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HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

Introduction: A Career at HARMAN Automotive

We’re a global, multi-disciplinary team that’s putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. At HARMAN Automotive, we give you the keys to fast-track your career.

• Engineer audio systems and integrated technology platforms that augment the driving experience
• Combine ingenuity, in-depth research, and a spirit of collaboration with design and engineering excellence
• Advance in-vehicle infotainment, safety, efficiency, and enjoyment

About the Role

As part of this role, you will work in our Connectivity System team on Linux Kernel configuration, driver development and maintenance, low level debug. Also, you will contribute to the design and development of the BSP and other system related software. In this role, you will report to an Engineering Manager and have no direct reports.

What You Will Do

• Analyze the customer requirements allocated to software and map the analyzed requirements to a new or existing software architecture.
• Evaluate and document the software architecture and present it to internal management, sales representatives and at customer meetings.
• Manage the implementation of the software architecture with both local and remote development teams.
• Ensures the overall strategic goal of platformization of the SW components.
• Technical analysis and assessment of customer requirements (RFC, RFI, RFQ)
• Resolve inconsistencies in case of unclear technical requirements in the specification by direct communication with the customer.
• Consideration of Harman processes, Automotive SPICE and functional safety requirements
• Reviews HDD and CDD and verifies them against product features, insuring Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Contact person to the customer and internally for evaluation of new concepts.
• Provides impact analysis for design changes; provide accurate estimates in time & costs for customer specific requirements.
• Together with the engineering manager is responsible for the overall planning. Must assure all projects are staffed and have their work planned in such a way that we can meet our milestones while fulfilling the required processes.
• Timely escalation of major issue and blocker to Global Engineering Lead depending on level impact.
• Writes code and tests (white-box testing) the component, based on design documentation.
• Analyze malfunctions in terms of time response, stability, robustness of components, as well as of the entire system.
• Analyses the system behavior and predicts root-causes of reported issues.
• Mainly acts as an expert/consultant of the specified area – advice customer with best-practices.
• Acts as mentor or coach for less experienced engineers.
• Definition of non-functional requirements, e.g. SW metrics, software quality tests, stability criteria and memory/CPU budgets.
• Act according to the standards of the automotive industry and in-car applications and software development processes.
• Monitoring of development status and software quality and with means of design and code reviews
• Bug fixing and maintenance tasks for the Software Components delivered.
• Analyze existing embedded software to add features, make modifications, fix bugs, and/or port to different platforms.
• Test software designs and code at the unit and system level to ensure that all requirements are met, and the highest software quality is achieved.

What You Need to Be Successful

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science or appropriate graduation) or equivalent
• BSc degree and 8+ years or MSc degree and 6+ years or PhD degree and 4+ years’ experience with Software-development in C++.
• Strong knowledge of Linux based systems.
• Experience with embedded projects and hardware handling.
• Proven solid experience as a software developer, system engineer or system analyst.
• Solid embedded and real-time applications development experience
• Strong UML, Design Patterns and Linux system analysis expertise
• Strong knowledge in inter-process communication, multithreading, networking
• Good interpersonal skills, ability to present status to both technical and non-technical persons.
• Capacity to mentor junior members of the team and to help them advance in their technical career.
• Capacity to sustain technical presentations.
• Perfect English communication skills both written and verbal.

Bonus Points if You Have

• Experience in automotive / Telematics systems.
• Experience with Linux in embedded systems (interface between hardware – software)
• Good knowledge of communication protocols (i.e. SPI/I2C/SPI/CAN/LIN/OABR)
• Good hardware knowledge

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel up to 10%, domestic only OR domestic and international travel.
• Good English communication skills

What We Offer

• Flexible work environment
• Access to employee discounts on world-class Harman and Samsung products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, etc.)
• Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University
• Competitive wellness benefits
• “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development

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HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.