Principal Engineer Functional Safety

A Career at HARMAN Automotive

We’re a global, multi-disciplinary team that’s putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. At HARMAN Automotive, we give you the keys to fast-track your career.

• Engineer audio systems and integrated technology platforms that augment the driving experience

• Combine ingenuity, in-depth research, and a spirit of collaboration with design and engineering excellence

• Advance in-vehicle infotainment, safety, efficiency, and enjoyment

About the role
You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to develop the future HARMAN automotive products and provide technical leadership and mentoring to functional safety engineers within projects and across the global safety community. You bring in your passion and experience to meet the challenging aspects of robustness and functional safety properties to HARMAN domain controller, display and connectivity solutions.

What You Will Do

• Elicit, document and review for functional safety requirements (ASIL) with the customer and other engineering disciplines in line with the architectural definition

• Determine the safety performance and execute safety analyses according to the target architecture

• Consider machine learning aspects for Functional Safety requirements and methods

• Consider and align Functional Safety needs with Cyber-Security solutions

• Technically coordinate and mentor functional safety engineers within assigned projects, ensuring high-quality safety deliverables and technical consistency.

• Derive and align the necessary verification and validation activities with internal and external partners

• Conduct Safety Management for platform and customer application projects, prepare and report the functional safety status

• Define and coordinate measures to ensure the needed safety properties according to product targets

• Take the drive and leadership to continuously improve engineering workflows based on state-of-the-art tools for Safety & Cyber-Security in relation to the framework, including a scalable Safety mechanism portfolio

• Develop Safety concept strategies for future products,s starting from the definition of system safety needs of a vehicle manufacturer

• Drive and lead Safety integration concepts with development partners from Harman and evaluate safety capabilities of complex supply parts based on “Assumption of Use”

• Review and guide safety analyses, safety concepts, and customer-facing safety work products prepared by less experienced engineers

What You Need

• Master's or bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or equivalent

• Mature experience in building and maintaining customer and supplier relationships

• Strong technical leadership capabilities

• Proven team player to effectively work in a global environment with all levels of a global matrixed organisation

• Profound on safety-critical systems and related standards (SOTIF & ISO26262)

• Profound knowledge in Systems-Theoretic-Process-Analysis, Safety Analysis, Functional Safety analysis, FTA, FMEDA, FMEA, Hazard and Risk Analysis, etc., Safety for Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Experience and profound knowledge of multimodal sensor data handling for perception and fusion principles

• Proven experience in technical coordination and coaching functional safety engineers within safety-critical projects.

• Profound understanding of model-based development and state-of-the-art tools for Safety & Cyber-Security

• Methodical, structured work style and experienced in translating strategies into actionable plans

• The capability of simultaneous handling of multiple projects and initiatives, and executing to completion

• Excellent communication, presentation & interpersonal skills

What is Nice to Have

• Electrical product design or engineering experience

• Experience of failure analysis for an electrical product

• Experience in pilot factory process & quality management

• Experience in Product life cycle management: Development, Operation, Service or Maintenance

• Proven experience in project management and resource management skills

• Experience in system/hardware/software level product development

• Proven experience in the development of products in compliance with the standard ASPICE

• Hands-on experience in implementing ASIL-compliant systems in accordance with ISO26262

• Experience with safety analysis (e.g., FMEA, FMEDA, FTA, HAZOP, DFA-CCFA)

• Knowledge of FUSA qualification on software tools, components and evaluation of hardware components

• Understand the requirements, architecture, design and methodologies in the field of the automotive domain

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel internationally up to 10% of the time, depending on project necessities

What We Offer

• Flexible work environment

• 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

• “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program

• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development

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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.