[Hiring] Engineer, Mechanical Engineering @HARMAN International

Role Description

This position will act as main customer interface, to provide customer-facing mechanical technical interface support for the pursuit, development, integration, and production launch of Harman’s products into customer vehicles. This includes creating, negotiating, and managing project vehicle integration/scope with assigned customer(s), managing mechanical aspects of loudspeaker design with a global team, customer interface/support. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated track record of success with mechanical engineering, customer facing interaction, project management and a knowledge of design and operational systems.

What You Will Do

• Responsible for automotive speaker and amplifier packaging check and concept designs.
• Work closely with customers to support them with mechanical solutions.
• Collaborate with team members, including PM, ASE, ME, RE leader and TE to drive successful project delivery to meet timing, cost and quality goals.
• Prepare technical reports and presentations.
• Acquire necessary vehicle data from customers to conduct packaging studies.
• Develop product concepts based on customer’s vehicle data to check the feasibility of the system architecture from acoustic system engineers.
• Provide concept models and technical proposals to customers to optimize the vehicle design based on the packaging study.
• Upload vehicle data and concept models into internal systems and inform related mechanical engineers to conduct detail designs.
• Be responsible for output of customer drawings.
• Act as a contact window, working closely between customers, leading RE and internal mechanical engineers during the design phase.
• Work closely with PM to track the development process, especially important milestones, like tooling kickoff and sample deliveries.
• Follow up on customer complaints and track the complaint solving process inside Harman.
• Provide on-site support to customers, including design freeze, technical communications, issues follow up, and sample trial assemblies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 3+ years of working experience related to mechanical design, experience of working in automotive OEMs or automotive component suppliers is preferred.

Requirements

• Working Knowledge of:
  • CATIA v5
  • GD & T (Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing)
  • FEA (Finite Element Analysis) and other predictive simulation tools
  • Plastic Injection Molding, metal stampings, die castings
  • Automotive component integration

Bonus Points if You Have

• Experience working as an Audio Resident Engineer with automotive OEM’s
• Customer / supplier negotiations and interfaces
• Acoustic engineering background preferred.

What Makes You Eligible

• Willingness to travel up to 30% of the time.
• Willingness to work in an office in Suzhou.
• Willingness to submit to a background screen and a drug test.

Benefits

• 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.