Sr. Director, Architect - Research Franchises

About the role

Bose Corporation is seeking a Sr. Director, Architect – Research Franchises to lead the long-term scientific and systems architecture of Bose Research capability franchises. This role will ensure that each franchise maintains a coherent scientific direction, durable research agenda, and strong architectural alignment with Bose’s long-term Smart Edge technology strategy.

Responsibilities

• 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 intellectual property, and future venture opportunities.

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.