Principal Software Architect, Audio Systems

6 days ago


Framingham, Massachusetts, United States Bose Full time

About the Role

The Bose Software Organization (BSO) team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Software Architect to join our dynamic team in the automotive industry. As a Software Architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technological landscape of our products, ensuring they meet the highest standards of innovation, performance, and customer satisfaction.

This position requires an individual with a blend of deep technical expertise, exceptional customer engagement abilities, and strong leadership skills to foster collaboration across functions and drive successful outcomes for our customers and Bose.

Key Responsibilities

  • Propose, define, design, and implement Bose automotive software architecture and platforms which provide the abstraction layers that enable us to deliver Bose unique audio experiences in various hardware and software environments.
  • Communicate with technical credibility, presenting Bose's software platform solutions effectively to targeted OEMs. Influence their technical decisions by showcasing win-win scenarios and reducing OEM's audio software integration complexity.
  • Understand and communicate OEM's software-defined vehicle roadmap and help align Bose's automotive software architecture and platform direction to service the market.
  • Act as the software and audio signal processing technical expert, understand OEM's specific needs and challenges, and provide solutions to address OEM's development pain points and risks. Collaborate closely with the sales and business development teams to ensure alignment with customer expectations.
  • Lead technical demonstrations of Bose platform offerings to attract and convince customers during the presale process.
  • Be an influential leader who works cross-functionally to represent Bose's technical capabilities, particularly in software, to our OEM customers.
  • Leverage Bose's full software capability, including consumer product software, mobile apps, and cloud services, to bring additional value to the vehicle and our customers.
  • Stay abreast of the latest advancements in automotive audio software technologies, evaluating their relevance and potential integration into our products.

About You

  • Deep knowledge in signal processing software architecture and frameworks for proprietary algorithms to run on complex multi-core car domain-controller/head-unit/amplifiers, including DSPs, SoC, CPU, and micro-controllers.
  • Hands-on knowledge with automotive processor architectures, such as Qualcomm snapdragon SoC, Analog Devices DSPs.
  • Strong software development skills and knowledge/experience in software engineering best practices (i.e. OOD, modularity, extensibility, reusability and maintainability).
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to understand customer requirements, produce clear and concise technical documentation.
  • Self-motivated and able to work independently to support multiple long-term partners.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex technical challenges to deliver optimal solutions.
  • BS in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering with Audio and/or Software focus.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Project management skills for planning, timing, executing, and reporting.
  • Automotive industry experience.
  • MS in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering with Audio and/or Software focus.


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