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

About Bose 

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.

About The Job

Bose Software Organization is seeking an experienced Manager who can lead and drive our embedded software solutions of consumer electronic products to the next level of excellence and evolve the software technology along the products roadmap. This is a position requiring both strong leadership across regions and hands-on technical experience driving consistent embedded software to accommodate foreseeable many years of product roadmap. It requires one to embrace ‘can-do’ attitude and possess business acumen of understanding priorities, cost effectiveness, and significance of on-time deliveries with fast turnaround and well-planned software activities. Hybrid working environment, 3-days/week on-site presence is required for this leadership position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of embedded software technical leaders and drive day-to-day activities of cross-functional engineering teams.
• Manage the resources of your team including hiring, mentoring and driving continuous improvement.
• Utilize deep embedded software experience to drive best-in-class end-to-end software releases and deliverables on-time, driving maintainable, scalable and reusable software design across one or more teams.
• Work with staff and peers to develop short and long term plans, managing resourcing, prioritization and schedules.
• Develop deep understanding of underlying SW/HW architecture and system and ensure engineering/test approaches fit in the overall strategy.
• Work collaboratively with software architects, product management, external software teams and cross-functional engineering teams to ensure all teams are in sync and delivering products/features to market on time.

About You

• 15+ years of demonstrated experience in embedded software development through the full lifecycle (requirements, design, development, test, deployment, operation).
• 10+ years in an end-to-end cross-functional technical leadership role.   Defined design requirements and proper cost estimate.  Delivered best-in-class KPIs with recurring comparative analysis.  Delivered mass volume products and solutions meeting KPIs and quality milestones on time repetitively within cost structure.
• 5+ years of managerial experience.  Demonstrated success of building, leading and nurturing high performing teams of 10+.   Set goals and objectives aligned with organizational direction.  Fostered a team spirit of never give-up culture, encouraged innovation and not afraid of going above and beyond in raising the bar continually for delivering high-quality products efficiently.
• Led teams in synergy and built leadership with effective and streamlined communications up and down, within organization, across disciplines and across regions.  
• Experience driving a test driven development process on engineering teams.
• Ability to lead teams and delegate appropriately.
• Works collaboratively with other managers and teams to identify and solve problems.
• Experience with C or C++ in an embedded system, including Linux and Android natives.
• Experience with complex embedded software in a resource limited RTOS based system.
• Experience with Bluetooth or other wireless communication protocols is a plus.
• Experience with Audio processing a plus.
• Experience with embedded security a plus.
• Strong systems level thinker across hardware, software, user experience, etc.
• Has led a team delivering firmware for at least one product successfully launched into mass production.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Education

BSEE/BSCS/BSCE (MS preferred) with at least 10 years related work experience.

“Our goal is to create an atmosphere where every candidate feels supported and empowered in the interviewing process. Diversity and inclusion are integral to our success, and we believe that providing reasonable accommodation is not only a legal obligation but also a fundamental aspect of our commitment to being an employer of choice. We recognize that individuals may have different needs and requirements based on their abilities, and we provide reasonable accommodations to ensure ideal conditions are met during the application process. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation, please send a note to wellbeing@bose.com”

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Our goal is to create an atmosphere where every candidate feels supported and empowered in the interviewing process. Diversity and inclusion are integral to our success, and we believe that providing reasonable accommodation is not only a legal obligation but also a fundamental aspect of our commitment to being an employer of choice. We recognize that individuals may have different needs and requirements based on their abilities, and we provide reasonable accommodations to ensure ideal conditions are met during the application process.

If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation, please send a note to wellbeing@bose.com