Principal Engineer - System Requirements

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

You will be responsible for collecting, structuring, and monitoring the stakeholder requirements during the complete lifecycle processes. This position requires a broad background in automotive telematics and connectivity systems, as well as deep knowledge in one or more relevant product domains.  This position leads system requirements development for assigned program(s)/domain(s) from a technical expertise base without having direct reports.  Able to provide technical leadership, evaluate tradeoffs, resolve issues, and achieve technical solutions that meet stakeholder requirements. Must be able to communicate effectively and document the resulting product requirements. Serves as the technical interface for assigned program(s)/domain(s) for the customers in region Japan.

Your Team

The Engineer will report to the System Engineering Manager/Director and will typically be assigned to multiple projects. This position does not have any direct reports.  Expected to lead assigned team members through matrix organization.

What You Will Do

• System Requirements technical Product Ownership for assigned programs (awarded programs and/or RfIs & RfQs):
  • Analyze the internal and external requirements to capture clearly and concisely what is required of the product. 
  • Drive and own SRS requirements and traceability through Design, Development and Test .
  • Identifies risk level associated with new feature development based on requirements status.
  • Aware of relevant Federal Standards, industry standards and internal standards and ensures that resulting designs will satisfy these requirements.
  • Drive reuse:  Lead the development of reusable internal requirements, identifying synergies and opportunities for design reuse.
• Stakeholder management:
  • Focal point for Requirements Engineering Technical topics for assigned program(s)/domain(s).
  • Maintains organized repository of both customer and 3rd party requirements specifications.
  • Supports the relevant organizations in the business development phase of a program as part of proposal activity, by analyzing customer RFQ specifications and developing technical impact analysis and compliance matrix. 
• Process/Tools:
  • Ensures compliance to ASPICE level 3.
  • Identifies opportunities and makes recommendations for improvements in tools and process.
  • Responsible for developing Requirements strategy for assigned program(s)/domain(s) in compliance with ASPICE.

What You Need

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of working experience within requirements management.
• 5+ years of experience with Requirements Management Tool “DOORS”, Doors DXL script language and Doors exchange mechanism.
• Good knowledge of embedded software and system.
• Good knowledge of requirements management standard process.
• Excellent knowledge of RFI/RFQ process.
• Communication and moderation skills.
• Good English communication skills both written and verbal.

What is Nice to Have

• Qualification for requirements engineers, e.g., “IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering”.
• Configuration management rules and tools especially baselining.
• Knowledge of process models (e.g., Automotive SPICE®).

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel up to 30%, domestic only OR domestic and international travel. 

What We Offer

• We offer an authentic diverse, equal, and inclusive work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development in a truly global organization.
• You will work on products and services that touch people’s lives and will change the industrial standards, being a part of the transformations in our industry.
• Our work environments are fast paced, challenging, empowering, collaborative, flexible and exciting.
• We offer our own HARMAN University with regular updates on the new technologies and trends by utilizing various sessions organized by Self Learning and Development Trainings to help grow and advance talent.
• We offer competitive compensation/benefit programs and recognition programs.

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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 torace, 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.