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.

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.

Job Description

Sr. Software Engineer, Out Loud Audio

At Bose, we've spent over 50 years finding new ways to bring quality audio and simplicity to people -- in their home, on the go, or wherever music is enjoyed. The Out Loud Audio product team is passionate about bringing these values to wherever you listen to music or watch TV. We want to be there providing a premium polished experience, with awesome sound!

Out Loud Smart product build and interact with a sophisticated ecosystem of products. Bose products can form multi-room groups, transmit and receive audio over Bluetooth, interact with your TV, streaming players, voice assistants, and home automation equipment. Pulling all these pieces together is a big challenge. It takes a combination of deep technical knowledge and broad system thinking. The payoff is a powerful system that appears simple and inviting to all persons.

Are you ready to jump in and make every home theater, tailgate, or casual listening experience the best? The right candidate is obsessed with the fine details that make a flawless experience, with astonishing lifelike sound, for our customers and is committed to motivating an interdisciplinary team to bring the newest technology.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Deliver an infectious desire for test driven development and continuous integration


• Contribute to a hard-working and versatile team of software engineers to bring new products and compelling experiences to market.


• . Communicate sophisticated concepts including software architecture and sequence interactions to technical and non-technical peers.


• Develop phased software release plan for integration of products and features. Co-develop release plan with the software quality team.


• Work collaboratively across teams to implement software delivery plans that span cloud, mobile, and embedded.


• Strong communication skills and a dedication to documentation in wiki format

Technical Skills:

• Experience designing complex embedded software systems in an existing architecture, including open source and 3rd party library integration and design for reuse.


• Experience with Linux application using modern object-oriented and functional concepts (lambdas, templates, and generic programming) in C++ '11/ '14


• Familiar with concepts surrounding digital audio including sample rate conversion, distributed time synchronization, ALSA, and multi-channel audio decoders, WiFi.


• Experience with multi-threading, network sockets, and operating system concepts


• Experience with source code management (SCM) tools (Git, Confluence, Jira, Conan, Jenkins, etc.)

Nice to Have:

• Experience with consumer facing products that interact with mobile or cloud infrastructure


• Experience designing C++ code within an embedded Linux environment


• Experience with Fluoride Bluetooth stack, HDMI, or DSP algorithms


• Experience with Python


• Experience with web sockets, google protocol buffers, JSON

Education & Experience :

BSEE/BSCS/BSCE (MSCS preferred)

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