Lead Principal Engineer – Connectivity
| Company | HARMAN International |
|---|---|
| Location | Novi, MI, USA, Sunnyvale, CA, USA |
| Salary | $142500 – $209000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Master’s |
| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 10+ years in wireless system development for Automotive or IoT.
- 5+ years automotive program experience, ideally car marker experience who could provide OEM use case aspect.
- Master or above of Electronics or computing Engineering
- Skilled in Wireless & RF system concept inc. V2X, Cellular (LTE, 5G) and network.
- Experience in define system requirements, feature, use case for product definition.
- Strong communication and presentation skills and capabilities for OEM customer technical discussion and presentation.
- Broad technical and methodical knowledge
- Ability to engage and involve stakeholders, spread globally, for concept collaboration.
- Willing to travel to customers and business partners and other SBU locations per business need.
Responsibilities
- Support technology and OEM customer technical evaluations.
- Assist in product and feature definition.
- Contribute to the development of technology roadmaps, standards, and wireless/RF concepts.
- Support business development and customer RFx activities.
- Evaluate and prepare technical proposals.
- Conduct benchmarking activities.
- Collaborate with internal teams from various functions, including Antenna, Hardware, Mechanical, System and Software Architects, Product Management, Supply Chain, and Business Development.
- Drive innovation of new wireless design approaches for upcoming connected vehicle feature and requirements.
- Guide the team with skillset overlapping wireless elements and mechanical competence, accounting for vehicle architecture and mechanicals to provide optimal connectivity performance.
- Evaluate market and technology trends and collaborate with Hardware and Mechanical team to optimize the design of the overall solution.
- Collaboration with the external business partners in NA to lead the roadmap discussion and industry standards.
- Support business activities including battleplan sessions and product strategy with business development and CAM team.
- Implement and facilitate PoC/ technical evals and demos with customers to showcase Harman capabilities.
- Drive and support customer RFI/RFQ engagements in NA area in close collaboration with Product Management, Business Development and CAMs.
- Drive the cost optimization ideas and concept from overall system aspect and use case aspect.
- Lead the product benchmarking activities including evaluation against industry standards.
- Provide SME view to the product management teams to address industry and market trends, as well as introduction of new technologies and features.
- Drive and closely collaborate with Wireless module team to work on platform approach of reusable wireless components that can be used for future programs.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading global and virtual teams
- Experience from OEM
- Members of wireless standard (such as 3GPP, 5GAA etc.)
- Additional language skills.