Engineer, NT&I

A Career at HARMAN Lifestyle

Were a global multi-disciplinary team thats putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. As a member of HARMAN Lifestyle you connect consumers with the power of superior sound.

• Contribute your talents to high-end esteemed brands like JBL Mark Levinson and Revel
• Unite your passion for audio innovation with high-tech product development
• Create pitch-perfect cutting-edge technology that elevates the listening experience

About the Role

We are looking for an AI Innovation Engineer to join A-Lab Harman Consumer Audio Engineerings advanced technology and innovation team.

This role focuses on building AI-powered internal tools agentic workflows and automation systems that improve how engineering innovation product and business teams work. The candidate will write code use AI-assisted development tools and turn emerging AI capabilities into practical software solutions.

We value practical building experience more than formal credentials alone. Candidates are expected to show real projects they have built such as AI agents workflow automation tools LLM applications internal tools data-analysis assistants or personal AI projects. Fresh graduates or early-career candidates are welcome if they can demonstrate strong hands-on capability fast learning ability and a builder mindset.

Your Team

You will join A-Lab a forward-looking innovation team within Consumer Audio Engineering. A-Lab explores new technologies builds proof-of-concepts validates future opportunities and supports selected innovations toward real adoption.

The team works across audio acoustics AI software algorithms user experience and rapid prototyping. Projects may relate to Soundbars Portable Speakers Headphones One App connected experiences internal tools and broader digital innovation opportunities.

What You Will Do

• Build AI-powered internal tools agentic workflows and automation systems that improve engineering innovation product data and business processes
• Design develop test and deploy AI applications using Python LLM APIs agent frameworks automation pipelines AI-assisted coding tools and lightweight user interfaces
• Create AI agents for knowledge retrieval document generation workflow automation data analysis research assistance requirement drafting and test-case generation
• Work with A-Lab teammates and cross-functional stakeholders to identify workflow pain points validate use cases improve reliability through feedback loops and turn ideas into working tools

What You Need to Be Successful

• Strong hands-on coding capability especially in Python with experience using Git APIs testing debugging and basic deployment environments
• Practical experience building AI-agent applications LLM-based tools workflow automation systems or AI-powered internal tools
• Ability to show real work you have built such as a portfolio demo GitHub repository prototype hackathon project open-source contribution or personal AI project
• Familiarity with LLM APIs prompt engineering function calling tool use RAG agent frameworks orchestration methods and AI-assisted coding tools
• Understanding of how to evaluate and improve AI systems including test harnesses feedback loops failure analysis reliability privacy maintainability and user trust
• Strong curiosity fast learning ability builder mindset and good collaboration skills across different technical backgrounds
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Electrical Engineering Artificial Intelligence Data Science or related technical field is preferred; strong practical project experience will also be considered
  

Bonus Points if You Have

• Experience with LLM / agent frameworks such as LangChain LangGraph LlamaIndex AutoGen CrewAI OpenAI API Claude API Gemini API or similar tools
• Experience building internal productivity tools knowledge assistants workflow copilots dashboards automation bots data-analysis agents or enterprise RAG systems
• Experience with lightweight frontend databases vector databases cloud deployment Docker CI/CD telemetry BI tools or product analytics
• Personal AI projects hackathon projects open-source projects startup experience or internal innovation experience
• Interest in audio music entertainment technology consumer electronics or creative tools with good product sense for identifying real workflow pain points

HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard torace 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.