System 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

As a Senior Software Architect in HARMAN Automotive Engineering Services (AES), you will play a crucial role in the team, you will be responsible for ensuring the Design and Architecture of the System, understanding Applications, Middleware, Services in platform and guiding the overall technical vision and architecture of software systems within vehicles. Drive System analysis, design and development of scalable, robust, and secure software solutions, ensuring seamless integration with hardware and other vehicle systems. This role also involves mentoring engineering teams, contributing to software development, best practices, and staying abreast of emerging technologies in the automotive space. 

Your Team

This role will collaborate Internal and external (customer) Architects and does not have any direct reports. However, as an Automotive System Architect, you will collaborate closely with a team of professionals, software developers, and technical specialists working on architecture, performance analysis, and stability optimization of embedded automotive infotainment systems built on Integrated Digital cockpit platform running multiple OS. You will work in a cross-functional capacity, partnering with stakeholders from different departments to ensure the effective solutions of system team as needed.

What You Will Do

• Act as a Technical leader and support Development teams towards deriving solutions and unblock potential System showstoppers.
• Act as Customer interface towards offering custom solutions, making Design decisions and participate in Workshops, technical meetings as needed. Travel to Customer locations as needed.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, trends, and regulations, and provide expertise.
• Conduct technical discussions and carry out workshops with Customer and Third Parties for System blockers. Conduct FTA, reviews.
• Technical Product Ownership System team Stability / performance specifications based on customer and other stakeholders’ specifications to capture clearly and concisely what is required of the product.
• Drive system stability related topics and KPI related optimization topics across the system to achieve customer goals.
• RAM/ CPU optimization to improve the produce quality and performance
• Documents and maintain stability progress and discuss and update customer on regular basis Identifies risk level associated with product stability due to new feature implementation.
• Champions problem solving/lessons learned for assigned program(s)/domain(s)
• Support team to converge on analysis of system performance (CPU, RAM, IPC latency, CAN throughput) and identify bottlenecks or inefficiencies.
• Lead the resolution of customer-reported performance issues through in-depth diagnostics and collaborative troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with suppliers, provide technical leadership for integration tasks, and validate third-party software deliverables.
• Perform detailed root cause analysis of stability-related issues arising from endurance, stability, and long-run tests, and ensure thorough tracking and closure of associated tickets.
• Utilize IPC mechanisms such as D-Bus for efficient communication across components and services.
• Analyze and fix issues in runtime environments, including kernel panics, memory leaks, race conditions, and deadlocks using tools like gdb, perf, DLT Viewer, memory profilers, and hardware debugging instruments.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the team on best practices and architectural design considerations and actively contribute to architectural/code reviews and best practices.
• Hands-on with multi-threaded application design, synchronization techniques, and real-time scheduling.
• Use UML design tools such as MagicDraw, Enterprise Architect, or IBM Rhapsody to document, model, and communicate system architecture and design.
• Apply strong object-oriented (OO) design principles and patterns in software architecture and module definition.

What You Need

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, or a relevant technical discipline.
• In-depth knowledge of automotive network protocols (CAN, Ethernet), ECU communication, and software architectures.
• In-depth knowledge of automotive software architectures with working knowledge in System domain.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and hands on experience on Automotive Embedded Systems – Linux, QNX or Integrity RTOS
• Excellent in System issue triaging for Stability and Performance topics
• Experience in designing and implementing Cockpit solutions for IVI and Cluster for automotive systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Experience with Agile software development ecosystem

What is Nice to Have

• Experience in Hypervisor /Multivisor environment is a plus
• Experience in managing external and internal vendors / partners
• Experience in Automotive Safety(FUSA) a plus
• Experience in CyberSecurity a plus
• Working within ASPICE-compliant projects

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel up to 10%, domestic and international travel
• Be willing to travel to Customer site location as needed
• Contribute to continuous improvement of HARMAN’s architecture design processes

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.