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
At Bose, we engineer high quality products that astonish. We do it by obsessing over the details that make outstanding user experiences and high-performance technologies. If you are an Embedded Software Engineer with a passion for audio and portable devices, we want you to join our Consumer Electronics Software Engineering Team.

About The Role

As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Bose, you will be developing real-time audio/DSP software to bring our next generation of products to life. You will work collaboratively with a group of extraordinary engineers to design and implement audio software that puts the wow into our products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and debug embedded platform software on a variety of target processors for new platforms/products that include technologies like Bluetooth, Active Noise Reduction, and Mobile Applications.
• Design modular software that is maintainable, scalable, and reusable across Bose’s product lines
• Analyze sophisticated technical problems and propose design of comprehensive solutions.
• Contribute to all phases of the product software lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, automated test, release, support, and documentation.
• Enhance processes and DevOps to improve quality and increase efficiency by focusing on continuous improvement.

About You

• Experience with C/C++ in an embedded environment
• Experience with cross-compilation on both windows and linux development environments, using make, cmake, or similar compilation systems.  Familiarity with conan a plus.
• Experience developing software for any target, including mobile devices, linux or embedded platforms
• Experience writing unit-tests using a relevant test framework such as cpp-unit, catch2, or GTest.
• Experience implementing writing and debugging multi-threaded real-time embedded software in a resource constrained RTOS.
• Experience developing API’s / micro-services.
• Experience with one or more scripting languages such as python.
• Experience developing software for any target, including mobile devices, linux or embedded platforms
• Has delivered firmware for at least one product successfully launched into mass production.
• Experience with common protocols such as I2C, I2S/TDM or SPI
• Experience performing real-time processing including audio, video, or related data-streams is a plus
• Experience bringing up and debugging hardware using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, protocol sniffers etc.
• Experience with Bluetooth and BLE. Familiarity with other wireless communication protocols is a plus.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills
• Proven track record to work on teams. A strong desire to learn from and help others.
• Strong spoken and written communication skills
• BSEE/BSCS/BSCE/BSSE with a minimum

Bose is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. 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. For additional information, please review: (1) the EEO is the Law Poster (http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf); and (2) its Supplements (http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm). Please note, the company's pay transparency is available at http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/pdf/EO13665_PrescribedNondiscriminationPostingLanguage_JRFQA508c.pdf. Bose is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the application or employment process, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

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 [email protected]