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

Software Architect - Automotive

The Automotive Software Group is seeking a software architect to join our fast-paced engineering team. Do you thrive on building high-performance, integrated software-hardware systems to create amazing experiences for customers? Have you proven, time and time again, how getting the software and system architecture correct makes projects easier, quicker, and more flexible?

Do you come to work each day looking forward to collaborating -- in-person and globally - with smart engineering colleagues to deliver great products? If so, we want you as our software architect.

Job Responsibilities Drive the development of personalized solution proposals for clients' specific needs by actively collaborating with both customers and engineering teams. Cultivating enduring relationships based on trust, while leveraging expertise in software architecture and forward-thinking technology to align with industry trends and software vision. Provides technical software architecture and design guidelines, works closely with peers on design strategies and leads technical discussions relative to future architect direction across multiple teams or complex product line. Responsible for requirements analysis, system architecture design and implementation, and main responsibility for aligning Bose SW Vision with customer architecture. Work with customers understand vehicle architecture and customers' needs, analyze and propose a solution enabling seamless deployment & integration of Bose features. Engage with customer to shape the final architecture to align with Bose reference designs. Work with systems engineers and customer teams to turn software requirements into software architectures that are flexible, scalable, testable, and high-performance. Work with the platforming team to ensure future software and hardware platforms include correct and well-documented software architecture; review and suggest improvements to architectures proposed by contracted and platforming project teams. Take a lead role in technical solution definition during RFI/RFQ phases, estimate complexity and engineering cost for considered options, work closely with Customer and Sales team to identify the best solution. Review business context for solutions to company challenges; define the vision and requirements for the solution, recommend potential options, (which may include RFIs, RFPs or prototype development), identify the most optimal option, and the development of a roadmap for the selected solution. Verify features' processing needs to accommodate required feature set in solution. tailored to hardware and 3rd party software specification. Schedule and participate in reviews of software designs and code changes for a specific, assigned portion of the overall applications and integrations code base; providing direction and recommendations to developers as needed. Analyze feature requests and requirements for audio processing and management, and drive system and software requirements. Prototype latest concepts in electronics systems and deploy concepts to identified projects and variants including using AUTOSAR standards. Develops coding c