Principal Perception Systems Engineer

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 is a role within the HARMAN Automotive Ready Care R&D team. An industry-first, HARMAN Ready Care manages your in-vehicle activity by monitoring your eyes, mind and vitals to enable improved driver and occupant mobility experiences, focusing on safety and wellbeing.

As a Principal Perception Systems Engineer, you will leverage your strong technical and programming skills to develop novel camera-based deep learning solutions. The job leverages your expertise in camera pipelines, computer vision and perception systems to ensure the performance and validation of perception features. You will work within the broader R&D organization, collaborating with various teams to optimize and validate camera-based features, to help bring new in-cabin experiences to market.

What You Will Do

• Identify optimal algorithmic solutions that meet perception feature requirements using best practice development methodologies

• Quantify the impact of image sensor and camera pipeline specifications on deep learning-based perception systems

• Define performance metrics and perform quantitative analysis of the perception system performance

• Design experiments and perform data collections with various sensor configurations, sensors and optics to understand various architectural trade-offs

What You Need

• Master’s degree in a relevant area: electronics, computer science, electrical engineering, etc.

• 7+ years of relevant experience

• Strong C++ and python programming skills

• Strong conceptual understanding of camera pipelines, computer vision, deep learning, and statistical analysis

• Hands-on experience working with image sensors / camera systems as a part of design and development of vision-based solutions

What is Nice to Have

• Experience defining requirements towards camera pipelines based on feature/solution experience

• Experience in automotive product development

• Experience in deploying and optimizing complex AI-based applications on embedded platforms such as NVIDIA Jetson, Samsung Exynos, and Qualcomm Snapdragon

What We Offer

• Access to employee discounts on world-class Samsung and HARMAN products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, etc.)

• Extensive training opportunities through HARMAN University

• 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.