Principal Engineer, Testing – In-Cabin Radar

HARMANs engineers and designers are creative purposeful and agile. As part of this team youll 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 youll 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

Were a global multi-disciplinary team thats 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

This position is part of HARMAN Automotives Ready Care R&D organization focused on delivering productionready incabin radar features (such as child presence detection and occupant classification) that enhance safety and wellbeing for drivers and passengers. We are seeking a hands-on and versatile engineer to lead the testing and operationalization of AI-based in-cabin radar systems. You will work closely with radar signal processing engineers data scientists embedded developers and product teams to build test infrastructure automate pipelines and validate performance across real-world scenarios.

What You Will Do

Radar Testing

• Design and implement test plans for validating in-cabin radar features (e.g. child presence detection occupancy detection occupancy classification).
• Develop automated test frameworks for regression robustness and edge-case validation using real and synthetic data.
• Plan and execute lab & vehicle experiments; curate datasets; define and automate offline/online evaluation to report KPI trends across environments occupants and seating configurations.
• Conduct performance benchmarking (latency accuracy reliability) on embedded platforms (e.g. TI AWR6843/44 NVIDIA Jetson Qualcomm).
• Collaborate with radar HW SW signal processing and ML teams to debug and resolve integration issues.

MLOps & Infrastructure (Nice to have)

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for model training evaluation and deployment.
• Manage model versioning reproducibility and monitoring in production environments.
• Integrate testing and validation into the ML lifecycle to ensure continuous quality.
• Optimize inference workflows for embedded deployment.

What You Need to Be Successful

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 10 years of experience in digital signal processing embedded systems or ML infrastructure.
• Strong programming skills in MATLAB/Python and C.
• Familiarity with test automation tools (e.g. GTest pytest CANoe MATLAB Test) and embedded validation workflows.
• Understanding of FMCW MIMO radars (beamforming/DOA rangeDoppler processing calibration clutter and multipath mitigation).
• Comfort working across lab & vehicle environments with structured test planning data logging and statistical analysis of results.

Bonus Points if You Have

• Experience with automotive standards (e.g. ASPICE Euro NCAP GSR).
• Exposure to in-cabin radar or camera feature testing.
• Experience with ML frameworks (e.g. PyTorch TensorFlow) and MLOps tools (e.g. MLflow).
• Familiarity with data annotation tools and synthetic data generation.
• ISTQB qualification

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to work in Harman office India (hybrid).
• Be willing to travel 5%
• Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment

What We Offer

• Flexible work environment allowing for full-time remote work globally for positions that can be performed outside a HARMAN or customer location
• 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
• Tuition reimbursement
• 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 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.