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Location:
Bucharest - Bucharest, Romania
Job Family:
Engineering
Worker Type Reference:
Regular - Permanent
Pay Rate Type:
Salary
Career Level:
T4
Job ID:
R-42525-2025

Description & Requirements

About the Role

As a Maintenance Principal C++ Engineer in the Telematics team you will have the opportunity to work on innovative software for automotive industry. Telematics exposes the internal car ecosystem to the Internet: the car becomes an element of the Internet of Things (IoT), offering a new level of access to car’s functionalities and a platform to build additional features in areas such as safety, security, comfort.

As a Maintenance Principal Engineer at Harman you are part of the Maintenance Team for our Telematic projects.

You are responsible for the IOC, AUTOSAR, Net, LC and with this the main specialists for these topics also in front of the customer in our maintenance projects.

What You Will Do

  • Analyze the customer requirements allocated to software and map the analyzed requirements to a new or existing software architecture
  • Evaluate and document the software architecture and present it to internal management, sales representatives and at customer meetings
  • Manage the implementation of the software architecture with both local and re-mote development teams
  • Ensures the overall strategic goal of platformization of the SW components
  • Technical analysis and assessment of customer requirements (RFC, RFI, RFQ)
  • Resolve inconsistencies in case of unclear technical requirements in the specification by direct communication with the customer
  • Consideration of Harman processes, Automotive ASPICE and functional safety requirements
  • Reviews HDD and DDD and verifies them against product features, insuring Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • Contact person to the customer and internally for evaluation of new concepts.
  • Provides impact analysis for design changes; provide accurate estimates in time & costs for customer specific requirements
  • Writes code and tests (white-box testing) the component, based on design documentation
  • Analyze malfunctions in terms of time response, stability, robustness of components, as well as of the entire system
  • Analyses the system behavior and predicts root-causes of reported issues;
  • Mainly acts as an expert/consultant of the specified area – advices customer with best-practices
  • Acts as mentor or coach for less experienced engineers;
  • Act according the standards of the automotive industry and in-car applications and software development processes
  • Monitoring of development status and software quality and with means of design and code reviews
  • Bug fixing and maintenance tasks for the Software Components delivered
  • Writes code and tests (white-box testing) the component, based on design documentation
  • Analyze malfunctions in terms of time response, stability, robustness of components, as well as of the entire system
  • Analyses the system behavior and predicts root-causes of reported issues
  • Mainly acts as an expert/consultant of the specified area – advices customer with best-practices
  • Acts as mentor or coach for less experienced engineers
  • Act according the standards of the automotive industry and in-car applications and software development processes
  • Monitoring of development status and software quality and with means of design and code reviews
  • Bug fixing and maintenance tasks for the Software Components delivered

What You Need:

  • At least 7+ years of experience as a software developer
  • Bachelor degree in Computer Science or other re-levant (IT connected) specializations
  • Solid knowledge of C++
  • Linux expertise
  • Experience in developing embedded applications
  • Good knowledge about cryptographic algorithms
  • Good knowledge about memory-protection techniques
  • Experience with OpenSSL, TLS
  • Experience with SomeIP, CAPI, DBus, TCP, UDP protocols
  • Software Update
  • System Functions (Diagnostics, DTCs)
  • AUTOSAR expertise (software components, RTE, BSW)
  • Knowledge in inter-process communication, threading, socket communication
  • Working knowledge of software development processes
  • Debug/Remote debug usinf software or hardware debuggers
  • Working knowledge of embedded operating systems
  • Design processes or components (HDD,CDD)
  • Define and create unit tests
  • Good English skills in spoken and written English

What is Nice to Have:

  • Automotive experience
  • Unified Modeling Language Knowledge
  • Knowledge in agile software development methods (SCRUM, SAFe Agile).
  • Knowledge in one of these areas is very appreciated: Connectivity protocols (Ethernet, WiFi, Blue-tooth, 3G/4G)
  • Security (sandboxing)
  • Knowledge of how a Linux kernel works

What Makes You Eligible:

  • Willingness travel (0-20% of time) depending on the project necessities.

What We Offer

#HarmanEmployees

  • Work in international teams with the world’s largest automotive manufacturers
  • Access career development opportunities and get both on the job training on high-end automotive projects, as well as extensive technical trainings
  • Access HARMAN Webshop with large employee discounts for audio products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG)
  • Are encouraged to a healthy work/life balance with a progressive holiday plan based on total work experience, 2 sick days, 3 days off compensation for weekend legal holidays and flextime
  • And of course, enjoy meal tickets, a premium medical subscription, fitness discounts and other corporate perks

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