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Sr. Director, Architect - Research Franchises

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.

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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…