Senior Acoustics Engineer - Bose Labs at Bose in Framingham, MA

Job description

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. Job Description Bose Labs is seeking a Senior Acoustic Engineer to help lead efforts that establish and enhance physical reference designs for a variety of wearable applications including audio, noise cancellation and voice related experiences. In this role, your work will regularly span across multiple projects with a variety of both near-term and long-term goals and deliverables. Projects and activities will require a range of contributions including leadership of small, multi-disciplinary project teams, individual contributions for acoustic modeling and data analysis, laboratory measurements, proposing and defining new technology advancement projects, and operating as a technical mentor for teammates. This position sits at the intersection of research and product development. You will use your creativity and innovation skills to translate foundational technologies and technical instances into practical, scalable engineering solutions that can be used as the basis for licensable technologies that support a wide range of wearable products as well as Bose-branded products development. The successful candidate will be comfortable working within a small cross functional team on several simultaneous parallel projects with the ability to use analytical, empirical and hands-on methods to quickly work through ambiguous problem spaces. Responsibilities : Lead cross functional engineering project teams to invent, porotype and prove new or improved technologies for new wearable devices and customer experiences Contribute to the definition of documentation standards for existing as well as new, novel mechanical/acoustical reference designs to accelerate development and licensable technology adoption Create simulation models and tools to predict acoustical system behavior and to enable future development teams to quickly evaluate alternate permutations Design and execute acoustical experiments to verify / supplement simulation results Conduct acoustical measurements of transducer components, subsystems and full concept assemblies with associated data analysis and synthesis of conclusions Establish new measurement and/or design techniques or processes to accelerate the adoption and scaling of new capabilities Collaborate with engineers from mechanical, DSP, electrical and software domains to deliver end-to-end reference designs and ensure tradeoffs and dependencies are accounted for Anticipate and identify important system level tradeoffs, risks, guardrails and dependencies for product development teams to consider in future product decisions Present concepts, experimental results, recommendations and technical risks through peer reviews, design reviews, written documentation, and stakeholder demonstrations Ensure collaboration across research, product development and business unit organizations to ensure alignment for deliverables Contribute to proposing and championing new technology opportunities for further wearable product advancements Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s or PhD strongly preferred in Acoustical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline 10+ years of relevant professional experience in acoustical engineering including direct design, analysis and test experience of high performance audio products Expert technical problem solver with the ability to identify, scope out, plan and lead cross functiona