Software Architect

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 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.

In this Role you will be collaborating with other professionals to determine functional and non-functional requirements for new software or applications. Using tools and methodologies to create representations for functions and user interface of desired product, developing high-level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility.

What You Will Do

• Develop/Contribute in defining software design strategy for the area of responsibility (e.g. Project, Domain, BU ENG, Application)

• Identify architectural constraints for the architectural level (project, domain, application) based on technical and organisational requirements and decompose them to architectural levels below

• Develop software architecture for the assigned architectural level, fulfilling the architectural requirements

• Define, develop and verify that all interfaces to related SW architectural elements are complete

• Describe, evaluate and verify dynamic behaviour and interaction between the related SW architectural elements

• Analyse customer requirements and map them to existing architecture or extend the architecture, starting fromthe RFQ/RFI phase

• Analyse and address architecturally relevant non-functional requirements

• Ensure traceability and consistency with the system architecture and the software requirements

• Recommend implementation standards and design patterns that support information security and regulatory compliance objectives

• Document key technical requirements for our Telematic Software

• Customer contact for identifying and understanding architectural requirements

• Contribute to the Cybersecurity project efforts

• Support the Cybersecurity Manager in developing different technical work products

• Represent the project for Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA)

• Make risk treatment decisions

• Derive security requirements from TARA, and maintain the requirements specification for the cybersecurity concept

• Support RFI/RFQ response on cybersecurity activities

What You Need:

• Master's or Bachelor's degree in electrical,  computer engineering or a similar discipline

• Knowledge of embedded software, systems, and beyond.

• Proven technical leadership

• Ability to clearly communicate in English, both verbally and in writing

• Expert knowledge and experience in Software Architecture.

• Experience with design methods (e.g. UML or SysML)

• Modelling tools and languages

• Knowledge of process models (e.g. Automotive SPICE®, especially SWE.2)

• Analysis of requirements

• Ability to document comprehensively and concisely

• Decision-making and problem-solving ability

• Many years of experience in product development, embedded software and connectivity technologies

• Hands-on in C++ and is willing to get their hands dirty

• Good understanding of Linux OS kernel and user space.

• Experience in (embedded) Linux

• The high-level grasp of the technology and ability to understand customer wishes, make decisions, communicate these decisions, and control the technical direction of the project

What is Nice to Have

• Experience with infotainment systems

• Knowledge of Automotive Functional Safety (ISO 26262).

• Competent in Automotive Cybersecurity Engineering (ISO 21434)

• Competent in TARA methodologies

• Knowledge of cryptography applications in the automotive ecosystem

• Knowledge of secure coding standards.

• Experience in AUTOSAR, especially with AP, is a plus

• Knowledge of process models (e.g. Automotive SPICE®, especially SWE.2)

What Makes You Eligible

• Willingness to travel (20% of the time) and to work from the office, depending on the project necessities

What We Offer

• Flexible work environment

• 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

• “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program

• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development

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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.