Principal Research Architect

Bose is seeking a hands-on research architect to design, build and evaluate experimental hardware and software systems.

About Boseallaboutme

• At Bose Corporation, we believe sound is the most powerful force on earth — and for over 60 years, we have been a company built on innovation, excellence, and independence.
• Privately owned, fiercely customer-focused, and driven by our values, we continue to lead industries and transform lives through sound.
• Today, Bose Corporation is entering an exciting new era.
• Across multiple global Business Units and Global Functions, we are shaping the future of audio technology, automotive, luxury, and premium experiences.
• We invite you to join us in this transformation.
• We are a proudly independent company—driven by purpose, guided by our values, and united by a belief in the power of sound.
• As the world leader in audio experiences, we’re creating what’s next—pushing boundaries and delivering transformative sound experiences for people everywhere.
• Join us and make your next career move a mic-drop.
• Let’s Make Waves. ‎

Responsibilities

• Working in a multidisciplinary research team, you will compare architectural approaches, integrate emerging technologies and use measured results to guide technical decisions.
• We are looking for a builder with a tinkerer’s curiosity who enjoys connecting devices, writing code and investigating unexpected behavior.
• You will work with researchers and prototyping engineers to turn open questions into repeatable experiments and reusable learning.
• Many of the models and algorithms you integrate will come from other Research teams.
• You will use your understanding of ML architectures and processing pipelines to evaluate system implications and provide useful feedback to model developers.
• Your primary responsibility is system architecture and integration; model-development experience is valuable background.
• Design, implement and compare software and system architectures through working prototypes and repeatable experiments.
• Translate research questions into experiment specifications, baseline comparisons, measurable evaluation criteria and failure tests.
• Write and debug critical software components, working directly with devices, sensors and compute platforms.
• Define and test APIs, data models, messaging approaches and interfaces across hardware, models and software services.
• Collaborate with Research teams to integrate ML models and signal-processing capabilities into working systems.
• Evaluate how model inputs, representations and inference requirements affect quality, latency, memory, compute, power and reliability.
• Provide actionable feedback to model developers.
• Compare processing placement, communication and coordination approaches, including behavior when connectivity or components fail.
• Define synchronization, instrumentation and reproducibility requirements with the engineers implementing experiments.
• Evaluate third-party technologies against internal or open alternatives, considering technical fit, integration effort, portability and maintenance.
• Work with security, privacy and platform specialists on trust boundaries, data access and appropriate handling of sensor data.
• Document evidence, architectural decisions and unresolved questions.
• Mentor engineers while remaining actively involved in implementation.

Requirements

• Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience designing, architecting and delivering complex software or systems solutions.
• Proven experience architecting connected-device, embedded, distributed, IoT, robotics, or edge-computing systems, including hands-on integration and evaluation of ML models and an understanding of how model architecture affects system behavior.
• Hands-on software development and prototyping experience, with the ability to build, debug and evaluate experimental systems.
• Experience with Python or comparable tools used in ML and systems research is valuable.
• Practical experience developing software on Linux-based and/or embedded platforms.
• Deep understanding of networking, APIs, messaging systems, event-driven architectures and software integration patterns.
• Experience debugging and measuring behavior across hardware, software and communication boundaries.
• Practical understanding of ML processing pipelines, including input preparation, representations and inference, sufficient to discuss trade-offs with model developers.
• Demonstrated ability to compare implementations, interpret measurements and revise architectural decisions based on evidence.
• Strong technical communication and collaboration skills, with curiosity and initiative as requirements evolve through experiments.
• Experience designing or integrating audio or multimedia systems, with an understanding of streaming pipelines, timing, synchronization and latency.

Preferred

• Qualifications Master’s degree or higher in a related engineering or computer science discipline.
• Prior experience developing or training ML models, providing practical insight into model-design trade-offs.
• Experience deploying or optimizing inference on resource-constrained hardware.
• Experience with MQTT, ROS 2, Bluetooth/BLE, device discovery or comparable communication frameworks.
• Background in robotics, connected products, wearables, automotive systems, industrial automation, sensing or audio.
• Experience experimenting with agentic development tools or building agent workflows, with an understanding of tool integration, execution boundaries, testing and human oversight.
• Experience guiding research or advanced-development work and turning experimental findings into reusable engineering approaches.
• At Bose, you're inspired to be and do your best and are rewarded for your unique talents!

Pay

• Our compensation is thoughtfully tailored to your skills, experience, education, and location, and goes beyond base salary.
• The hiring range for this position in the primary work location of Framingham, Massachusetts is: $168,300-$231,450.The hiring range for other Bose work locations may vary.

Benefits

• In addition to competitive base pay we offer rewards including bonus programs, comprehensive health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, plus exclusive perks designed to support your wellbeing, and a generous employee discount where you can immerse yourself in our products and experiences.