Senior Engineer, SW 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

In this role you would be working on software development work, that will be mainly working within complex, multi-thread, multi-processor architectures, and audio frameworks to integrate DSP algorithms and control structures. Products that will be developed are OEM automotive amplifiers and other similar audio processing products. Products typically consist of the main microcontroller for configuration, communication, and control and a DSP processor for audio processing.

Your Team

This role does not have any direct reports. However, providing technical leadership and mentoring to less experienced engineers and interns/co-ops is expected.

What You Will Do

• You would be responsible for developing production-ready software following a defined software development process.
• Analyze specifications, develop unit designs, develop unit test plans, integrate of test plans and verify functionality.
• Develop, integrate, Port, and Optimize audio DSP algorithms for different DSPs in the Audio Amplifier product line.
• Co-develop and/or work within complex, multi-thread, multi-processor architectures, and audio frameworks to integrate DSP algorithms and control structures.
• Analyze existing external and internal object-oriented, embedded software to add features, make modifications, and/or port to different platforms, and DSPs.
• Monitor and evaluate new software technologies suitable for applications in embedded systems.
• Analyze customer and internal requirements and specifications and translates these into software requirements, SW designs and implement/code and test for defined Quality and performance levels.
• Work with off-shore and global development teams for efficient co-development work and coordinate with customers and other local customer teams.

What You Need

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• 5 years of microcontroller embedded software development (C / C ) or testing
• Experience developing and debugging software in a real-time, embedded, multiprocessor, multi-interface environment.
• Experience with software and hardware development tools (IDE, debugger's, emulators, compilers, EVMs, etc)
• Working knowledge of embedded operating systems (schedulers, memory management, driver models, RTOS concepts, etc.)
• Creative problem-solver capable of creating and reproducing complex software defects.

What is Nice to Have

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• Specific experience in digital signal processing, fixed point and floating-point DSP programming, audio engineering, acoustic engineering, psycho-acoustics, and recording arts.
• Working knowledge of filtering, speech processing, noise control, and telecommunications algorithms.
• Experienced with assembly language programming in DSP.
• Working knowledge of digital communication protocols: I2C, I2S, SPI, UART, USB, BT
• Working knowledge of automotive networks: CAN, LIN, Ethernet, TCP/IP, MOST
• Experience developing and debugging Java software applications (JDK, Eclipse)
• Specific experience in digital signal processing, fixed point and floating-point DSP programming, audio engineering, acoustic engineering, psycho-acoustics, and recording arts.

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel up to 5%, domestic only
• Be willing to work in an office in Novi MI (hybrid)
• Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment

What We Offer

• Flexible work environment, allowing for full-time remote work globally for positions that can be performed outside a HARMAN or customer location
• 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
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Access to HARMAN Campus Fitness Center and Cafeteria
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development

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HARMAN is an Equal Opportunity /Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin,disability or Protected Veterans status. HARMAN offers a great work environment, challenging career opportunities, professional training and competitive compensation. (www.harman.com)