Embedded Sofware Engineer (Consumer Audio)

Bose - Framingham, MA

Full-time - Mid Level

Framingham, MA

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About the position

At Bose, we engineer high-quality products that astonish. We do it by obsessing over the details that make outstanding user experiences and high-performance technologies. As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Bose, you will be developing real-time audio/DSP software to bring our next generation of products to life. You will work collaboratively with a group of extraordinary engineers to design and implement audio software that puts the wow into our products. The engineering team at Bose is a thriving, passionate, deeply skilled team of professionals from a broad range of disciplines and experiences, who share a common goal—to create products that provide transformative sound experiences. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and debugging embedded platform software on a variety of target processors for new platforms/products that include technologies like Bluetooth, Active Noise Reduction, and Mobile Applications. You will also design modular software that is maintainable, scalable, and reusable across Bose's product lines. Analyzing sophisticated technical problems and proposing comprehensive solutions will be a key part of your responsibilities. You will contribute to all phases of the product software lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, automated testing, release, support, and documentation. Additionally, you will enhance processes and DevOps to improve quality and increase efficiency by focusing on continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and debug embedded platform software on a variety of target processors for new platforms/products that include technologies like Bluetooth, Active Noise Reduction, and Mobile Applications.
• Design modular software that is maintainable, scalable, and reusable across Bose's product lines.
• Analyze sophisticated technical problems and propose design of comprehensive solutions.
• Contribute to all phases of the product software lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, automated test, release, support, and documentation.
• Enhance processes and DevOps to improve quality and increase efficiency by focusing on continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Experience with C/C++ in an embedded environment.
• Experience with cross-compilation on both Windows and Linux development environments, using make, cmake, or similar compilation systems. Familiarity with conan is a plus.
• Experience developing software for any target, including mobile devices, Linux or embedded platforms.
• Experience writing unit-tests using a relevant test framework such as cpp-unit, catch2, or GTest.
• Experience implementing, writing, and debugging multi-threaded real-time embedded software in a resource-constrained RTOS.
• Experience developing APIs / micro-services.
• Experience with one or more scripting languages such as Python.
• Has delivered firmware for at least one product successfully launched into mass production.
• Experience with common protocols such as I2C, I2S/TDM or SPI.
• Experience performing real-time processing including audio, video, or related data-streams is a plus.
• Experience bringing up and debugging hardware using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, protocol sniffers, etc.
• Experience with Bluetooth and BLE. Familiarity with other wireless communication protocols is a plus.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Proven track record to work on teams. A strong desire to learn from and help others.
• Strong spoken and written communication skills.
• BSEE/BSCS/BSCE/BSSE with a minimum.