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Privately owned, fiercely customer-focused, and driven by our values, we continue to lead industries and transform lives through sound.\nToday, 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.\nJob Description\nWe are seeking an experienced Senior Electrical Engineer - Battery & Power Design to join the Consumer Product Engineering organization. This role will contribute to the architecture, detailed design, integration, and productization of battery-powered consumer electronics from early concept through mass production.\nThe successful candidate will be a hands-on electrical engineer with strong expertise in battery systems, battery protection, charging, power conversion, power management, and low-power electronics. The engineer will work closely with the Battery & Power Electronics teams, Systems Engineering, Software, Mechanical Engineering, EMC, Reliability, Safety/Compliance, suppliers, and manufacturing partners to deliver robust and efficient battery-system designs.\nThe role requires strong electrical engineering fundamentals, practical design experience at the component and PCB level, and the ability to independently resolve complex technical problems across the battery and power subsystem.\nKey Responsibilities\nBattery & Power System Design\nSupport battery-cell and battery-pack selection based on electrical, runtime, charging, thermal, safety, reliability, and product requirements.\nDesign and develop battery and power-management circuitry for portable consumer electronic products.\nDevelop and review schematics for battery packs, chargers, Qi chargers, power-path management, DC/DC converters, regulators, protection circuits, fuel gauges, and related power electronics.\nPerform component selection, circuit analysis, simulation, design calculations, and design trade-off studies.\nEvaluate and optimize power architecture for efficiency, runtime, standby current, thermal performance, charging performance, and system robustness.\nProvide technical guidance for PCB layout of switching power supplies, charging circuits, high-current paths, sensitive analog signals, grounding, and power integrity.\nDesign Integration and Product Development\nTranslate product and system requirements into battery and power subsystem designs.\nIntegrate battery, charging, power-management, protection, and sensing functions with the overall product electrical architecture.\nWork closely with embedded software engineers on charger control, fuel gauging, battery-management interfaces, power states, fault handling, and system behavior.\nSupport electrical interfaces using protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART, USB, and other embedded interfaces as required.\nCollaborate with Mechanical Engineering on battery-pack integration, connector selection, thermal considerations, mechanical constraints, and custom battery-pack development.\nCollaborate with EMC, Safety, Reliability, and Compliance engineers to ensure designs meet product and regulatory requirements.\nBring-Up, Debug, and Engineering Analysis\nPerform board bring-up, characterization, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis of battery and power-related issues.\nCharacterize charging behavior, power conversion efficiency, current consumption, startup and shutdown behavior, transient response, battery runtime, and system power states.\nEvaluate formal verification and validation results and drive technical resolution of design issues.\nInvestigate complex hardware, firmware, battery, supplier, and system-level interactions.\nUse laboratory equipment including oscilloscopes, electronic loads, precision power analyzers, power supplies, multimeters, current probes, and related instrumentation.\nDevelop scripts, tools, or automated methods where appropriate to improve design characterization and engineering analysis.\nSupplier and Manufacturing Collaboration\nWork directly with battery-cell, battery-pack, charger IC, fuel-gauge, power-management IC, and other technology suppliers.\nSupport technical evaluation and qualification of new components and technologies.\nCollaborate with suppliers on custom battery-pack and power-system design solutions.\nReview supplier data, characterization results, design recommendations, and technical roadmaps.\nSupport contract manufacturers and development partners through prototype builds, design validation, production introduction, and post-production issue resolution.\nTechnology Development and Engineering Excellence\nEvaluate emerging battery, charging, power-management, and power-conversion technologies for future products.\nContribute to development and improvement of reusable battery and power design practices, design guidelines, reference designs, and engineering methods.\nCapture technical learning and design best practices for reuse across programs.\nParticipate in design reviews and provide technical guidance to other electrical engineers working on battery-powered products.\nContribute to Battery & Power Systems knowledge sharing and capability development across the broader Electrical Engineering organization.\nEducation and Experience\nBachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or closely related field; Master’s Degree preferred.\nTypically 8+ years of relevant electrical product design experience, including significant hands-on experience with battery-powered or low-power electronic systems.\nDemonstrated experience developing complex electrical subsystems from concept through product launch.\nStrong experience with component-level and PCB-level electrical design, analysis, bring-up, and debugging.\nAbility to work independently on complex technical problems with limited supervision.\nRequired Technical Skills\nStrong understanding of battery-powered system architecture and power-management design.\nHands-on experience with:Lithium-ion or lithium-polymer battery systems.\nBattery charging and power-path architectures.\nFuel-gauge and battery-monitoring devices.\nBattery protection and safety circuits.\nBuck, boost, buck-boost, LDO, and other power-conversion topologies.\nLow-power and standby-current optimization.\nPower sequencing and system power-state management.\n\nStrong analog and mixed-signal electrical engineering fundamentals.\nExperience with schematic capture, circuit simulation, and PCB design-review tools.\nUnderstanding of PCB layout considerations for switching regulators, high-current paths, grounding, power integrity, thermal performance, and EMC.\nExperience with embedded microcontrollers and hardware/software interfaces.\nFamiliarity with I2C, SPI, UART, USB, and similar digital interfaces.\nStrong laboratory characterization and troubleshooting skills.\nExperience performing systematic root-cause analysis of hardware and system-level problems.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary engineering teams.\nPreferred Skills and Experience\nConsumer electronics product-development experience.\nExperience designing battery-powered audio, wearable, portable, or other high-volume consumer products.\nExperience with custom battery-pack development and battery-pack suppliers.\nFamiliarity with battery-management systems (BMS) and algorithms, including State of Charge, State of Health, fuel gauging, and protection strategies.\nExperience with USB-C and USB Power Delivery charging architectures.\nExperience with wireless charging technologies such as Qi.\nFamiliarity with battery safety, transportation, and product regulatory requirements.\nExperience designing products for EMC, electrical safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance.\nExperience working with contract manufacturers, ODMs, and global component suppliers.\nExperience using Python, MATLAB, or similar tools for engineering analysis, characterization, or test automation.\nFamiliarity with manufacturing test methodologies and production support.\nRole Expectations\nThis individual is expected to independently own technically complex battery and power design activities, influence product-level technical decisions, identify and resolve cross-functional design issues, and provide technical guidance to other engineers.\nThe engineer will work closely with the broader Battery & Power Systems team and other battery specialists across Electrical Engineering, helping translate battery and power technology strategy into robust product designs while improving reuse, technical consistency, and engineering capability across programs.\nAt 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: $146,700-$201,750.The hiring range for other Bose work locations may vary.\n\nIn 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. 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