Principal Engineer II , SW - Embedded C++, Middleware

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.

Position Summary: The Telematics Solution position will report into the HARMAN Engineering organization and will be responsible for researching and the delivering software, POCs for automotive embedded devices, which are both consumer and automotive grade products.

Telematics is the key foundational technology for the connected car and autonomous driving. It includes technology like LTE modems and network access devices (NADs) as well as wireless standards e.g. BT/WiFi, GNSS, NFC etc. are one of the fastest growing areas. HARMAN works with leading suppliers to design telematics solutions to ensure every in-car experience is entertaining, productive, safe, and secure.

As part of an agile team, you will research and build the software on telematics devices with state-of-the-art technologies and features like communication, networking, and positioning. You will be on a path-finding mission to enable and create new business in the Telematics domain. Will be part of highly visible demos; and lead effort to bring the product and solutions to market. Your responsibilities include design, development/coding, build, debug, and modify software enhancements and new products development.

Software technical architect for software development of projects in the V2X and MEC software domain, in the embedded platform on Linux. Define key technical strategies and drive initiatives to excel in software development methodologies and deliveries to customers and OEMs in the Telematics Control unit and Connectivity domain of the Automotive Industry

Job Responsibilities:

• Play the lead technical role in defining software architecture, design and development of projects in the V2X and MEC domain for embedded platforms.
• Take complete technical ownership of ensuring that there are no gaps in designing scalable and reusable software component; have hands-on experience in solving all critical technical issues.
• Design and develop scalable, maintainable, well automotive grade Linux applications for V2X devices in compliance with industry standards on embedded platforms.
• Understand business requirements, associate them with agile entities (epics/stories/tasks) for planning and execution.
• Although primarily a technical role, you should have the right interpersonal skills to be approachable, define, drive and negotiate and reach timely consensus on issues within the team as well as with customers.
• Be able to independently drive requirements discussions with customers,
• Initiate and track dependencies of technical deliveries with external and internal stakeholders.
• Interface with System and Software architects and drive discussions.

• Responsible for technical delivery and management of key features.
• Technically mentor and lead a team of engineers with core capability around V2X technology domain
• Contribute new ideas and be proactive to work with multiple teams for resolving technical issues

Basic Qualifications:

• Masters/Bachelor’s degree in electrical, communications, computer engineering or a similar discipline
• Should have 12 to 15 years of overall experience in software development in embedded development practices using C++ and C; solid foundation in OOPS concepts and prior experience in architecture and design of software and work with teams across geographical locations
• Should have strong programming skills in C++
• Working experience in Linux Embedded Systems
• Working experience in Linux Systems Programming. Good understanding of 
  • Linux Inter Process Communication mechanisms (sockets, message queues, shared memory)
  • Concepts and techniques for Multithreaded applications
  • State Machine Implementation
• Prior experience in working directly with customers during requirement analysis, scoping, discuss key issues and seek resolutions to technical topics.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills to collaborate with teams across geographies.
• A broad technical background with general knowledge of cellular and network technology (5G, V2X), standards, software architectures, and automotive-grade products and processes
• Must have previous experience in high level and low-level design of modules
• Must have previous experience in Requirement analysis and usage of requirements analysis tools like DOORs
• Apt knowledge of software architecture tools such as Enterprise Architect.
• Ability to work independently and mentor team members
• Preferred experience developing and debugging software in a real-time, embedded, multiprocessor, multi-interface environment using standard tools such as Gdb, Valgrind, wireshark etc
• Working experience with industry standard version control systems like GIT, Gerrit
• Working experience with unit test automation tools

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
• Access to HARMAN Campus Fitness Center and Cafeteria
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development.

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.