Senior Research Prototyping Engineer
Bose Corporation2 days ago
Framingham, MA, USASenior
Base Salary
$149k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain prototype systems using connected devices, sensors, audio endpoints, and compute platforms.
- Develop software adapters, gateways, and interfaces across IP networks, Bluetooth/BLE, USB, serial, and other device protocols.
- Integrate research-developed and third-party ML models into inference runtimes and working applications or device pipelines.
- Collaborate with model developers to understand interfaces, dependencies, and operating limits.
- Diagnose integration problems and provide measured feedback to research teams and the research architect.
- Implement and compare alternative services, messaging, coordination, and runtime approaches under comparable test conditions.
- Measure latency, throughput, synchronization, memory, compute utilization, reliability, and recovery behavior.
- Build automated tests, scenario replay, and fault injection capabilities for repeatable experiments.
- Develop diagnostic tools and displays that make system behavior and experiment outcomes inspectable.
- Maintain versioned models, dependencies, configurations, device images, provisioning workflows, and build documentation.
- Configure and use AI agents for development, testing, and engineering tasks while reviewing and verifying their outputs.
- Apply approved data-handling, filtering, redaction, privacy, and secure device-integration practices.
- Troubleshoot across hardware, software, operating systems, networks, and device communication layers.
- Integrate audio or multimedia devices and software, including capture, playback, streaming, timing, and synchronization debugging.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 8 years of experience in software engineering, prototyping, embedded systems, IoT, robotics, or connected-device development.
- Strong software development skills in Python and experience with C or C++.
- Experience integrating hardware and software in Linux-based environments, including development boards, sensors, embedded devices, or hardware bring-up.
- Hands-on experience integrating and running ML models in connected-device, embedded, robotics, or edge-computing systems.
- Practical understanding of preprocessing, model inference, runtime dependencies, networking, device communications, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Experience configuring and using AI agents for engineering workflows, including connecting tools, supplying project context, running multi-step tasks, and reviewing results.
- Experience measuring system behavior and developing automated tests, validation tools, and troubleshooting methods.
- Disciplined use of version control, configuration management, documentation, and reproducible development practices.
- Strong problem-solving, collaboration, initiative, and iterative investigation skills.
- Preferred experience with inference frameworks, model conversion, hardware acceleration, resource-constrained deployment, or ML model adaptation and optimization.
- Preferred experience with MQTT, Bluetooth/BLE, ROS 2, device discovery, or comparable communication frameworks.
- Preferred background in robotics, connected products, wearables, audio, automotive systems, or industrial automation.
- Preferred familiarity with Docker, hardware-in-the-loop testing, diagnostics, or observability tools.
- Preferred understanding of secure device integration and data privacy practices.
- A master’s degree in a related engineering or computer science discipline is preferred.
- Model training experience is helpful but not required.
Benefits
- Hiring range is $149,000-$204,950 for the primary work location in Framingham, Massachusetts; ranges may vary by Bose work location.
- Bonus programs, comprehensive health and welfare benefits, and a 401(k) plan are offered.
- Additional exclusive wellbeing perks and a generous employee discount are available.
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.