What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Engineer – Embedded Software position at HARMAN International?
About The Role
This position is for a Principal Engineer at Harman Pro, specializing in the development of firmware for Audio, Video, and Control products, with a strong focus on low-level development for microcontrollers and microprocessors. We seek a self-motivated individual who thrives in a collaborative global team environment and can engage across diverse functions, including firmware developers, hardware designers, product managers, and product validation engineers. This role is crucial for delivering innovative and feature-rich solutions to the Professional Audio, Video, and Control market.
What You Will Do
This position is for a Principal Engineer at Harman Pro, specializing in the development of firmware for Audio, Video, and Control products, with a strong focus on low-level development for microcontrollers and microprocessors. We seek a self-motivated individual who thrives in a collaborative global team environment and can engage across diverse functions, including firmware developers, hardware designers, product managers, and product validation engineers. This role is crucial for delivering innovative and feature-rich solutions to the Professional Audio, Video, and Control market.
What You Will Do
- Design and develop robust and reliable C/C firmware for Harman Pro audio, video and control products.
- Design and develop firmware for the configuration and management of complex, multi-processor products including power management, boot sequencing, signal amplification, inter-processor communications, sub-processor management, and firmware upgrade.
- Participate in the full lifecycle of product development including design, implementation, board bring-up, signal validation, hardware checkout, and product feature validation.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams including hardware, software, test, project and product management.
- Follow engineering standards and best practices for firmware development and code validation.
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science.
- 7 years of C/C programming on multi-threaded embedded platforms and products.
- 7 years of experience real-time OS’s such as FreeRTOS, Zephyr as well as experience with bare-metal firmware development.
- Experience developing firmware for embedded systems running Linux
- Experience with a broad range of communication channels including SPI, I2C, UART, I2S and Ethernet.
- Experience with different microcontroller and microprocessor architectures.
- Experience with low-level firmware debugging and signal validation via oscilloscope and logic analyzer.
- Strong commitment to adhering to all relevant functional policies and best practices and ensuring your work consistently reflects this commitment.
- Experience in task break-down, estimation and resource scheduling.
- Fluency in multiple programming and scripting languages such as Java and Python.
- Experience with NXP and ST microcontrollers.
- Experience with audio systems products and firmware.
- Experience with firmware build environments including cmake.
- Experience with data exchange methods such as JSON and XML.
- Understanding of digital signal concepts such as ADC, DAC, PWM.
- Experience working in a global matrixed organization.
- Experience using Atlassian Tools (Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket).
- Willingness to work in our office in Richardson, TX.
- Willingness for occasional travel.
- Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment
- Competitive wellness benefits and 401K Retirement Savings plan.
- An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages career development opportunities.
- Flexible work schedule with a culture encouraging work-life integration and collaboration in a global environment.
- Professional development opportunities through HARMAN University’s business and leadership academies and extensive course catalog.
- Tuition Reimbursement.
- Access to employee discounts on world-class HARMAN products (JBL, Harman/Kardon, etc.).
- “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program.
- An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development.