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

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

As an Embedded Software Engineer at Bose, you will be developing software to bring our next generation of wearables to life, including Bose’s industry leading Bluetooth noise cancelling headphones, our new line of Audio Sunglasses, and other innovative wearable form factors. You will work collaboratively with a group of world class engineers and user interface designers to engineer our next generation software architecture and deliver astonishing new wearable products to market.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and deploy embedded software for new products that include technologies like Bluetooth, Active Noise Reduction and mobile app interfaces.
• Analyze, quantize and optimize DSP/ML algorithms iteratively on various NPU and DSP hardware subsystems to the best bit-exactness quality.
• Design modular software that is maintainable, scalable and reusable across Bose’s product line.
• Analyze complex 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. Drive end to end software delivery successfully on-time.
• Enhance processes and devops to improve quality and increase efficiency by focusing on continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of demonstrated experience in embedded software development through the full lifecycle (requirements, design, development, test, deployment, operation).
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills
• Proficient C or C++ in an embedded system, including Linux and Android natives.
• Experience with complex embedded software and DSP optimization in a resource limited RTOS based system, such as Qualcomm Hexagon, STMicro, AMLogic, Airoha, BES SoC systems.
• Optimization for MIPS and Memory in multi-threaded, multi-processing DSP-offload systems.
• Experience in quantization for DSP and Tensor-Flow/PyTorch-based NPU subsystems.
• Experience with audio signal pre-/post-processing.
• Experience with common protocols such as I2C, I2S or SPI.
• Experience with Bluetooth or other wireless communication protocols is a plus.
• Experience with embedded security a plus.
• Strong systems level thinker across hardware, software, user experience, etc.
• Knowledge of git and CI/CD tools like Jenkins.

Education:

• BSEE/BSCS/BSCE (MS preferred) with at least 5-10 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 [email protected]