Artificial Intelligence

• 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.

Director, AI – Process Excellence

KI-/AI Spezialist

AI Specialist