Distinguished Technologist

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 youll discover that at HARMAN you can grow make a difference and be proud of the work you do every day.

Introduction: A Career at HARMAN Corporate

Were a global multi-disciplinary team thats putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. At HARMAN Corporate you are integral to our companys award-winning success.

• Enrich your managerial and organizational talents from finance quality and supply chain to human resources IT sales and strategy
• Augment your comprehensive skillset with expert training across decision-making change management leadership and business development
• Obtain 360-degree support throughout your career life cycle from early-stage to seasoned leader

What Youll Be Part Of

You will serve as a senior technical leader across HARMAN helping turn emerging technologies and HARMANs Technology Strategy into differentiated technical capabilities and future business opportunities. You are an authentic technologist with the depth to earn the respect of HARMANs strongest engineers and scientists and the breadth to operate across Automotive Consumer and Professional markets.

You combine first-principles technical thinking with business judgment and understand the full journey from research and experimentation through architecture engineering and productization. This is not a technology-strategy or divisional engineering role. You will partner closely with Technology Strategy and HARMANs business engineering leaders providing technical leadership where opportunities cross organizational boundaries are still immature or require capabilities that do not yet exist.

Your Team

You will join the HARMAN Chief Technology Officers direct reports team as a key member. You will work across HARMAN Research Technology Strategy Automotive Lifestyle and Samsung technology organizations. Depending on the strategic technology domains being pursued you will establish and lead focused teams combining HARMAN experts with external partners academia startups and Samsung research and pre-development organizations.

How Youll Make An Impact

• Serve as a senior technical authority across HARMAN and provide independent technical judgment on strategically important technologies and architectures.
• Translate priorities identified through HARMANs Technology Strategy into technical hypotheses architectures experiments and capability-building programs.
• Identify technical discontinuities and opportunities that could materially affect HARMANs future competitiveness.
• Lead selected advanced-technology initiatives from early exploration through demonstrated technical and business viability and transition toward the businesses.
• Build strategic technology capabilities and high-caliber technical teams in areas where HARMAN needs to establish or strengthen differentiated expertise.
• Connect and challenge technical communities across Automotive Consumer Professional HARMAN Research and Samsung.
• Advise HARMAN technology and business leaders on complex technology choices including build partner acquire or experiment decisions.
• Establish strong relationships with leading technology companies startups academia and Samsung research organizations and represent HARMAN credibly with customers partners and the external technology community.

What Makes You A Strong Fit

• Exceptional technical track record with demonstrated hands-on depth in a combination of relevant technology domains like physics software AI Machine Learning acoustics material science or signal processing and the ability to reason credibly across adjacent fields.
• Proven experience creating significant technologies architectures platforms or products - not only managing organizations that created them.
• Experience spanning research or advanced development and industrial-scale product development or productization.
• Broad systems thinking across software hardware and physical systems; relevant domains may include AI/ML embedded systems software platforms UX/HMI audio and signal processing sensing compute connectivity and multi-physics systems.
• Proven ability to rapidly understand unfamiliar technical domains identify the critical questions and engage credibly with deep experts.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex technology into business competitive and investment implications.
• Significant technology leadership experience in complex organizations including leading senior engineers scientists and technical leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across organizational boundaries and create alignment without relying on hierarchy.
• Extraordinary communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to operate effectively with engineers researchers business leaders customers partners and senior executives.
• Strong commercial judgment combined with scientific and engineering rigor.

Bonus Points if You Have

• Advanced degree in engineering computer science physics or another relevant technical discipline or comparable experience.
• Experience across multiple industries particularly Automotive Consumer Electronics Professional Audio/Video or adjacent technology markets.
• Experience in more than one organizational environment ideally including a large global corporation and a technology company startup or entrepreneurial environment.
• Demonstrated experience taking technology from research or concept through architecture and product realization.
• Experience working with external research ecosystems academia startups and strategic technology partners.
• Proven ability to build new technical capabilities and attract exceptional technical talent.
• International and cross-cultural leadership experience.

Things To Know

• This role can be based in either Sunnyvale CA or Northridge CA and follows a hybrid schedule with regular in-office collaboration alongside engineering product and customer program teams.
• This role requires occasional domestic and international travel to customer sites manufacturing locations or product launch meetings.
• This role roles requires working across HARMANs global locations businesses and Samsung technology organizations.
• This role requires successfully completing a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment (post-offer).

What You Can Expect

• A hybrid work environment that balances flexibility with in-person collaboration with most office-based roles onsite three days a week.

• Access to employee discounts on HARMAN and Samsung products (including JBL Harman / Kardon AKG and others)

• Learning and development opportunities through our award-winning HARMAN University programs

• Wellness benefits designed to support your overall well-being

• Tuition reimbursement support

• Access to the HARMAN campus fitness center and cafeteria where available

• An inclusive and diverse work environment that supports both your professional and personal development

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Salary Ranges:

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.

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