Principal SW Engineer, Telematics

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.

About the Role

We are looking for a Software Engineer in the Connectivity team and you will have the opportunity to develop innovative software for the automotive industry. Telematics products exposes the internal car ecosystem to the Internet: the car becomes an element of the Internet of Things (IoT), offering a new level of access to car’s functionalities and a platform to build additional features in areas such as safety, security, comfort. You will work with concepts like Telematics, 5G and V2X (vehicle-to-everything).

You will be a window person to JOEMs and representing SW domain team for successful program execution.

What You Will Do

• Be a window person to customers and lead software development for the particular domain and integration on assigned new product development projects, through the global design team.
• Derive and extend technical requirements from customer requirements, internal requirements, change requests and system architectural design.
• Lead the creation of DFMEA/DRBFM with global development team and present/review them with customer(s).
• Develops component design document based on specifications and given SW architecture.
• Estimate implementation effort and map requirements/features to releases/milestones.
• Track progress of all development activities (complete V-Model) regularly.
• Adjust/synchronize planning with overall project schedule/milestones and communicate deviations.
• Identify, analyze, manage and report risks.
• Review/approve work products e.g. design documents, decisions.
• Coordinates software development activities with software project leader.

What You Need

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or other relevant (IT connected) specializations.
• At least 3+ years of experience as a software developer with C/C++ knowledge
• At least 3+ years of experience leading global team.
• Experience in developing embedded applications.
• Knowledge in inter-process communication, threading, socket communication.
• Fluent in Japanese and Business level English.
• Working knowledge of embedded operating systems.
• Debug knowledge using gdb.

What is Nice to Have

• Understanding of TCP/IP protocol internals.
• Automotive experience.
• Unified Modeling Language Knowledge.
• Knowledge in agile software development methods (SCRUM, SAFe Agile).
• Knowledge of process models (e.g. Automotive SPICE® specially SWE.2).
• Knowledge of secure coding standards.
• Knowledge of Automotive Functional Safety (ISO 26262).

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel up to 30%, domestic only OR domestic and international travel.

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 people’s 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 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.