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.
Job Description:
As a System Performance Expert you are responsible for managing all aspects of system performance: From architectural design down to debugging & pre-analyzing of measurement results & defects occurring in the system during the development lifecycle. You are responsible for the specification of Key Performing Indicators of our systems to meet the customer expectations and in an overarching function, you leads the cross-domain teams to achieve the performance goals.
What You Will Do
- Define generally applicable policies in the area of system performance and implement appropriate model features and extensions in the System and Software Architecture Model
- Develop and maintain performance related best practices, methods and tools
- Ensure alignment within Harman and with customer, 3rd parties and automotive standards
- Define and maintain concepts in the project architectural designs to achieve performance targets
- Use, validate and improve the performance specific trace & debug architecture & tools
- Drive clarification of performance requirements with domain stakeholders to ensure sustainable solutions
- Define resource budgets according to the architectural design
- Define reliable methods and use cases to verify performance KPIs continuously and automatically
- Agree on suitable trace markers and use cases with SW domains in order to ensure reliable and automated KPI measurements
- Ensure continuous KPI test execution and evaluate the results
- Assign performance findings to the appropriate SW domain and align results with customer
- Support and instruct SW domain specialists to improve their sub-system architecture design in terms of performance
- Provide solution proposals for errors where applicable, actively steering the bug-fixing by technical coordination of all involved parties with multiple dependencies
- Provide reports of the results and suitable action plans on demand to project management and to the customer
- Provide performance statistics to the teams
- Review SW code and design concepts
- Apply state-of-the-art methods to ensure and optimize SW quality
What You Need
- Master degree in computer science or equivalent
- Track record with minimum 5-10 years of experience in embedded systems or projects of comparable complexity as automotive infotainment
- 5 years of professional experience in software development with focus on embedded Linux systems
- Profound knowledge of model-based software architecture and design tools
- Practical experience in coordinating engineering teams
- Experience in system introspection, especially system monitoring
- Proven knowledge of Trace & Debugging tools & architecture
- Proven experience in Linux methods of assigning and monitoring system resources
- Profound knowledge of Linux kernel concepts with respect to system performance
- Proven experience in SW performance evaluation & problem solving
- Professional skills in C/C++ and shell programming, Python is beneficial
- Good communication and technical presentation skills
- Fluent English communication skills both written and verbal
What We Offer
- HARMAN offers a diverse and inclusive work environment that fosters and encourages career development opportunities, professional training and competitive market base compensation
- You will also receive top-notch employee discounts on Harman’s Consumer Audio (JBL, AKG, HARMAN Kardon) and Samsung products
- Flexible work schedule with a culture encouraging work life integration and collaboration in a global friendly working atmosphere and good work-life-balance
- Attractive salary package based on the Metall & Elektro Tarif Baden Wurttemberg and an Employer contribution towards a company pension plan
- Professional development opportunities through H