Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite

Vocera, now part of Stryker, is looking for a Principal Engineer – AI/ML to help drive the technical direction of our AI-powered voice and speech platform.
You will work closely with engineering teams to build intelligent healthcare solutions, including real-time speech recognition, AI-powered interpretation, ambient documentation, and conversational voice experiences. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on designing scalable AI solutions and guiding engineering teams through architecture and implementation decisions.

What You'll Do
- Lead the technical architecture for AI-powered voice and speech applications.
- Evaluate and recommend AI models for different use cases such as speech recognition, transcription, translation, summarization, and conversational AI.
- Design and build scalable backend services using Java and Python.
- Work with Azure AI services, including Azure Voice Live API, Speech Services, and Azure OpenAI.
- Design low-latency, real-time speech processing pipelines.
- Collaborate with product, engineering,



and AI teams to deliver production-ready AI solutions.
- Drive technical decisions around model selection, performance, latency, scalability, and cost optimization.
- Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices across teams.

Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 14+ years of software engineering experience.
- Robust backend development experience in Java.
- Working knowledge of Python for AI/ML integration and experimentation.
- Experience building cloud-based applications on Microsoft Azure or a similar cloud platform.
- Experience working with AI/ML services such as speech recognition, LLMs, or conversational AI.
- Good understanding of REST APIs, distributed systems, and microservices architecture.
- Strong problem-solving and technical leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications
Experience with one or more of the fol

📌 Principal Engineer – AI (Bengaluru)
🏢 Stryker
📍 Bengaluru