Research Program Leader

Research Domains

• Perceptual Intelligence Systems
• Environmental Adaptation & Sensing Systems
• Distributed Edge Orchestration
• Trusted & Intelligent Systems

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the long-term scientific vision, mission, and driving research questions for their research program
• Establish and evolve decade-scale science arcs that begin with sound and audio where appropriate and expand deliberately toward multimodal, distributed, and intelligent edge systems
• Operate research programs to produce durable, defensible capability layers rather than isolated technical breakthroughs or opportunistic projects
• Set the scientific quality bar for the program’s foundational assets, including models, datasets, evaluation frameworks, reference implementations, and core intellectual property
• Represent the research team in executive-level discussions and recommend long-range technical direction, major bets, and scientific tradeoffs
• Recruit, attract, and retain outstanding researchers, engineers, and collaborators who can raise the technical ambition and execution quality of the research team
• 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
• Translate long-arc scientific questions into 12–36 month programs with clear hypotheses, milestones, output expectations, and funding decision gates
• 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
• Ensure programs produce deployable artifacts such as reusable primitives, APIs, evaluation harnesses, datasets, and reference models rather than stand-alone demos
• Balance exploration, foundational asset creation, and near-term offramps without allowing the research to become feature-driven or fragmented
• Partner with the peer Research Leads to align work across perception, sensing, orchestration, trust, rendering, and efficient edge deployment
• Ensure work can plug into shared system architectures spanning devices, environments, networks, and ecosystems
• Prevent scientific duplication and research fragmentation through shared roadmaps, technical interfaces, and evaluation language across the lab
• Partner with Commercialization team to define technology deployment paths through consumer products, engineered systems, software/middleware, and foundational IP
• Advocate for research investment based on long-term strategic leverage and system position, not only on short-term feature demand
• Represent Bose in collaborations with universities, research institutes, national labs, standards groups, and advanced technology partners relevant to the franchise domain
• Contribute visible scientific leadership and thought partnership in external technical communities
• Maintain awareness of emerging technical, ecosystem, and policy developments that may affect research direction or timing

Qualifications

• 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
• 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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