Director, AI - Process Excellence
Director, AI - Process Excellence
Director, AI - Process Excellence
Director, AI - Process Excellence
Harman International
Unterhaltungselektronik
Garching bei München
- Art der Beschäftigung: Vollzeit
- 99.000 € – 130.000 € (von XING geschätzt)
- Vor Ort
Director, AI - Process Excellence
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About the Role
We are seeking a hands-on technical leader who can drive enterprise-scale AI adoption across our automotive division.
What You Will Do
- Lead the architecture and development of AI platforms focused on internal process excellence.
- Partner with the Automotive Principal Architect to define the architecture, tools, and processes for AI/ML adoption globally.
- Manage a team of five AI practitioners, while mentoring global teams implementing AI solutions.
- Design and implement advanced AI solutions requiring cross–value-stream orchestration.
- Influence an AI-first culture across HARMAN’s Automotive Digital roadmap as part of the Automotive Digital Leadership coalition.
- Lead development of end-to-end data platforms for agentic AI training, evaluation, and reinforcement, aligned with strategy, budget, and resources.
- Build scalable, real-time pipelines to ingest, transform, and store multimodal data (text, logs, user interactions, actions, environments).
- Design dynamic memory and knowledge systems (vector stores, graph DBs, memory stores).
- Collaborate with researchers to integrate live feedback, human-in-the-loop data, and auto-labeling systems.
- Own data governance, quality, and security policies for self-improving AI agents, aligning with global standards.
- Build observability tools for agent behavior and decision tracking (lineage, reproducibility, versioning).
- Mentor junior engineers and cultivate a high-performance engineering culture.
- Stay ahead of AI infrastructure trends and incorporate best practices into roadmaps.
- Act as subject matter expert for AI engineering internally and externally.
- Manage budgets for AI tools and rigorously measure value generated vs. costs.
- Drive ecosystem partnerships, vendor management, and executive-level influence to advance adoption.
Success Measures
- Division-wide AI adoption.
- Delivery of scalable, enterprise-grade platforms.
- Number of production AI agents driving measurable efficiency and effectiveness gains.
What You Need to Be Successful
- Graduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (PhD a plus).
- 10+ years of data engineering experience, including 5+ years in leadership or architecture.
- Expertise in Python and SQL.
- Strong background in real-time streaming frameworks (Kafka, Pulsar, Spark Streaming, Flink).
- Experience building and maintaining data lakes/warehouses (Snowflake, Delta Lake, BigQuery, MS Fabric).
- Hands-on with LLMs, vector databases (Pinecone, FAISS), and agent memory systems.
- Knowledge of MLOps/agent lifecycle tooling (LangChain, MCP, AutoGen, MLflow).
- Cloud-native architecture experience (AWS/GCP/Azure), incl. orchestration (Airflow, dbt).
- Proven ability to influence, lead change, and communicate effectively with stakeholders.
Bonus Points if You Have
- Familiarity withagent frameworks(OpenAI Assistants, LangGraph, AutoGPT, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel).
- Data engineering certification (e.g., DP-600 for MS Fabric).
- Project Management certification (e.g., PMI).
- Advanced cross-cultural leadership and conflict resolution skills.
- Automotive or manufacturing industry knowledge.
What Makes You Eligible
Willingness to travel up to 20%, including international travel (team collaboration, customers, partners, and conferences).
What We Offer
Access to employee discounts on world-class products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, and more)
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
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You Belong Here
HARMAN is committed to making every employee feel welcomed, valued, and empowered. No matter what role you play, we encourage you to share your ideas, voice your distinct perspective, and bring your whole self with you – all within a support-minded culture that celebrates what makes each of us unique. We also recognize that learning is a lifelong pursuit and want you to flourish. We proudly offer added opportunities for training, development, and continuing education, further empowering you to live the career you want.
About HARMAN: Where Innovation Unleashes Next-Level Technology
Ever since the 1920s, we’ve been amplifying the sense of sound. Today, that legacy endures, with integrated technology platforms that make the world smarter, safer, and more connected.
Across automotive, lifestyle, and digital transformation solutions, we create innovative technologies that turn ordinary moments into extraordinary experiences. Our renowned automotive and lifestyle solutions can be found everywhere, from the music we play in our cars and homes to venues that feature today’s most sought-after performers, while our digital transformation solutions serve humanity by addressing the world’s ever-evolving needs and demands. Marketing our award-winning portfolio under 16 iconic brands, such as JBL, Mark Levinson, and Revel, we set ourselves apart by exceeding the highest engineering and design standards for our customers, our partners and each other.
If you’re ready to innovate and do work that makes a lasting impact, join our talent community today!
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