Principal System 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 position is within HARMAN’s Automotive Engineering department, the primary responsibility is to provide hardware and software applications support of audio systems and drive solutions for improving vehicle system-level interactions. Also, the position will be the bridge between the customer and internal engineering teams. The Engineering team is looking for the ultimate team player that thinks positive, loves customers, and can manage projects independently. The successful candidate will be highly flexible in finding solutions for our customer’s needs and will have a demonstrated track record of success with audio systems engineering and customer facing interaction.

What You Will Do

• Single point customer interface for Engineering project and technical issues
  • Main electrical and software engineering interface between Harman Engineering and customer.
  • Serve at the Technical Contact to customer for initial technical discussions to achieve fast customer response and maintain customer relationship.
  • Create and present problem-solving documents to the customer (5 Phase, Fishbone, Is/Is Not).
  • Lead/Present first level technical discussions during customer meetings.
  • Lead/coordinate Engineering disciplines to create customer presentations that are high quality and meet customer expectations (Technical, Project, Problem Solving).

• Coordinate engineering changes between Harman and customer.
  • Work with Harman Program Managers to establish Engineering deliverables/milestones required to meet timing.
  • Work with Resident Engineers to track progress in customer Engineering change system to meet deliverables.

• Coordinate between internal Harman Engineering departments.
  • Oversees projects from a technical perspective and intervenes to ensure customer and internal requirements are met.
  • Lead Harman internal alignment meetings to ensure voice of the customer is understood and considered.

What You Need

• At least 10 years of Engineering experience.
• Design Engineering experience in Hardware or/and Software around SoC, MCU, and DSP, using electronic communication busses such as A2B, CAN, AVB, I2C, etc
• Willing to work with global team, good communicator to customer and internal teams.
• Ability to create Structured Problem-Solving documents (8-D, 5- PHASE, Fault Tree Analysis, Fish Bone Analysis, Is/Is Not).
• Ability to work autonomously and operate with limited guidance/supervision.
• Fluent communication in Japanese and English

What is Nice to Have

• Design experience in automotive electronics.
• Experience working at an automotive Tier 1.
• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Experience in Audio Amplifier design.
• Participation in or having led product launches.

What Makes You Eligible

• Willingness to travel 10% of the time.
• Willingness to work at local Harman office in Nagoya / Ariake
• Successfully complete a background investigation/Aptitude Test as a condition of employment.

What We Offer

• We offer an authentic diverse, equal, and inclusive work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development in a truly global organization.
• You will work on products and services that touch people’s lives and will change the industrial standards, being a part of the transformations in our industry.
• Our work environments are fast paced, challenging, empowering, collaborative, flexible and exciting.
• We offer our own HARMAN University with regular updates on the new technologies and trends by utilizing various sessions organized by Self Learning and Development Trainings to help grow and advance talent.
• We offer competitive compensation/benefit programs and recognition programs.

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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.