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 Lead Functional Safety Engineer will guide the Harman software, hardware, manufacturing, and test teams to ensure that all needed Safety properties are considered, implemented, and validated before launching the HARMAN product for customer GM in-vehicle deployment. This is the first product at HARMAN to fulfill the highest level of Safety requirements: ASIL D and fail operational.

In this cross-divisional function you will be the primary contact for Functional Safety towards the customer and continuously report the status to the overall HARMAN program management. Based on your broad experience you will prepare and propose appropriate measures to protect HARMAN from liability risks related to Functional Safety. This includes active risk management with parallel escalation path to HARMAN Automotive Senior Leadership Team, also paying attention to the significant lifetime sales.

What You Will Do

• Conduct Safety Management for an ASIL D customer application project including continuous planning and reporting of the functional Safety activities and status.

• Actively drive risk management and if necessary, prepare and follow measures to closure.

• Elicit, document, and review Functional Safety requirements (ASIL) in line with architectural definition: external with customer and supplier; internal with HARMAN engineering disciplines.

• Consult our customer for design pattern which enable ASIL D performance of fail operational systems.

• Execute Safety analyses according target architectures and determine Safety performance.

• Guide the SW and HW development teams for effective Safety engineering.

• Plan & assess the product development status for functional safety at various stages of the product lifecycle.   

• Consider machine learning aspects for Functional Safety requirements and methods.

• Consider and align Functional Safety needs with Cyber-Security solutions.

• Derive and align the necessary verification and validation activities with internal and external partners.

• Take drive and leadership to continuously improve engineering workflows based on state-of-the-art tools for Safety & Cyber-Security in relation to the framework including a scalable Safety Mechanism portfolio.

What You Need to Be Successful

• Master’s degree in engineering, computer science, or equivalent.

• Mature experience (>10 years)  in building and maintaining customer, supplier relationships combined with strong technical leadership capabilities on the subject matter Functional Safety.  

• Proven team player skills, effectively working in global organizational settings with excellent communication skills including the capability to address the senior management level.

• Profound experience in Safety critical systems and the related standards (ISO26262, ISO21434, ISO21448), best known methodologies to implement Safety properties up to ASIL D and fail operational.

• Profound knowledge in Systems-Theoretic-Process-Analysis, Functional Safety analyses FTA, FMEDA, DFA, FMEA and Hazard and Risk Analyses etc.

• Methodical, structured work style and experience in translating strategies into actionable plans.

What Makes You Eligible

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

What We Offer

• Flexible work environment with a culture encouraging work-life integration and collaboration in a global environment.

• Access to employee discounts on world-class HARMAN/Samsung products (JBL, Harman Kardon, AKG etc.).

• Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University.

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

• “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program.

• Work on best-in-class emerging technologies and an atmosphere that motivates you to give your best.

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.