Principal Engineer, DSP

Introduction: A Career at HARMAN Automotive

We’re a global, multi-disciplinary team that’s putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. At HARMAN Automotive, we give you the keys to fast-track your career.

• Engineer audio systems and integrated technology platforms that augment the driving experience.

• Combine ingenuity, in-depth research, and a spirit of collaboration with design and engineering excellence.

• Advance in-vehicle infotainment, safety, efficiency, and enjoyment.

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.

What You Will Do

• Develop and integrate audio DSP algorithms within complex, multi-threaded, multi-processor architectures and control structures for the automotive environment.

• Develop production ready software following a defined software development process.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Support new RFQs & Engineering change request estimations and technical feasibility.

• Investigate new DSP audio related technologies and best practices.

• Lead DSP projects and technical resources, including planning, estimating, feature roll out planning and follow through.

What You Need to be Successful

• Bachelor’s /master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer science, or equivalent.

• 12+ years of embedded software development or testing.

• 12+ years of C/C++ or other structured language.

• 8+ years of experience in the DSP and/or audio field.

• Deep knowledge of filtering, speech processing, noise control and telecommunications algorithms in both time and frequency domains.

• Strong understanding of DSP frameworks and how individual DSP algorithms interface and interact with each other, the control software and tool interfaces in an optimized way.

• Experience with tuning/calibrating systems of algorithms.

• Expert in several embedded system debuggers, emulators, compilers, etc.

• Working knowledge of embedded operating systems (schedulers, memory management, driver models, RTOS concepts.

• Experienced working with and/or leading offshore development teams.

• Creative problem-solver capable of creating and reproducing complex software defects.

• Able to read schematics and debug analog and digital hardware.

Bonus Points if You Have

• Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.

• Experience with multi-core System-on-Chip processors.

• Experience with SPICE compatible software development practices.

• Expert in MATLAB and Simulink.

• Deep knowledge of digital communication protocols: I2C, I2S, SPI, UART, USB, BT.

• Working knowledge of automotive networks: CAN, LIN, Ethernet, TCP/IP, MOST.

• Deep knowledge of audio systems and acoustic principles.

• Very good knowledge of amplifier hardware concepts including data converters, power supplies, output stages and analog filter design.

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel up to 10% domestic and international travel.

• Be willing to work from office in Bangalore, India.

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.

• 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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