Senior Product Safety Engineer

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 Product Safety 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.
Role Overview:
Have a passion for Audio or Music? Bose Professional has an exciting opportunity to join our System Validation Engineering Team as a Senior Product Safety Engineer. The position is for an energetic, hands-on, engineering lead with a strong understanding of system and circuit design fundamentals with a key understanding of worldwide Safety and regulatory compliance requirements for professional audio products. The Senior Safety Engineer will be a contributor to the expansion of our product lines across multiple professional audio product worldwide markets as a member of the SVE team. The SVE team supports all facets of the product life cycle as a part of the Global Bose Professional Engineering team from advanced development and new product introductions, to continuing engineering and cost reduction work. This is a “hands-on” position that has a direct impact that will require the person to collaborate Globally within Bose Professional as well as with our Contract Manufacture (CM) engineering teams. 
Key Responsibilities:

• As the department’s Safety SME (Subject Matter Expert) you will work with the Electrical and Mechanical Design teams to continuously improve the products design and performance of our diverse products as it pertains to all relevant worldwide Safety standards. This will include working upfront with new product teams to review and improve designs such as being an active participant in schematic, layout and system design reviews.
• Generate all required testing plans per each product phase and continuing engineering effort based on engineering review of the design and relevant compliance standards. These testing plans would cover all product types from passive loudspeakers to powered systems and Li-ion battery packs. 
• Provide strong technical support and consultation to our CMs and international certification agencies (CQC, UL, TUV, etc), to obtain details and properly analyze results that are consistent with electronic industry worldwide safety test standards for use in global certifications.
• Perform alternate construction reviews and submittals for all required worldwide agencies. 
• Demonstrate a confirmed solid understanding of Energy Efficiency testing and proficiency with test equipment for powered systems and external power supplies. 
• Lead the debug efforts for all Safety related items with the product designers’, trouble-shooting all Safety test failures and provide potential solutions.
• Define and standardize Bose Professional Product Safety testing methodologies for worldwide product approvals.
• Drive all continuous improvement activities related to Product Safety for Bose Pro Professional and CM partners. 

Qualifications:

• Product Safety design and test experience in a fast paced, engineer-focused environment
• Experience in performing IEC/EN/UL/CSA 62133, 61960, 62368, 1480, 1480A, EN54-24 tests are required.
• Experience in Energy Efficiency Standards IEC 62301, EN 50563/50564, NOM-029, CAN/CSA-C381
• Solid understanding of worldwide marking and certification requirements for Product Safety for commercial audio products.
• Understanding of critical component selection and how it relates to design and PCB layout for Product Safety.
• Hands-on Product Safety risk review and mitigation/de-bug experience
• Strong understanding of amplifier technology and switch mode power supplies is preferred
• Experience with passive loudspeaker product Safety is preferred
• Excellent communication skills among a global organization are required
• Ability to work independently and proactively
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, Teams, and SharePoint applications
• Strong working knowledge of JIRA 
• Working knowledge of PTC CodeBeamer is preferred

Education:

• BSEE or MSEE with a minimum of 10 years’ related experience in compliance

Travel:

• Occasional travel, domestic and international (less than 10%)

Bose Professional is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in the workplace. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply.
Position/Title: Senior Safety Engineer
Reports to: System Validation Manager located in the US
Time Type: Full-time
Location: This is a hybrid role working 3-days a week onsite in Framingham, MA