Hardware Project Lead

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:

• The HW Project Leader (HW PL) is a member of a global HW development team to realize automotive IVI and telematics systems. They lead the HW development for OEM customer projects and coordinate all HW-related tasks acc. Harman BMS process and guidelines of Hardware Development or/and acts as a representative and assistance of the HW Project Manager
• She/he will be embedded in the Telematics Development Team inside the SBU Connectivity, reporting to the Team Leader of the Hardware Project Leader/Engineering Group or/and to the Director of Hardware Engineering

What You Will Do:

• Technical lead hardware development projects in the field of automotive infotainment (optional: with safety criteria)
  - which includes the technical lead of the local HW project team, steering of the project team in remote locations (Bucharest, Shanghai) in close cooperation to the local managers
  - and acts as the customer interface for Hardware topics
• Representative of Hardware Project Manager (HW PM) in internal and external meetings (customer, suppliers)
• Assistance/Support of HW PM in the conception, the commercial evaluation, and the provision of technical specifications, documentation, and presentation material for Telematics- and Connectivity function blocks and products
• Support in the realization of the Hardware Development Process acc. Harman BMS and guidelines of SBU Hardware Development
• Support/Perform Requirement Engineering (Doors, DNG, ALM), Change Management, documentation, DFMEA, … under Harman Tools
• Perform the analysis, evaluation, and feasibility of customer requirements and special OEM specifications for RFC, RFI, RFQ and CRs, BOM estimates and calculation, effort estimation, and technical support for risk management
• Perform the analysis of cost-down measures to achieve HW BOM targets
• Realization of system designs, schematics and/or schematics integration of hardware applications and functional blocks/modules for In-Vehicle Infotainment Systems in the range of simple to medium complexity under consideration of Harman guidelines during the complete development process
• Global cooperation with other departments such as Construction, Quality, Manufacturing, and Software during the development process
• Maintenance support
• Technical support for internal and/or external staff in the industrialization of functional items in an international environment (e.g. ODM, EMS suppliers)
• Analysis of the customer specification, generation of related work packages (design and verification), and performing design reviews for each development stage
• Collect, analyze, and prepare all relevant project data for the project status and report project status to management level
• Execution of special projects on behalf of the disciplinary superior

What You Need:

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in engineering (Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, or appropriate graduation)
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in the HW development, verification, and industrialization of In-vehicle Infotainment systems or other automotive ECUs of similar complexity level
• Experience in project management
• Experience as technical lead of HW team
• Experience in requirements management (e.g. DOORS, DNG, ALM) beneficial as well as Microsoft applications
• Structured and result-oriented working style
• Ability of teamwork with internal/external teams
• Good knowledge of spoken and written English

Beneficial Qualifications

• Experience in the development of analog, digital, and RF designs, especially in wireless applications (e.g., mobile network technologies) and/or telematics systems
• Experience in requirements management (e.g. DOORS, DNG, ALM) beneficial

Eligibility Requirements

• Willingness to travel to Germany & internationally on demand (around 10-25%)

What we offer 

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