Advanced Engineer - Embedded Machine Learning

About the role

As an Embedded ML Engineer on the Innovation Team, you will design and manage end-to-end machine learning systems that continuously enhance in-vehicle audio and infotainment experiences. You will transform raw and real-world data into production-ready solutions while ensuring seamless integration, monitoring, and iteration of models deployed on embedded platforms.You will be involved in the full lifecycle from training to inference collaborating closely with Data Scientists, DSP Engineers, and Audio Experts to design models and audio features. Your key responsibilities will include optimizing model performance on embedded devices and enabling remote updates to deliver continuous improvements based on new data and enhanced features. Additionally, you will help establish a closed-loop system by integrating telemetry, model performance monitoring, and continuous retraining or system enhancements based on real-world usage, while adhering to strict privacy, safety, and reliability standards.

Responsibilities

• Deploy ML models on embedded devices such as ARM processors, GPUs, NPUs, SHARC, and other DSP architectures.
• Optimize models for edge hardware (e.g., quantization, pruning, distillation) to ensure real‑time execution within strict latency, memory, and compute budgets.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists and DSP Engineers to convert research notebooks into robust, testable training and inference code; define evaluation criteria, acceptance thresholds, and quality guardrails.
• Build end-to-end ML systems, including telemetry ingestion from vehicles, data validation, feature processing, training, evaluation, packaging, and deployment to production environments.
• Implement continuous training and continuous deployment (CT/CI/CD for ML) with full traceability of model and version registries, along with safe rollback mechanisms.
• Partner with Embedded DSP Engineers to ensure real‑time execution performance, leveraging hardware accelerators such as SIMD, MMA or NEON units.
• Estimate and measure model‑footprint metrics (CPU utilization, memory usage, latency, etc.).
• Redesign or restructure model architectures to reduce embedded resource consumption while maintaining similar levels of accuracy and overall model performance.
• Collaborate on OTA and data‑collection strategies to support continuous model improvement while adhering to strict privacy constraints.
• Contribute to internal documentation, reusable components, and best practices; mentor peers on MLOps workflows and edge optimization techniques.
• Implement monitoring systems to track model performance, data drift, and system behavior in production, ensuring reliability and continuous improvement based on real-world usage.
• Design and implement monitoring systems to track model performance, data drift, and system behavior in production, ensuring reliability and continuous improvement based on real-world usage.
• Provide guidance to less‑experienced team members on model deployment strategies and automation of ML pipelines.
• What You Need to Be Successful
• 6+ years of end‑to‑end ML development experience, including model training, optimization, deployment, and monitoring.
• Proficiency in C/C++ programming language for embedded systems
• Experience working with audio, image or signal processing domains
• Experience building data collection architecture design and overall Data Engineering infrastructure
• Experience working with automotive platforms such as Android Automotive OS, QNX, and embedded Linux.
• Understanding of audio‑hardware communication protocols such as TDM and I²S.
• Experience profiling and optimizing models on SoC or DSPS (Qualcomm, NXP, TI, NVIDIA SHARC, TI)
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Benefits

Additional Information

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. Introduction: A Career at HARMAN Automotive We're a global, multi-disciplinary team that's putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. At HARMAN Automotive, we give you the keys to fast-track your career. Engineer audio systems and integrated technology platforms that augment the driving experience Combine ingenuity, in-depth research, and a spirit of collaboration with design and engineering excellence Advance in-vehicle infotainment, safety, efficiency, and enjoyment

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