Job Description
About Bose
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.
About The Role
Bose Software Organization is seeking an experienced Manager who can lead and drive our embedded software solutions of consumer electronic products to the next level of performance excellence and evolve the software technology along the products roadmap. This is a position requiring both strong leadership across regions and hands-on technical experience driving towards the best system performance and experience to accommodate foreseeable many years of product roadmap. It requires one to embrace ‘can-do’ attitude and possess business acumen of understanding priorities, cost effectiveness, and significance of on-time deliveries with fast turnaround and well-planned software activities. Hybrid working environment with 3-days/week on-site presence is required for this leadership position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage a system performance and triaging team and drive day-to-day activities of cross-functional engineering teams.
- Manage the resources of your team including hiring, mentoring and driving continuous improvement.
- Utilize deep embedded software experience to drive best-in-class end-to-end software releases and deliverables on-time, driving maintainable, scalable and reusable software design across one or more teams.
- Work with staff and peers to develop short- and long-term plans, managing resourcing, prioritization and schedules.
- Develop deep understanding of underlying SW/HW architecture, analyze and optimize system performance to the best-in-class quality and ensure engineering/test approaches fit in the overall strategy.
- Work collaboratively with software architects, product management, external software teams and cross-functional engineering teams to ensure all teams are in sync and delivering products/features to market on time.
About You
- 15+ years of demonstrated experience in embedded software development through the full lifecycle (requirements, design, development, test, deployment, operation).
- 10+ years in an end-to-end cross-functional technical leadership role.
- Demonstrated success leading high performing teams.
- Experience driving a test-driven development process on engineering teams.
- Experience in analyzing and optimizing system performance end-to-end in a structural manner.
- Experience in leading system triaging effort and driving to resolution across functions in a structural manner.
- Ability to lead teams and delegate appropriately.
- Works collaboratively with other managers and teams to identify and solve problems.
- Experience with C or C++ in an embedded system, including Linux and Android natives.
- Experience with complex embedded software in a resource limited RTOS based system.
- Experience with Bluetooth or other wireless communication protocols is a plus.
- Experience with Audio processing a plus.
- Experience with embedded security a plus.
- Strong systems level thinker across hardware, software, user experience, etc.
- Has led a team delivering firmware for at least one product successfully launched into mass production.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- BSEE/BSCS/BSCE (MS preferred) with at least 10 years related work experience.
Bose is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. 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. For additional information, please review: (1) the EEO is the Law Poster (http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf); and (2) its Supplements (http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm). Please note, the company's pay transparency is available at http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/pdf/EO13665_PrescribedNondiscriminationPostingLanguage_JRFQA508c.pdf. Bose is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the application or employment process, please send an e-mail to Wellbeing@bose.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
