hardware, mechanical and firmware engineers to implement a top-quality audio product designProvide technical leadership for development partnershipsProvide guidance and recommendations to members of the product team in solving critical development and customer issuesCompetenciesExtensive experience with designing, implementing and enhancing audio signal processing algorithms, and their integration into embedded softwareDeep understanding of adaptive signal processing, digital filter design, system identification and stochastic signal processingExcellent verbal and written communication skills demonstrated by the ability to drive technical decisionsHighly motivated and self-starter with a real passion for developing ground breaking technologyAbility to use audio benchmarking and debug techniques to evaluate and optimize system performanceHands-on experience developing DSP applications using multi-threaded conceptsAbility to assess impact of hardware and mechanical designs on the audio sub-systemRequirementsBSEE or MSEE with emphasis in Audio Signal Processing or Digital Communications or equivalent12 years of experience building embedded communications products based on DSP---s or ARM processorsProven record of hands on audio software product development from concept to releaseDemonstrated experience with C, DSP/ARM Assembly and real time, multi-threaded applicationsWell-rounded expertise in the field of signal processing, real-time system design and acoustics for the speech subsystemExpertise in related fields highly desired: speech coding, acoustic echo cancellers, active noise reduction and cancellation, voice over IP or voice over WLAN, high speed modem design, digital cellular system designUp to 10% travel requiredBelief in DiversityVocera Communications is an Affirmative Action Employer committed to workforce diversity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, or genetic information.

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