System Architect

Location:

- Bangalore - Karnataka, India - EOIZ Industrial Area
- Job Family:

- Engineering
- Worker Type Reference:

- Regular - Permanent
- Pay Rate Type:

- Salary
- Career Level:

- T4(A)
- Job ID:

- R-46508-2025

**Description & Requirements**:
**About the Role**

As a Senior Software Architect in HARMAN Automotive Engineering Services (AES), you will play a crucial role in the team, you will be responsible for ensuring the Design and Architecture of the System, understanding Applications, Middleware, Services in platform and guiding the overall technical vision and architecture of software systems within vehicles. Drive System analysis, design and development of scalable, robust, and secure software solutions, ensuring seamless integration with hardware and other vehicle systems. This role also involves mentoring engineering teams, contributing to software development, best practices, and staying abreast of emerging technologies in the automotive space.

**Your Team**

This role will collaborate Internal and external (customer) Architects and does not have any direct reports. However, as an Automotive System Architect, you will collaborate closely with a team of professionals, software developers, and technical specialists working on architecture, performance analysis, and stability optimization of embedded automotive infotainment systems built on Integrated Digital cockpit platform running multiple OS. You will work in a cross-functional capacity, partnering with stakeholders from different departments to ensure the effective solutions of system team as needed.

**What You Will Do**
- Act as a Technical leader and support Development teams towards deriving solutions and unblock potential System showstoppers.
- Act as Customer interface towards offering custom solutions, making Design decisions and participate in Workshops, technical meetings as needed. Travel to Customer locations as needed.
- Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, trends, and regulations, and provide expertise.
- Conduct technical discussions and carry out workshops with Customer and Third Parties for System blockers. Conduct FTA, reviews.
- Technical Product Ownership System team Stability / performance specifications based on customer and other stakeholders’ specifications to capture clearly and concisely what is required of the product.
- Drive system stability related topics and KPI related optimization topics across the system to achieve customer goals.
- RAM/ CPU optimization to improve the produce quality and performance
- Documents and maintain stability progress and discuss and update customer on regular basis Identifies risk level associated with product stability due to new feature implementation.
- Champions problem solving/lessons learned for assigned program(s)/domain(s)
- Support team to converge on analysis of system performance (CPU, RAM, IPC latency, CAN throughput) and identify bottlenecks or inefficiencies.
- Lead the resolution of customer-reported performance issues through in-depth diagnostics and collaborative troubleshooting.
- Collaborate with suppliers, provide technical leadership for integration tasks, and validate third-party software deliverables.
- Perform detailed root cause analysis of stability-related issues arising from endurance, stability, and long-run tests, and ensure thorough tracking and closure of associated tickets.
- Utilize IPC mechanisms such as D-Bus for efficient communication across components and services.
- Analyze and fix issues in runtime environments, including kernel panics, memory leaks, race conditions, and deadlocks using tools like gdb, perf, DLT Viewer, memory profilers, and hardware debugging instruments.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the team on best practices and architectural design considerations and actively contribute to architectural/code reviews and best practices.
- Use UML design tools such as MagicDraw, Enterprise Architect, or IBM Rhapsody to document, model, and communicate system architecture and design.

**What You Need**
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, or a relevant technical discipline.
- In-depth knowledge of automotive network protocols (CAN, Ethernet), ECU communication, and software architectures.
- In-depth knowledge of automotive software architectures with working knowledge in System domain.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills and hands on experience on Automotive Embedded Systems - Linux, QNX or Integrity RTOS
- Excellent in System issue triaging for Stability and Performance topics
- Experience in designing and implementing Cockpit solutions for IVI and Cluster for automotive systems.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Experience with Agile software development ecosystem

**What is Nice to Have**
- Experience in Hypervisor /Multivisor environment is a plus
- Experience in managing external and internal vendors