Director, Intelligent Audio

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for each section present: About the role, Responsibilities (What You Will Do), Requirements (Essential What You Need to Be Successful), Preferred Experience, What We Offer (benefits, pay, etc). Also maybe "What Makes You Eligible" could be part of Requirements? It's about background check; could be included in Requirements or separate? The instruction: include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content. So we can include sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Preferred Experience, Benefits, Pay (if present). Also maybe "What Makes You Eligible" could be part of Requirements (background check). We'll combine. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. So we need to strip out the scam notice, EEO statement, etc. We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to keep the content under each heading. Let's extract: About The Role paragraph: "The Global Leader of Intelligent Audio leads a high-performing applied research team and shapes an ambitious North Star: set a new standard for intelligent audio technology. We are looking for a leader with the passion and technical imagination to expand what audio can do in the era of Artificial Intelligence and the drive to turn that vision into products. You will build on HARMAN's research and audio heritage to create contextual, personalized, adaptive, and interactive device experiences, with excellent sound as the goal and AI as a powerful enabler. This hands-on, lead-from-within role is about shaping a focused team, its culture, and how it works rather than running a large, established organization. Success means shipping platform-ready capabilities in flagship products and establishing AI-enabled tools, testing practices, and workflows that improve how audio is built, tuned, and measured." That's the about role. What You Will Do (Responsibilities): bullet points? It's a list of responsibilities: - Set the technical direction: Own the applied research strategy for intelligent audio at HARMAN. Turn research into commercial-ready technologies that enable audio systems to perceive, understand, and respond intelligently to our customers and the world around them. - Deliver product ready technology: Set a new standard for research delivery by using AI-enabled workflows to move from concept to validated prototype and product transfer far faster than traditional methods allow. - Work with AI experts and technical project management to continually reinvent how the team specifies, builds, tests, and learns as AI capabilities and R&D practices advance, while preserving technical rigor and audio quality. - Build adoption across HARMAN: Partner with UX, Strategy, Product, Engineering, and business leaders, using proactive cross-business influence to align roadmaps and move mature research into real-time implementations that product teams can adopt with confidence. - Grow a high-performing team: Lead from within, shape the team and its culture, coach technical talent, recruit where needed, set clear standards for scientific and engineering rigor, and keep the team current through practical learning and modern tools. - Define and communicate success: Advise executive and product leaders, translating emerging technologies into technical choices, investment priorities, and clear views of progress and risk. Track outcomes such as perceptible audio improvement, shorter prototype and test cycles, adoption in product platforms, and growth in team capability. We need to put each as

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. Essential What You Need to Be Successful (Requirements): list: - A degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Acoustics, Signal Processing, or a related field, or equivalent experience. - Significant relevant experience, typically 8–10+ years, or an equivalent track record of exceptional impact, leadership, and achievement in audio technology and AI for audio, including delivery of novel technology into products. - Strong audio fundamentals and applied AI experience, with the judgment to set direction across specialists rather than personally master every audio discipline. - Demonstrated use of modern AI methods to improve audio systems and research workflows, with a habit of exploring rapidly evolving AI capabilities in new ways. - You can explain what you built, how it was evaluated, and how it improved quality, speed, scale, or product outcomes. - Experience leading and developing technical teams, influencing across organizational boundaries, and communicating a complex technical vision to senior stakeholders. - Practical fluency with algorithm development and modeling tools, plus the systems understanding to guide real-time implementation and hardware/software tradeoffs. - A desire to change the world of audio experiences across Consumer, Pro and Automotive Also "What Makes You Eligible" background investigation and drug screen: we can include as a requirement bullet. Preferred Experience: list: - Experience across more than one audio domain, such as consumer, automotive, or professional audio. - Breadth in areas such as beamforming, spatial rendering, signal processing, perceptual audio, sensing, embedded systems, connected devices, speech pickup or generation, or automated dataset collection. - Experience with C/C++, modern AI frameworks, perceptual studies, or statistical analysis of subjective tests. - Knowledge of industry standards and platforms such as Dolby Atmos, Bluetooth LE Audio, and Auracast. - An advanced degree, patents, or publications. - Demonstrated product impact matters more than credentials alone. What We Offer: includes: - 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 Also Pay Transparency: "$ 173,250 - $ 254,100 Dependent on the position offered, other forms of compensation are also available, such as bonuses or commission. Pay is based on a wide range of factors, including, without limitation, skill set, experience, training, location, and business need. While the above range is a reasonable estimate of the wage range for this position, please note the disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographical differential associated with the location where the position may be filled." We need to include Pay section only if posting actually states them. Yes it does. So we create a Pay section with that info. Benefits: The posting also has a Benefits paragraph: "HARMAN is interested in the health and wellbeing of you and your family and offers a range of benefits designed to support your needs for holistic wellbeing. Benefits and perks may vary depending on the nature of your employment with HARMAN, and may include paid vacation and holidays, paid sick leave, volunteer leave, and paid bonding and care giver leave. Employees may also be eligible to participate in comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, fertility support and adoption assistance, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan with employer match, short and long term disability coverage, life insurance, and more." We could combine Benefits and What We Offer? The instruction: Use headings for Benefits, Pay, Schedule etc. We have both Benefits and What We Offer (which includes discounts, training, wellness, tuition, recognition, inclusive environment). Could treat What We Offer as Benefits section. But we also have a separate Benefits paragraph. To avoid duplication, we could merge them into a single Benefits section containing all bullet points: discounts, training, wellness benefits, tuition reimbursement, recognition program, inclusive environment, plus health/wellness benefits (medical, dental, vision, etc). However we must not invent or summarize away detail; we need to preserve all substantive information. Merging is okay as long as we keep all details. We'll create a Benefits section with a
containing each distinct benefit. We also have Pay section. Schedule: not mentioned, so omit. We must not include sections with placeholder text like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We must output only HTML fragment. Let's craft:

