Associate Engineer, Embedded Software

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:
We are looking for a Software Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Android Framework (AOSP/AAOS) to develop, integrate, debug, and maintain platform features for automotive products. The candidate will work closely with system, middleware, and application teams to deliver stable and performant platform functionality.

What You Will Do

• Develop and maintain Android Framework and System Services (e.g., framework/base, services, system_server components).
• Debug complex platform issues using logcat, traces (systrace/perfetto), tombstones, ANR traces, and native crash analysis.
• Integrate and support Automotive Android components (AAOS) and collaborate with HAL teams (AIDL/HIDL), including VHAL where applicable.
• Work on multi-user, power management, input, display/multi-display, and system performance optimizations (as per product needs).
• Ensure platform quality via unit/instrumentation tests and Android compatibility validation (CTS/VTS as applicable).
• Drive code quality through design reviews, code reviews, static analysis compliance, and CI improvements.
• Participate in triage of customer issues, root cause analysis (RCA), and upstream/downstream patch management.

What You Need to be Successful

• Strong programming skills in Java/Kotlin and C/C++.
• Hands-on experience with Android Framework internals (Binder, system services, permissions model, build system).
• Good understanding of Android build and tooling (Soong/Gradle, repo/git, debugging toolchain).
• Experience with Linux fundamentals and OS concepts (processes/threads, memory, IPC, scheduling basics).
• Solid debugging skills across Java + native layers; comfortable reading AOSP source and tracing call flows.
• Experience working in a structured delivery environment (defect tracking, code review, CI/CD, release branches).

What is Nice to Have

• AAOS experience (CarService, Car APIs, VHAL, multi-display automotive use cases).
• Experience with SELinux policy debugging, init/rc services, and performance tuning on embedded targets.
• Familiarity with compliance/security practices and resolving static analysis findings.
• Experience with automotive product integration and collaboration across distributed teams.

What Makes You Eligible

• Strong ownership, analytical problem-solving, and communication across cross-functional teams.
• Ability to handle ambiguous issues, prioritize effectively, and deliver in release-driven timelines.

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

• Tuition reimbursement

• “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program.

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

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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.