Principal Engineer, DSP

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 Principal DSP Software Engineer you will work on products that will be developed for OEM automotive amplifiers and other similar audio processing products.  Products typically consist of a microcontroller for configuration, communication and control and a DSP processor for audio processing.  Software development work will be mainly working within complex, multi-threaded, multi-processor or multi-core architectures and audio frameworks to integrate DSP algorithms and control structures.

Your Team

This position does not have any direct or indirect reports; but principal level engineers are expected to mentor more junior engineers and help guide their careers and activities.

What You Will Do

• Develop and integrate audio DSP algorithms for the automotive environment

• Co-develop and/or work within complex, multi-threaded, multi-processor architectures and audio frameworks to integrate DSP algorithms and control structures

• Develop production ready software following a defined software development process

• Design software features and architectures for an audio amplifier platform based on interpretation of customer requirements and/or technology development initiatives

• Resolve design conflicts arising from multiple requirement sources and maximize code re-use, flexibility and scalability

• Conceptualize multiple use cases to design a single system to suit many uses

• Analyze and resolve incompatibility and conflicts between individual DSP algorithms under various modes of system operation

• Estimate processing resources including MIPS, ROM and RAM

• Optimize individual algorithms and total system performance

• Analyze performance impacts of block size, sample rate, memory organization, cache usage and code structure

• Analyze multiple approaches to a problem and chose the best solution based on experience and sound engineering practices

• Present and defend technical decisions to peers and engineering management using facts

• Integrate DSP algorithms with an audio framework, control software and tuning structure and extend the framework as necessary

• Ensure all system components are diagnosable during development and once deployed

• Work closely with other engineering groups to ensure total tuned system performance

• Develop test plans and appropriate test vectors for independent validation of audio features

• Perform regression and integration tests on audio features and systems

• Create models and documentation suitable for other developers to create an implementation

• Reverse-engineer designs from legacy software

• Drive peer review of designs. Be an expert authority in reviews of team member contributions

• Supervise and review contributions from the development team

• Provide estimates of group programming effort to size the scope of projects

• Port and optimize DSP algorithms to various processors and make use of available resources, peripherals, accelerators, compiler features, etc

• Investigate new DSP audio related technologies and best practices

• Create novel software solutions to issues in audio & acoustic systems

• Work with software team leaders to negotiate resolution of issues

• Establish and coordinate activities with third party developers and contractors

• Communicate with peers inside the HARMAN group to coordinate software development. This includes occasional travel for training or coordination with other groups

• Manage small projects and technical resources, including planning, estimating and follow through

• Engineer convincing quick-turn demos using available hardware and software components

What You Need

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical enginee