Responsibilities
- Lead the technical architecture for AI-powered voice and speech applications.
- Evaluate and recommend AI models for speech recognition, transcription, translation, summarization, and conversational AI use cases.
- Design and build scalable backend services using Java and Python.
- Integrate Azure AI services, including Azure Voice Live API, Azure 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 involving model selection, performance, latency, scalability, and cost optimization.
- Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices across teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 14+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong 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 with AI/ML services such as speech recognition, LLMs, or conversational AI.
- Understanding of REST APIs, distributed systems, and microservices architecture.
- Strong problem-solving and technical leadership skills.
- Preferred experience with Azure Voice Live API, Azure Speech Services, Azure OpenAI, real-time speech transcription, conversational AI or voice assistants, LLMs, AI model evaluation and selection, Kubernetes, containerized applications, and healthcare or enterprise software development.
Benefits
- Hybrid or onsite work flexibility.
- Approximately 10% travel.
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About Stryker
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