What are the responsibilities and job description for the Automotive Software Architect position at Harman International?
Location:
Novi - Michigan, USA - Cabot Drive
Job Family:
Engineering
Worker Type Reference:
Regular - Permanent
Pay Rate Type:
Salary
Career Level:
T4
Job ID:
R-42862-2025
Description & Requirements
About the Role
HARMAN Automotive Engineering Services (AES) offers vehicle OEMs the complete lifecycle of software development, including consulting on industry trends and assessing planned architectures, and software-defined vehicle architecture development.
The Presales, Strategy and Partnerships team is looking for an experienced Automotive Software Architect with expert technical knowledge of vehicle software, combined with deep experience with architecture tools and processes, and a passion for innovating the next generation of consumer automotive experiences. The Automotive Software Architect will act as technical lead during business development and presales for our OEM customers, as they evolve their architectures to support software-defined vehicles.
Responsibilities
- Work with HARMAN’s OEM customers to advise on and develop vehicle architectures, considering industry trends in software-defined vehicles.
- Act as a technical leader within cross-functional teams, both during presales and project delivery.
- Help drive competence development within the AES Architecture Community by researching and presenting latest technologies.
- Work with Sales to produce marketing collateral, participate in events, and do proactive business development.
Needed Qualifications
- Experienced in business development/presales of vehicle software engineering projects, including proactive pitches to customers and responding to RFXs.
- Possess general knowledge of vehicle E/E architectures and trends such as central zonal architectures and high-performance computing platforms.
- Familiar with software-defined vehicle technologies and enablers including hypervisors, containers, OTA SW updates, heterogenous workload orchestration, service-oriented architectures, vehicle abstraction and digital twins.
- Familiar with model-based system and software engineering with SysML or UML.
- Able to communicate ideas clearly, through writing, speaking, and diagramming.
- Fluent spoken and written English.
Preferred Experience
- ISO 26262 Functional Safety projects.
- ASPICE-compliant projects.
- Agile frameworks such as SAFe.
- Requirements engineering.
- Embedded real-time and general-purpose operating systems, including AUTOSAR Classic and Adaptive, QNX, Linux, Android Automotive.
- Hardware safety and security features such as safety islands, HSMs and TEEs.
- Diagnostics protocols, power management, distributed logging, system performance optimization.
What Makes You Eligible
- Be willing to travel, domestic and international
- Be willing to work in the HARMAN office in Novi, MI (at least twice per month), client site, or remotely from home, as needed by the business
Pay Transparency
$ 120,750 - $ 177,100
Dependent on the position offered, other forms of compensation are also available, such as bonuses or commission.
Pay is based on a wide range of factors, including, without limitation, skill set, experience, training, location, and business need. While the above range is a reasonable estimate of the wage range for this position, please note the disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographical differential associated with the location where the position may be filled.
Benefits
HARMAN is interested in the health and wellbeing of you and your family and offers a range of benefits designed to support your needs for holistic wellbeing. Benefits and perks may vary depending on the nature of your employment with HARMAN, and may include paid vacation and holidays, paid sick leave, volunteer leave, and paid bonding and care giver leave. Employees may also be eligible to participate in comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, fertility support and adoption assistance, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan with employer match, short and long term disability coverage, life insurance, and more.
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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.
Salary : $120,750 - $177,100