About the role

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Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction: Own the applied research strategy for intelligent audio at HARMAN. Turn research into commercial-ready technologies that enable audio systems to perceive, understand, and respond intelligently to our customers and the world around them.
• Deliver product ready technology: Set a new standard for research delivery by using AI-enabled workflows to move from concept to validated prototype and product transfer far faster than traditional methods allow.
• Work with AI experts and technical project management to continually reinvent how the team specifies, builds, tests, and learns as AI capabilities and R&D practices advance, while preserving technical rigor and audio quality.
• Build adoption across HARMAN: Partner with UX, Strategy, Product, Engineering, and business leaders, using proactive cross-business influence to align roadmaps and move mature research into real-time implementations that product teams can adopt with confidence.
• Grow a high-performing team: Lead from within, shape the team and its culture, coach technical talent, recruit where needed, set clear standards for scientific and engineering rigor, and keep the team current through practical learning and modern tools.
• Define and communicate success: Advise executive and product leaders, translating emerging technologies into technical choices, investment priorities, and clear views of progress and risk. Track outcomes such as perceptible audio improvement, shorter prototype and test cycles, adoption in product platforms, and growth in team capability.

Requirements

• A degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Acoustics, Signal Processing, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Significant relevant experience, typically 8–10+ years, or an equivalent track record of exceptional impact, leadership, and achievement in audio technology and AI for audio, including delivery of novel technology into products.
• Strong audio fundamentals and applied AI experience, with the judgment to set direction across specialists rather than personally master every audio discipline.
• Demonstrated use of modern AI methods to improve audio systems and research workflows, with a habit of exploring rapidly evolving AI capabilities in new ways.
• You can explain what you built, how it was evaluated, and how it improved quality, speed, scale, or product outcomes.
• Experience leading and developing technical teams, influencing across organizational boundaries, and communicating a complex technical vision to senior stakeholders.
• Practical fluency with algorithm development and modeling tools, plus the systems understanding to guide real-time implementation and hardware/software tradeoffs.
• A desire to change the world of audio experiences across Consumer, Pro and Automotive.
• Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment (post-offer).

Preferred Experience

• Experience across more than one audio domain, such as consumer, automotive, or professional audio.
• Breadth in areas such as beamforming, spatial rendering, signal processing, perceptual audio, sensing, embedded systems, connected devices, speech pickup or generation, or automated dataset collection.
• Experience with C/C++, modern AI frameworks, perceptual studies, or statistical analysis of subjective tests.
• Knowledge of industry standards and platforms such as Dolby Atmos, Bluetooth LE Audio, and Auracast.
• An advanced degree, patents, or publications.
• Demonstrated product impact matters more than credentials alone.

Benefits

• 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
• Paid vacation and holidays, paid sick leave, volunteer leave, and paid bonding and care giver leave
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
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