Senior Manager, Principal Neuropsychologist (m / f / d)

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 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 focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity, and teamwork are 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 every day.

What You Will Do :

1. Research in driver monitoring systems and driver well-being, including cognitive distraction, drowsiness, stress, impairment, and interventions.
2. Identify research methods, data collection techniques, and analysis methods.
3. Develop experimental paradigms to test hypotheses based on modern knowledge of physiology.
4. Develop approaches to analyze behavior and physiological signals.
5. Enhance data collection procedures to include relevant information for building analytic systems.
6. Work with engineers to create experiments that induce stress, drowsiness, and cognitive distraction in a vehicle setting.
7. Screen, scout, and evaluate the technology market and trends.
8. Drive networking between Harman-X, start-ups, and academia to match interests and evaluate potential collaborations.
9. Develop technologies that deliver breakthrough experiences and work with the broader team to build proof-of-concept/demonstration systems.
10. Compile and organize findings in reports, graphs, charts, and diagrams. Write reports, white papers, conference publications, and patents to support Harman’s industry leadership.

What You Need :

1. Minimum of a PhD in Neurophysiology, Physiology, Psychology, or a related discipline, plus five years of relevant academic or industry experience.
2. Theoretical and practical understanding of Neurophysiology.
3. At least 1 year in the IT industry and 5 years in research.
4. Understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, etc.
5. Experience with data science toolkits like R, Weka, NumPy, MATLAB, etc.
6. Experience with data visualization tools such as D3.js, GGplot, etc.
7. Excellent applied statistics skills, including distributions, statistical testing, and regression.
8. Experience with basic psychological and physiological research methods.
9. Proficiency in scripting and programming, especially Python.
10. Publications in leading scientific journals in Psychology, Physiology, or Neuroscience.
11. Experience conducting basic and applied research in Psychology, Physiology, or Neuroscience.

What is Nice to Have :

1. Experience in data labeling for machine learning.
2. Experience working on research in a commercial environment.

What Makes You Eligible :

• Willingness to travel approximately 10% of the time.

What We Offer :

• A diverse and inclusive work environment with opportunities for career development, professional training, and competitive compensation.
• Employee discounts on Harman’s Consumer Audio products (JBL, AKG, HARMAN Kardon) and Samsung products.
• Flexible work schedules promoting work-life balance in a collaborative, global environment.
• Attractive salary packages based on the Metall & Elektro Tarif Baden Württemberg, with employer contributions to a pension plan.
• Professional growth through HARMAN University’s training and leadership programs.
• Internal talent management and leadership acceleration programs.
• Recognition and rewards through the “Be Brilliant” program.

HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, or other protected characteristics.