Principal Engineer, Mechanical Engineering

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.

About the Role

In this position you will support the design of loudspeakers for new and existing Japanese customer programs and work with the global engineering development team to maintain the commonality of loudspeaker designs across all J-OEMs.

Your Team

This position will have direct report to manager of SPK SME-Japan team who is technical interface with all J-OEMs.

What You Will Do

• Lead and support a speaker packaging design and detailed mechanical design of loudspeakers on assigned New Product Development projects working together with the design team in Suzhou China or in Novi MI.
• Be the main customer interface (Especially for Honda Japan be the speaker technical lead) and technical expert for mechanical and transducer related issues.
• Focus on cost efficiency reliability and continuous improvement as part of the loudspeaker development.
• Lead and support the global mechanical and transducer engineering teams to design and validate loudspeakers to meet or exceed customer requirements.
• Lead and support and in some instances lead mechanical or transducer design-related problem-solving on a multitude of programs and projects.
• Provide technical support on acoustic performance measurements durability and cost at design and feasibility reviews.
• Support and review all relevant documentation such as Bills of Material both Harman and customer drawings Simulation data DFMEA/DRBFM DVP&R and all other documentation required to support the development process and customer requirements.

• Actively participate in the development of loudspeaker designs about all external and internal requirements during the RFQ/RFI stage.
• Lead and support the mechanical and transducer development teams during the interaction with the customer on mechanical or transducer-related topics.
• Analysis of technical specifications and lead technical negotiations with customers.

• Use maintain and improve upon Best Practices and Design Standards in the knowledge Management system via the Lessons Learned process.
• Verify Projects Systems database with accurate Transducer information for multiple projects.

What You Need

• Bachelors Degree in Science or Engineering or equivalent
• 5-10 years minimum post-graduation experience in the field of mechanical and transducer design using CATIA V5 or V6.
• Ability to summarize complex situations and communicate effectively internally and externally.
• Experience to work on J-OEM program 3 years of experience being familiar with J-OEMs development processes.
• Technical Project management skills.
• Additional experience may be substituted for education and vice-versa.
• Fluent Japanese.
• Ability to conduct business in English.
• Working Knowledge of:
  • COMSOL Magnet or other transducer modeling Experience
  • DFMEA (Design Failure Mode & Effects Analysis) and/or DRBFM
  • Hondas System Verification Review Process
  • Problem-Solving Methodologies (8-D PHASE-5 test reporting Fault Tree Analysis Fish Bone Analysis etc)
  • Automotive component integration

What is Nice to Have

• Familiarity with Klippel and transducer measurement systems
• PMP (Project Management Professional) training
• GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerance)
• Automotive requirements and procedures (APQP / PPAP / DVP)
• Experience working with PLM and PDM systems
• Experience working with automotive OEM Audio Engineering
• Customer/supplier negotiations and interfaces (Working experience with Honda is highly preferred)
• New product launches and quality support
• Experience working with global teams
• Fluent in customers language and familiar with customer culture
• Chinese language/communication skills

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel (domestic and international) up to 5 - 10%
• Be willing to work in an office in Ariake Japan
• Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment

What We Offer

• We offer an authentic diverse equal and inclusive work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development in a truly global organization.
• You will work on products and services that touch peoples lives and will change the industrial standards being a part of the transformations in our industry.
• Our work environments are fast paced challenging empowering collaborative flexible and exciting.
• We offer our own HARMAN University with regular updates on the new technologies and trends by utilizing various sessions organized by Self Learning and Development Trainings to help grow and advance talent.
• We offer competitive compensation/benefit programs and recognition programs.

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.