Product Sustainability Engineer

Bose Corporation•Framingham, MA

3d•$115,700 - $159,050•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a technical compliance engineer to lead Bose’s Ecodesign / Sustainable Design compliance domain and ensure emerging design impactful regulations are translated into clear, actionable engineering requirements and integrated into product development decisions with sufficient lead time to protect market access. Ecodesign requirements are increasingly moving beyond isolated “battery” or “packaging” obligations and are creating a broader set of sustainable design requirements that cut across disciplines and product categories. Success in this role requires strong systems thinking and cross functional influence to connect regulatory intent to engineering implementation across hardware, materials, packaging, and lifecycle considerations. This role partners closely with Legal under Bose’s shared responsibility model for monitoring and interpretation, and collaborates with existing domain owners (e.g., Product Safety, Materials Compliance, Energy Efficiency, etc.) to ensure integrated and consistent technical implementation.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical field
5-10 years of experience in product compliance, engineering, or related technical roles
Domain ownership with systems thinking — Ability to lead a cross disciplinary compliance domain that inherently spans multiple engineering areas
Regulatory interpretation to technical translation — Ability to work with Legal to extract technical obligations from complex requirements and express them as clear engineering requirements
Cross functional influence — Ability to align engineering, packaging, sourcing, service, and compliance stakeholders without direct authority
Clarity and precision — Ability to distill complex inputs into crisp guidance, requirements, and decision support artifacts
Proactive mindset — Ability to operate with long lead time awareness so design impactful requirements are integrated early enough to avoid late churn

Nice To Haves

Experience with EU regulatory frameworks relevant to Ecodesign / sustainable design (e.g., batteries regulation, packaging regulation, broader Ecodesign obligations) and translating those into product design requirements
Exposure to multiple compliance domains (e.g., safety, materials, energy efficiency) and cross discipline integration
Familiarity with organizational processes for regulatory monitoring/interpretation and how technical compliance partners with Legal

Responsibilities

Own the technical compliance perspective for the Ecodesign / Sustainable Design domain and provide clear guidance that product development teams can implement
Ensure Ecodesign requirements that cut across commodities and product categories are consistently interpreted and communicated as engineering requirements
Distill complex regulatory requirements into clear engineering expectations and design guidance, including examples such as: minimum recycled content requirements, design for recyclability performance criteria, design for reusability, minimization of packaging empty space (void space), user replaceability requirements (e.g., batteries)
Identify deltas between current product/packaging designs and emerging requirements and translate those deltas into actionable inputs for programs
Integrate Ecodesign requirements across engineering functions and existing compliance domains so obligations do not fall through gaps when requirements span safety, materials, energy efficiency, packaging, serviceability, documentation, or labeling
Work with domain owners to ensure Ecodesign-related requirements are clearly defined and appropriately owned for execution
Partner with Legal to support proactive monitoring and interpretation of Ecodesign regulatory developments, consistent with Bose’s shared responsibility model
Help ensure emerging requirements are identified early enough to inform design decisions with appropriate lead time
Provide the technical requirements, artifacts, and guidance needed for compliance execution teams to support certification/registration and compliance documentation activities when Ecodesign requirements drive new documentation/labeling obligations
Resolve cross-domain technical ambiguity that may block execution, ensuring program teams have clear direction on how to proceed
Develop and maintain Ecodesign requirements, technical guidance, and frameworks to enable consistent application across programs
Partner with domain engineers and program teams to ensure consistent interpretation and implementation of Ecodesign requirements across product development efforts
Clarify complex or ambiguous cross-domain topics where requirements are not yet fully defined or operationalized
Continuously evolve the Ecodesign compliance domain based on regulatory developments, implementation experience, and lessons learned