Senior Audio Embedded Software Engineer

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

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 performing real-time processing including audio, video, or related data-streams.
• Experience with cross-compilation on both windows and linux development environments, using make, cmake, or similar compilation systems.  Familiarity with conan a plus.
• 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 a RTOS based system.
• 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 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

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 [email protected]. Please include "Application Accommodation Request" in the subject of the email.

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.