You know the moment. It’s the first notes of that song you love, the intro to your favorite movie, or simply the sound of someone you love saying “hello.” It’s in these moments that sound matters most. 

At Bose, we believe sound is the most powerful force on earth. We’ve dedicated ourselves to improving it for nearly 60 years. And we’re passionate down to our bones about making whatever you’re listening to a little more magical. 

The Engineering team at Bose is a thriving, passionate, deeply skilled team of professionals from a broad range of disciplines and experiences, who share a common goal—to create products that provide transformative sound experiences.

Job Description

Job Description

As the Senior Product Architect for the Luxury Team, you will lead a team of senior and principal software and hardware system engineers in translating product and user experience needs into detailed system and sub-system requirements, specifications, and architecture. You will drive the overall technical strategy in collaboration with cross-functional hardware and software development leaders.

In this role, you will be at the forefront of making strategic trade-offs across competing business requirements, customer needs, and technical solutions to deliver market-leading, high-end audio products. You will work closely with talented engineering leaders to foster a culture that values innovation, world-class engineering, and exceptional customer experiences.

Additionally, you will play a key role in building the team of technical leaders for the new Luxury portfolio and will be accountable for the technical performance and integrity of these best-in-class products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Set the overall standard for Luxury Product Engineering orchestrating the delivery of products and major SW features.
• Build a team of Product engineers in support of Luxury Audio business.
• Provide critical thinking and problem-solving oversight.
• Blocking-and-tackling, as needed, to enable development team success. 
• Remove roadblocks, escalate and resolve blocking of non-project/program issues across the business.
• Work closely with other functional directors & managers to staff and support the active, prioritized Product and SW Experience portfolio.
• Stakeholder for System Design Review process and accountable for quality of deliverables to SDR.
• Identify, lead, and/or participate in process and work improvement charters and efforts.
• Change agent, driven to continuously improve our ability to deliver world class experiences for our customers.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience developing HW (Electro, Mechanical, Acoustical Products) + SW (Embedded, Firmware, Low-Level SW) products, preferably in consumer electronics or similar product segment
• Experience translating user and business needs & requirements into system specifications and architectural approaches
• BS in Engineering discipline required, MS preferred

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience developing embedded SW as well as physical products, preferably in consumer electronics or similar product segment
• Demonstrated understanding and application of Classic Systems/Product Engineering fundamentals to architect and deliver complex HW+SW systems
• Demonstrated ability to deconstruct complex and/or loosely-bounded problems, both technical and organizational/procedural, into solvable components or structure
• Experience managing teams to a budget, as well as a thorough understanding of new product business plans and financial analyses. Business acumen strongly desired

Bose is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. The EEOC’s “Know Your Rights: Workplace discrimination is illegal” Poster is available here: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf. Bose is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to applicant_disability_accommodationrequest@bose.com. Please include "Application Accommodation Request" in the subject of the email.

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