Automotive Software Architect

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

HARMAN Automotive Engineering Services (AES) offers vehicle OEMs the complete lifecycle of software development, including consulting on industry trends and assessing planned architectures, and software-defined vehicle architecture development.

The Presales, Strategy and Partnerships team is looking for an experienced Automotive Software Architect with expert technical knowledge of vehicle software, combined with deep experience with architecture tools and processes, and a passion for innovating the next generation of consumer automotive experiences. The Automotive Software Architect will act as technical lead during business development and presales for our OEM customers, as they evolve their architectures to support software-defined vehicles.

Responsibilities

• Work with HARMAN’s OEM customers to advise on and develop vehicle architectures, considering industry trends in software-defined vehicles.
• Act as a technical leader within cross-functional teams, both during presales and project delivery.
• Help drive competence development within the AES Architecture Community by researching and presenting latest technologies.
• Work with Sales to produce marketing collateral, participate in events, and do proactive business development.

Needed Qualifications

• Experienced in business development/presales of vehicle software engineering projects, including proactive pitches to customers and responding to RFXs.
• Possess general knowledge of vehicle E/E architectures and trends such as central zonal architectures and high-performance computing platforms.
• Familiar with software-defined vehicle technologies and enablers including hypervisors, containers, OTA SW updates, heterogenous workload orchestration, service-oriented architectures, vehicle abstraction and digital twins.
• Familiar with model-based system and software engineering with SysML or UML.
• Able to communicate ideas clearly, through writing, speaking, and diagramming.
• Fluent spoken and written English.

Preferred Experience

• ISO 26262 Functional Safety projects.
• ASPICE-compliant projects.
• Agile frameworks such as SAFe.
• Requirements engineering.
• Embedded real-time and general-purpose operating systems, including AUTOSAR Classic and Adaptive, QNX, Linux, Android Automotive.
• Hardware safety and security features such as safety islands, HSMs and TEEs.
• Diagnostics protocols, power management, distributed logging, system performance optimization.

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel, domestic and international
• Be willing to work in the HARMAN office in Bangalore (at least twice per month), client site, or remotely from home, as needed by the business

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.