Senior Power Electronics Engineer
Hopkinton, MA
Full Time
Engineering
Experienced
Company Overview:
Bose Professional is a leader in the professional audio industry, specializing in the design and manufacturing of cutting-edge audio solutions including loudspeakers, amplifiers, signal processing devices, controls, software, and accessories. As we continue to expand our team, we are seeking a Senior Power Electronics Engineer to join us on our journey.
We have organized ourselves culturally around a set of shared values. We are a team first, which means we are collaborative and support each other toward our common goals. We start everything from the outside in, starting with the customer and solving from there. We value trust, so we are a company of people who are open and direct, avoid politics, and who do what it takes to deliver on our commitments. And as we work together, we are empathetic, courteous, and fair, because we respect each other. Finally, we believe that creativity and innovation belong in all parts of the company in order to drive excellence in everything we do.
Position Overview:
At Bose Professional, we create products that help people feel more, do more, and be more: sound systems in Restaurants, Retail Stores, and House of Worship that uses music to bring people together and share common experiences in world-wide markets Bose Professional is seeking a Senior Power Electronics Engineer to define, design, and support our line of high-power amplifiers, power supplies, and other installed audio electronics. This role is not solely focused on power electronics—the candidate will also be actively involved in full audio system design, ensuring seamless integration of power solutions with signal processing, amplification, and overall system architecture.
Key Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Our ideal candidate will have 7+ years in the following areas:
Bose Professional is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in the workplace. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply.
Position/Title: Senior Power Electronics Engineer
Time Type: Full-time
Location: Hopkinton, MA - Hybrid
Reports to: Director of Electrical Engineering
Department: Engineering
Bose Professional is a leader in the professional audio industry, specializing in the design and manufacturing of cutting-edge audio solutions including loudspeakers, amplifiers, signal processing devices, controls, software, and accessories. As we continue to expand our team, we are seeking a Senior Power Electronics Engineer to join us on our journey.
We have organized ourselves culturally around a set of shared values. We are a team first, which means we are collaborative and support each other toward our common goals. We start everything from the outside in, starting with the customer and solving from there. We value trust, so we are a company of people who are open and direct, avoid politics, and who do what it takes to deliver on our commitments. And as we work together, we are empathetic, courteous, and fair, because we respect each other. Finally, we believe that creativity and innovation belong in all parts of the company in order to drive excellence in everything we do.
Position Overview:
At Bose Professional, we create products that help people feel more, do more, and be more: sound systems in Restaurants, Retail Stores, and House of Worship that uses music to bring people together and share common experiences in world-wide markets Bose Professional is seeking a Senior Power Electronics Engineer to define, design, and support our line of high-power amplifiers, power supplies, and other installed audio electronics. This role is not solely focused on power electronics—the candidate will also be actively involved in full audio system design, ensuring seamless integration of power solutions with signal processing, amplification, and overall system architecture.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate across engineering disciplines, product line management, and global design partners on new product development initiatives.
- Lead the design and development of switching power supplies, class-D audio amplifiers, and control loops, optimized for power levels ranging from several hundred watts up to 12kW.
- Participate in all phases of New Product Development including creating technical proposals, aiding in product definition, product architecture, designing Professional audio products, prototype evaluation and testing, and helping with sustaining engineering activities.
- Contribute to full audio system design, ensuring seamless integration of power electronics with audio signal processing, amplification, and control systems to create high-performance audio solutions.
- Design and optimize power electronics systems using wide bandgap semiconductors (GaN and SiC) to improve efficiency, power density, and thermal performance.
- Develop and refine control loops for self-oscillating class-D amplifiers, ensuring stable operation, high efficiency, and excellent transient response.
- Define and implement high-performance power factor correction (PFC) circuits, including bridgeless totem pole, transition mode, and interleaved PFC architectures.
- Implement and optimize converter topologies, such as flyback, LLC resonant, and full bridge converters, for high-power applications.
- Ensure designs meet EMC, signal integrity, and thermal management requirements, adhering to compliance regulations and best practices.
- Conduct power electronics modeling and simulations to ensure performance objectives are met.
- Troubleshoot and resolve high-power electronics failures, using structured problem-solving techniques such as 8D methodology.
- Perform design verification testing and generate requisite reports and documentation.
- Participate in design reviews covering schematics, PCB layouts, component selection, and overall system integration.
- Mentor team members and contribute to expanding our design capabilities.
Qualifications:
Our ideal candidate will have 7+ years in the following areas:
- Working in a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary design team, where mentorship and group design reviews are encouraged.
- Design, simulation, and performance evaluation for switching power supplies and Class-D audio amplifiers.
- Control loop design, including compensation techniques and stability analysis for switching power supplies and self-oscillating class-D amplifiers.
- Experience with wide bandgap semiconductors, including GaN and SiC for high-efficiency, high-frequency power conversion.
- Highly proficient in PCB layout for high-power applications, ensuring ideal switch behavior, power integrity, thermal management, and reliability.
- Expertise in schematic capture and PCB layout tools (Altium preferred).
- Electromagnetic analysis, simulation, and troubleshooting for power electronics.
- Familiarity with power integrity and signal integrity analysis for high-speed electronics.
- Experience with embedded control for power electronics, including microcontroller-based power management and control loop design.
- Strong design review practices of all design artifacts including schematics, layout, component derating, and BOM.
- Familiarity with audio performance specifications, their implications on system performance, and how to measure these parameters.
- Demonstrated use of electronics lab equipment in conducting the above activities.
Bose Professional is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in the workplace. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply.
Position/Title: Senior Power Electronics Engineer
Time Type: Full-time
Location: Hopkinton, MA - Hybrid
Reports to: Director of Electrical Engineering
Department: Engineering
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