Sr. Director, Architect - Research Franchises

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Today, Bose Corporation is entering an exciting new era. Across multiple global Business Units and Global Functions, we are shaping the future of audio technology, automotive, luxury, and premium experiences. We invite you to join us in this transformation.

Job Description

The Sr. Director, Architect - Research Franchises is a senior technical leadership role responsible for defining and maintaining the long-term scientific and systems architecture of Bose Research capability franchises.

Bose Research is transforming its franchise-based models toward the durable capability domains of perceptual intelligence, environmental sensing, distributed edge orchestration, and trusted intelligent systems. These domains are expected to serve as the long-term scientific engines that power Bose's future discoveries, technologies, platforms, and businesses.

Within this model, the Franchise Architect ensures that each franchise maintains a coherent scientific direction, durable research agenda, and strong architectural alignment with Bose's long-term Smart Edge technology strategy.

This role sits at the intersection of advanced research, systems architecture, and enterprise strategy, partnering closely with Research leadership, Corporate Strategy, and the Bose-X team to ensure that long-horizon scientific work produces enduring capability platforms and disciplined innovation pathways.

This role is responsible for:

• defining the 10-year science arcs for the franchises
• ensuring technical coherence across research programs
• guiding the development of foundational IP, models, and datasets
• connecting research breakthroughs to scalable technology platforms

This role requires a deep systems thinker capable of operating across disciplines such as AI/ML, sensing, acoustics, signal processing, edge computing, and human-centered systems design.

Key Responsibilities

Franchise Scientific Direction

• Define and maintain the long-term scientific vision and architecture for the Bose Research capability franchises.
• Establish and evolve the franchises' 10-year science arcs, ensuring that research efforts build durable, defensible capability layers rather than isolated technical breakthroughs.
• Guide the development of foundational research assets, including models, datasets, evaluation frameworks, and reference implementations.
• Ensure scientific depth and intellectual integrity while maintaining alignment with the company's long-term technology strategy.

Program Architecture & Technical Governance

• Work with program leaders and the Program Portfolio team to ensure research programs align with franchise science arcs and technical priorities.
• Provide technical oversight on new program charters to ensure architectural coherence and avoid duplication across research areas.
• Guide the development of deployable primitives and technical frameworks that can scale into platforms and products.
• Serve as the technical authority for major architectural decisions affecting franchise direction.

Cross-Franchise Systems Coherence

• Collaborate with Franchise Leads to ensure coherence across domains such as perception, sensing, orchestration, and trusted intelligent systems.
• Identify and develop shared system architectures that enable cross-domain capabilities across devices, environments, and networks.
• Prevent fragmentation of research efforts by maintaining architectural alignment across the lab.

Research to Platform Translation

• Partner with Bose-X and internal engineering teams to ensure that foundational research work can evolve into scalable technology platforms and reusable capability layers.
• Help translate scientific advances into deployable primitives, platform modules, and long-term technology building blocks.
• Support the identification of research breakthroughs that may lead to:
• product innovation
• platform capabilities
• licensable intellectual property
• future venture opportunities

External Scientific Leadership

• Represent Bose in collaborations with universities, national labs, research institutes, and advanced technology partners.
• Contribute to shaping Bose's reputation as a leader in long-horizon research and systems innovation.
• Maintain awareness of emerging technical developments that may affect franchise direction.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in advanced research, systems architecture, or deep technology development in domains such as AI/ML, sensing systems, signal processing, distributed systems, or human-centered computing.
• Demonstrated ability to define and guide long-term technical research agendas.
• Strong systems thinking capabilities and experience working across multiple technical disciplines.
• Experience guiding research teams toward foundational intellectual property and scalable capability development.
• Track record of influencing technical direction across research, engineering, and strategy stakeholders.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to executive leadership.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, discovery-driven environments focused on long-term innovation.
• Experience collaborating with academic institutions, research labs, or advanced technology ecosystems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in leading research organizations such as corporate research labs, advanced technology groups, national labs, or frontier technology startups.
• Background in systems architecture for intelligent devices, edge computing, sensing systems, or AI platforms.
• Experience contributing to foundational technologies that evolved into scalable products or platforms.
• Advanced degree (PhD or equivalent experience) in engineering, computer science, applied science, or related fields.
• Strong external research network across academia or advanced technology ecosystems.

At Bose, you're inspired to be and do your best and are rewarded for your unique talents! Our compensation is thoughtfully tailored to your skills, experience, education, and location, and goes beyond base salary. The hiring range for this position in the primary work location of Framingham, Massachusetts is: $271,100-$372,800.The hiring range for other Bose work locations may vary.

In addition to competitive base pay we offer rewards including bonus programs, comprehensive health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, plus exclusive perks designed to support your wellbeing, and a generous employee discount where you can immerse yourself in our products and experiences. We are a proudly independent company-driven by purpose, guided by our values, and united by a belief in the power of sound. As the world leader in audio experiences, we're creating what's next-pushing boundaries and delivering transformative sound experiences for people everywhere. Join us and make your next career move a mic-drop. Let's Make Waves.