Bose Corporation is looking for a Product Manager to lead our Android platform software team and own Bose’s Android audio platform. This is a hands-on, platform leadership role at the intersection of Android platform capabilities, advanced audio systems, and long-term business strategy for our Technology Licensing team.
What You'll Do
- Lead the Android platform software team as Product Owner for a persistent Agile team.
- Own roadmap, backlog prioritization, and delivery sequencing across Android platform milestones.
- Define core platform capabilities versus OEM-specific extensions, ensuring scalability across partners.
- Ensure foundational audio pipeline bring-up precedes optimization, spatial feature layering, and UX refinement.
- Own integration into Android system audio, including AudioFlinger, audio effects frameworks, and Audio HAL using AIDL-based interfaces.
- Manage Android version dependencies across AOSP, OEM forks, and Android CDD requirements.
- Guide architectural decisions across ARM processing, Qualcomm Hexagon DSP, and MediaTek audio DSP targets.
- Understand trade-offs between framework changes, vendor hooks, and application-layer solutions in modern Android.
- Own product definition for spatial audio, binaural rendering, HRTFs, and device-specific acoustic tuning algorithms.
- Support internal and external tuning engineers with clear configuration surfaces, constraints, and validation expectations.
- Reason end-to-end about latency budgets, buffering, synchronization, clock drift, and power consumption.
- Ensure system-level audio UX remains coherent across use cases including media, voice, and immersive playback.
- Understand Bluetooth audio pipelines, including LE Audio, LC3, Auracast, and Fast Pair.
- Coordinate with embedded and wearable teams on head tracking, IMU ingestion, and sensor fusion paths.
- Ensure platform decisions enable orchestrated, cross-device audio experiences rather than isolated features.
- Balance requirements from Android OEM partners, tuning teams, and long-term platform and licensing strategy.
- Define clear ownership boundaries between Bose software, OEM platform changes, and third-party components.
- Ensure platform investments support future ecosystem expansion and repeatable software licensing.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years in software product management or technical product leadership.
- Experience leading system-level or platform software teams.
- Strong working knowledge of Android platform internals, especially modern Android audio.
- Proven ability to ship software tied to hardware, firmware, and OS integration.
- Technical credibility with Android framework, DSP, embedded, and Bluetooth engineers.
Nice to Have
- Experience with spatial audio, real-time signal processing, or acoustic tuning systems.
- Familiarity with Qualcomm and MediaTek Android audio stacks.
- Experience with Android OEM integration, AOSP-based development, or platform licensing models.
Technical Stack
- Android platform
- Android system audio (AudioFlinger, Audio HAL, AIDL)
- ARM processing
- Qualcomm Hexagon DSP
- MediaTek audio DSP
- Bluetooth audio (LE Audio, LC3, Auracast, Fast Pair)
- Spatial audio processing
- Acoustic tuning algorithms
Team & Environment
Part of Bose’s Technology Licensing team.
Benefits & Compensation
- Bonus programs
- Comprehensive health and welfare benefits
- 401(k) plan
- Exclusive perks supporting wellbeing
- Generous employee discount
- Compensation: $150,600-$207,150 (for primary work location of Framingham, Massachusetts)
Work Mode
This is a local-city position based in Framingham, Massachusetts.
Bose is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.
