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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 the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.\nA Career at HARMAN\nAs a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a 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 everyday.\nIntroduction: A Career at HARMAN Corporate\nWe’re a global, multi-disciplinary team that’s putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. At HARMAN Corporate, you are integral to our company’s award-winning success.\nEnrich your managerial and organizational talents - from finance, quality, and supply chain to human resources, IT, sales, and strategy\n\nAugment your comprehensive skillset with expert training across decision-making, change management, leadership, and business development\n\nObtain 360-degree support throughout your career life cycle, from early-stage to seasoned leader\n\nWhatYou’llBe Part Of\nWe are looking for an AI Test Engineer to assure the quality, safety, and reliability of AI-enabled software used in connected product experiences. You will work at the intersection of AI application quality, automated testing, APIs, cloud and edge services, and connected devices. This is a hands-on role for a specialist who can turn ambiguous product behavior into precise, repeatable evaluation scenarios and clear engineering feedback. You are an active and thoughtful user of modern generative AI tools. You understand their capabilities and limitations and use tools such as ChatGPT, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, or comparable solutions to accelerate test design, automation, debugging, analysis, and documentation - while critically validating their output.\nYou will collaborate with software, machine learning, UX, hardware and product teams to validate AI-driven user journeys from prompt or voice input through orchestration, tools, services, and device responses. Your work will make prototypes and product demonstrations reproducible, observable, and ready for release decisions.\nHowYou’llMakeAnImpact\nLead end-to-end quality engineering for AI-enabled applications, including conversational and agentic workflows, model integrations, orchestration layers, APIs, user interfaces, and connected-device experiences.\n\nDesign and execute structured evaluations for LLM and agent-based behavior: functional correctness, instruction following, tool use, grounding, safety boundaries, consistency, failure handling, and regression risk.\n\nPrototype, build and maintain automated test solutions, including reusable test data, evaluation datasets, test harnesses, API collections and release-validation pipelines.\n\nTranslate product requirements and real user journeys into deterministic and exploratory test scenarios, acceptance criteria and measurable quality signals.\n\nValidate multi-turn and multimodal interaction flows, including speech or text input, device controls, audio or media-related features and context-aware personalization when applicable.\n\nTest REST APIs and distributed services, including request/response contracts, schemas, authentication, error handling, backward compatibility, telemetry and observability.\n\nInvestigate defects using logs, traces, test results and system behavior; isolate root causes, create high-quality defect reports and verify fixes.\n\nReview code changes and collaborate with developers on testability, unit-test coverage, CI quality gates and practical release criteria.\n\nPrepare and validate integrated software-and-device environments across Linux, Windows, mobile platforms, cloud services, local services and networked hardware.\n\nCommunicate quality risk, test evidence, known limitations and release readiness clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\n\nApply AI-assisted engineering tools in your daily work to generate and refine test scenarios, accelerate automation, analyze failures, explore edge cases and improve technical documentation. Critically review and validate all AI-generated output.\n\nWhatMakes YouAStrong Fit\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.\n\n5+ years of hands-on experience in software quality engineering, test automation, systems integration or software validation.\n\nDemonstrable experience testing AI-enabled software products, such as LLM applications, conversational systems, agentic workflows, recommendation systems or ML-powered features. General manual-software-testing experience alone is not sufficient.\n\nStrong understanding of how to evaluate non-deterministic AI behavior and convert it into repeatable, evidence-based quality checks.\n\nHands-on experience with Python and automated testing frameworks; confidence reading and contributing to production-adjacent test code.\n\nPractical experience with REST APIs, JSON, schema/contract validation and test automation for distributed services.\n\nExperience with Git-based development, pull-request review, issue tracking, CI/CD and technical documentation.\n\nStrong troubleshooting skills across application, service, network and device layers; comfortable working with logs, traces, and telemetry.\n\nExperience using AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly to improve test design, automation, debugging and documentation.\n\nAbility to communicate defects and quality trade-offs precisely, work independently and operate effectively when requirements evolve.\n\nBonus Points if You Have\nExperience with LLM evaluation frameworks, prompt testing, retrieval-augmented generation, tool/function calling, agents, or model-provider integration.\n\nExperience validating AI features in embedded, automotive, consumer-electronics, audio, mobile, or other connected-device environments.\n\nExperience with speech interfaces, text-to-speech, speech recognition, audio or media controls, personalization, or multimodal user experiences.\n\nExperience with cloud platforms and local/edge deployment, containers, service observability and test-environment management.\n\nExperience with JavaScript or TypeScript, Bash, mobile-app testing, or hardware-in-the-loop/system-integration testing.\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\nAI-enabled user experiences are evaluated systematically before demos and releases, with clear evidence for expected and edge-case behavior.\n\nHigh-risk regressions in model behavior, prompt logic, orchestration, APIs and device integration are detected early.\n\nTest automation and evaluation assets become reusable, maintainable and part of delivery workflows.\n\nEngineering teams have an accurate, actionable view of quality risks, release readiness and known limitations.\n\nThings To Know\nYou have strong written and verbal communication skills in English.\n\nYou can work at the Garching, Germany location.\n\nWhat You Can Expect\nA hybrid work environment that balances flexibility with in-person collaboration, with most office-based roles onsite three days a week.\n\nAccess to employee discounts on world-class HARMAN and Samsung products (JBL, Harman Kardon, AKG and others).\n\nLearning and development opportunities through our award-winning HARMAN University programs\n\nAn inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development\n\nWork on best-in-class emerging technologies and an atmosphere that motivates you to give your best.\n\nHARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. 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