Bose
Research Program Leader
US, MA - Framingham
Sponsorship not specified$12k-$36kDetected 1 day ago
Distributed SystemsMachine LearningRoboticsSignal ProcessingResearchLeadershipCommunication
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About the role
- Today, Bose Corporation is entering an exciting new era.
- We invite you to join us in this transformation.
- Job Description Research Program Leader Role Summary Research Program Leaders are senior scientific and technical leaders, responsible for the long-term direction, health, and output of one of Bose's core research portfolios.
Responsibilities
- Team Building and Attracting Talent
- Build a high-performing team culture that combines scientific depth, systems thinking, disciplined exploration, and practical translation.
- Mentor senior technical contributors, help identify future program leads, and create an environment where top researchers want to do their best work.
- Develop external academic and advanced technology partnerships to strengthen Bose's access to frontier ideas and talent.
- Partner with the peer Research Leads to align work across perception, sensing, orchestration, trust, rendering, and efficient edge deployment.
- Partner with strategy, engineering, and business stakeholders to map research outputs into products, platform modules, middleware, licensable IP, strategic pilots, and venture opportunities.
- Partner with Commercialization team to define technology deployment paths through consumer products, engineered systems, software/middleware, and foundational IP.
- Represent Bose in collaborations with universities, research institutes, national labs, standards groups, and advanced technology partners relevant to the franchise domain.
- Maintain awareness of emerging technical, ecosystem, and policy developments that may affect research direction or timing.
- These programs will build on Bose's foundation in sound and audio and extend them toward systems at the intelligent edge.
Requirements
- Track record of translating research into platform capabilities, deployable technology, foundational IP, or durable technical assets.
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence research, engineering, strategy, product, and executive stakeholders.
- Experience collaborating with academic institutions, research labs, or advanced technology ecosystems.
- 12+ years of experience in advanced research, applied science, or deep technology development in one or more relevant domains such as computational perception, auditory neuroscience, AI/ML, sensing systems, signal processing, robotics, distributed systems, privacy/security, trustworthy AI, or edge computing.
- Demonstrated ability to define and lead long-term technical or scientific agendas under uncertainty.
- Demonstrated record of attracting, building, or leading high-caliber research teams, labs, or multidisciplinary technical groups.
- Strong systems thinking capabilities and comfort operating across multiple technical disciplines and abstraction layers.
Nice to have
- Experience working in leading research organizations such as corporate research labs, advanced technology groups, national labs, frontier technology startups, or top-tier academic labs.
- Recognized thought leadership in a domain relevant to one of the four Bose Research franchises, demonstrated through scientific impact, patents, open-source contributions, standards activity, or other field-shaping work.
- Experience leading work that starts in audio, acoustics, or human perception and expands into broader intelligent systems, multimodal environments, or edge platforms.
- Experience with low-power edge deployment, resource-constrained inference, distributed systems, or privacy-first adaptive systems.
- Advanced degree (PhD or equivalent experience) in engineering, computer science, applied science, neuroscience, or a related field.
- Strong external research and recruiting network across academia or advanced technology ecosystems.
- Early Measures of Success
- launch multiple projects so the research program reflects the intended science thesis
Compensation
- Our compensation is thoughtfully tailored to your skills, experience, education, and location, and goes beyond base salary.
Benefits
- Research Program Leaders are senior scientific and technical leaders, responsible for the long-term direction, health, and output of one of Bose's core research portfolios.
- Research Vision and Scientific Leadership
- Define and maintain the long-term scientific vision, mission, and driving research questions for their research program
- Work with the Program Portfolio function in corporate strategy to launch, review, redirect, or stop programs based on scientific learning, platform leverage, and strategic fit.
Company info
- At Bose Corporation, we believe sound is the most powerful force on earth - and for over 60 years, we have been a company built on innovation, excellence, and independence.
- Privately owned, fiercely customer-focused, and driven by our values, we continue to lead industries and transform lives through sound.
- Across multiple global Business Units and Global Functions, we are shaping the future of audio technology, automotive, luxury, and premium experiences.
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