Job Description

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

We are seeking a talented and motivated Principal Embedded Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in embedded software development and audio technology with a passion for creating high-quality audio experiences and will be responsible for defining the software platforms, technical roadmap, developing innovative solutions, and collaborating with project teams to create audio solutions.

Your Team

This role will be responsible for working with the technology platforms team.

What You Will Do

Principal DSP Engineer will be a member of the Platform Engineering team, working on DSP algorithm design and development and new algorithm learning for audio products, prefer to have software architecture / framework design for audio products. Collaborating with team on the high-level design to meet the business goals in terms of time, quality, and cost. Keep track of the latest technological update of connectivity technology. Collaborate with other professionals efficiently and clearly to develop technical requirement for software system or applications. Work on the software architecture or high-level design with end-to-end solution to meet platform requirements. Provide technical guidance to the team in software design, architecture and implementation. Ensure software meets all requirements of quality, security, modularity, extensibility, certification, etc.

What You Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Audio Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on development experience in audio algorithm development and familiar with deep learning audio algorithms (CNN/RNN/Transformer/TCN/Diffusion), and proficient in fixed point quantization, pruning, distillation, and instruction set optimization of algorithms on ARM/DSP/MCU platforms, and experienced with algorithm structure, audio chain restructuring and algorithm optimization.
• Proficient in C/C++, Python, MATLAB, PyTorch, and Tensorflow.
• Proven experience in audio software and hardware platform development.
• Understand real-time audio DSP libraries and frameworks.
• Familiarity with audio codecs, streaming protocols, and audio file formats.
• Knowledge of audio hardware interfaces (e.g., I2S, SPDIF, USB, HDMI).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Professional in working with ARM / Linux / Android / RTOS systems, including Amlogic, MTK, Qualcomm, Realtek, BES, ADI, Rockchip, AKM, Cirrus Logic.
• Experienced in pre-processing and post-processing audio algorithms.

What is Nice to Have

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Audio Engineering, or a related field
• Overall 12+ years of engineering experience with 10+ years of technical management
• Software design/architecture patterns knowledge. Experience in firmware development, skillful debugging, and issue/performance analysis with wireless protocol analyzers.
• Multi-radio coexistence management experience, and a solid understanding of wireless connectivity protocols and standards.
• Demonstrated business acumen with ability to engage with partners, whether customers or vendors at strategic level
• Prefer to have Windows development experience.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel up to 15%, domestic and international travel
• Willingness to work in an office

• Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment

What We Offer

• 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
• 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 torace, 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.