Connectivity architect

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.

• Define the technology strategy drive architecture influence development and support overall growth of relevant Connectivity SBU products (Telematics Infrastructure or Cyber Security).
• Drives the Edge computing and Telematics solutions for next generation computational needs and makes active contributions to the evolution of IP in the field
• Active participation in the vote and definition of product supplier and customer requirements in the context of burden/specification process
• Develop end-to-end solutions and system architectures that include clear specifications of all design parameters clear concepts of operations detailed cost evaluation and other requirements to input into a full business case.
• Delivers innovative solutions; establishes new business opportunities through research delivered patents and technical architecture specs and solution blueprints
• Recommend implementation standards and design patterns that support information security and regulatory compliance objectives
• Leading the technical communication with internal and external team representing system design team in involved projects
• Analysis and evaluation of the technical requirements and ensure the traceability to system design implementation owns the technical architecture specification documents
• Lead the technical direction and architecture for system HW and SW in various customer engagements
• Lead hands-on development of prototypes setups evaluations optimizations understanding the system control/data flow troubleshooting establishing ground truth etc.
• Suggest solutions suggest collaborations prepare SOW (statement of work) define PoC (Proof of Concept) prepare and conduct tests conduct analyses create summaries and present internally and to the customer. Define deliverables assign work packages track progress and remove roadblocks
• Constantly scout for new technologies and find cheaper and/or better solutions. Stay up to date with current trends and technologies review technologies for cross-application
• Bridging the technical team sales program management and the customer in projects execution and RFx
• Represent Harman Connectivity SBU in various technical symposiums and tradeshows
• Helps build a Patent Pool for the Connectivity SBU with the help of team members drawn from within and outside the Product Line
• Coach and mentor engineers on technical field of expertise and career possibilities.
• Provides technical expertise for the request for quotation (RFQ) phase of potential new projects
• Presentation of telematics technical solutions / concepts to our customers

What You Need

• Bachelors degree in electrical communications computer engineering or a similar discipline
• 15 years of experience in product development system/embedded software and connectivity technologies
• Deep technical expertise in Telematics and Communications with core knowledge in embedded cloud/edge mobile software applications
• Has proven record on working on building system design and architecture
• Expert understanding of System Level building blocks including key HW interfaces and Linux OS Kernel and Application layer
• Experience in architecting and designing end to end solutions involving embedded devices cloud applications and mobile applications
• Experience with technical leadership software roadmaps research and development new software initiatives and customer and engineering coordination and engagement
• Lead the conceptualization design implementation and testing of demonstrators. Consistently demonstrating technical expertise and ingenuity.
• Demonstrate the ability to plan define and execute projects with little/no supervision
• Creative thinker and problem solver with ability to quickly distill complex problem space down actionable items
• Outstanding verbal written presentation facilitation and interaction skills including ability to effectively communicate architectural issues and concepts to technical and non-technical people at multiple organization levels required

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.