Principal Research Architect
Bose Corporation2 days ago
Framingham, MA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$168k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- 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 software components while working with devices, sensors, and compute platforms.
- Define and test APIs, data models, messaging approaches, and interfaces across hardware, models, and software services.
- Integrate ML models and signal-processing capabilities into working systems and provide feedback to model developers.
- Evaluate model and system trade-offs involving quality, latency, memory, compute, power, reliability, synchronization, and connectivity failures.
- Evaluate third-party technologies against internal or open alternatives for technical fit, integration effort, portability, and maintenance.
- Define instrumentation and reproducibility requirements, document evidence and architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while implementing systems.
Requirements
- 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.
- Experience architecting connected-device, embedded, distributed, IoT, robotics, or edge-computing systems, including hands-on ML-model integration and evaluation.
- Hands-on software development and prototyping experience, including the ability to build, debug, and evaluate experimental systems.
- Practical experience developing software on Linux-based 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.
- Understanding of ML processing pipelines and model-system trade-offs, plus the ability to compare implementations and revise architecture based on evidence.
- Experience designing or integrating audio or multimedia systems, including streaming pipelines, timing, synchronization, and latency.
- Strong technical communication and collaboration skills, with curiosity and initiative as experiments evolve.
- Preferred qualifications include a related master’s degree or higher, ML model-development or training experience, inference optimization on resource-constrained hardware, and experience with MQTT, ROS 2, Bluetooth/BLE, or device discovery.
- Preferred backgrounds include robotics, connected products, wearables, automotive systems, industrial automation, sensing, or audio, along with experience guiding research or advanced-development work and experimenting with agentic development tools or workflows.
Benefits
- Hiring range for the primary Framingham, Massachusetts work location is $168,300-$231,450; ranges may vary by work location.
- Bonus programs, comprehensive health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, exclusive wellbeing perks, and a generous employee discount.
- The role is based in the primary work location of Framingham, Massachusetts; the posting does not specify a remote or hybrid arrangement.
About Bose Corporation
Bose Corporation builds consumer speakers, soundbars, and noise‑cancelling headphones; professional and aviation headsets; and OEM automotive audio systems. It sells direct online and in retail, and supplies audio technology to carmakers through manufacturing partners. Founded in 1964 and privately held, Bose is headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts, and operates globally across home, portable, automotive, and enterprise audio markets.