Senior Principal Engineer, FMEA

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:

This position is within HARMAN’s Automotive Division. The primary responsibility is to facilitate & moderate creation of Product FMEA on system design and architecture for Car Audio Systems as well as for complex audio features. The System Architecture team is looking for the ultimate team player with positive and constructive thinking.  The Successful candidate will have a demonstrated record of accomplishment of success with audio systems failure mode avoidance and customer facing interaction.

Your Team:

This position will have no reports

What You Will Do :

• Create Product FMEA on System Design and Architecture on basic, mid to high complex Systems, Platforms and modules for Car Audio Systems from basic idea up to product launch
• Technical lead on creation of FMEA collaborating with cross competency SME’s of SYS, HW, ME and SW.
• Lead and steer the technical discussions with cross- functional team on failure modes from product design, quality, testing, reliability to ensuring feasible and cost optimized product design.
• Perform technical presentations directly with OEM’s on FMEA related discussions
• Perform design reviews for each development stage about compliance of development parts to system design requirements to secure maturity

What You Need:

• Master or Bachelor’s degree with appropriate software/hardware and embedded system working knowledge
• 10+ Year’s experience in OEM automotive product design (audio systems preferred)
• Vehicle communication bus experience CAN, Ethernet, A2B
• Onboard communication busses such as, I2C, (O, Q)SPI, TDM, UART
• Software development, debugging, and validation experience
• In-Depth understanding of the automotive product design and development process
• Solid background in using development tools for requirements management and system design
• Ability to communicate architecture concepts and ideas persuasively and concisely to all levels of the business
• Good written and verbal communication in English
• Flexible in terms of tasks and responsibility
• Ability to build relations and work independently
• Self-motivated, passionate about audio and high sense of responsibility

What is Nice to Have:

• Ideal candidate has experience working as an audio, infotainment, or other automotive module engineer with automotive OEM customers
• Automotive systems experience
• Embedded system design experience or familiarity
• Desired to have exposure on Embedded system software development
• Experience working with automotive OEM in an embedded system development
• TS16949 and familiarity desired on tools for DFMEA like APIS, Siemens Team Center

What Makes You Eligible:

• Willingness to travel 10% of the time.
• Willingness to travel to customer locations when requested

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.