# Senior Brakes and ESC Engineer **Company**: McLaren Automotive **Location**: Idiada **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351854 **Apply**: https://mclarencareers.mclaren.com/careers/JobDetail/Senior-Brakes-and-ESC-Engineer/59546?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_1ceead4d-8c1 ## Description At McLaren Automotive, we push the boundaries of performance, innovation and driving purity. As Senior Engineer – Brakes & ESC, you will be responsible for the development, tuning and validation of stability control and brakes attributes, supporting delivery of McLaren’s dynamic performance targets. You will own the day-to-day technical delivery of ESC and Brake systems on vehicle programmes, working closely with Vehicle Dynamics, Controls, Chassis and Development teams, delivering world-class braking and stability performance. Responsibilities: - Define and deliver Brakes and ESC attribute targets for vehicle programmes, ensuring alignment with McLaren's vehicle dynamics philosophy, customer expectations, programme timing and performance objectives. - Lead the technical development and integration of ESC and braking systems throughout the vehicle development cycle, ensuring robust system functionality, performance, safety and driver engagement across all operating conditions. - Own the planning and execution of attribute development activities, managing technical priorities, test resources, budgets and programme deliverables to achieve sign-off milestones efficiently and on time. - Develop objective and subjective performance metrics for braking and stability control systems, ensuring engineering decisions are supported by data-driven analysis and driver feedback. - Collaborate with Vehicle Dynamics, Controls, Software, Chassis and Development teams to ensure effective system integration and delivery of cohesive vehicle behaviour across all vehicle modes and use cases. - Direct validation and sign-off activities for braking and ESC attributes, ensuring performance targets, regulatory requirements and programme quality standards are fully achieved before vehicle release. - Provide technical leadership in the evaluation and development of control strategies, simulation tools and vehicle models, enabling efficient resolution of engineering challenges and continuous improvement of attribute capability. - Maintain comprehensive technical documentation, development records and engineering recommendations to support programme governance, knowledge retention and future vehicle development activities. Requirements: - Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent industry experience. - Extensive experience in vehicle dynamics engineering with demonstrable expertise in braking systems, ESC and chassis control systems. - Proven capability in defining, developing, calibrating, tuning and validating vehicle dynamic attributes in both objective and subjective environments. - Strong understanding of vehicle control systems, including ESC, traction management, brake control and related chassis technologies. - Experience calibrating vehicle control systems to achieve intended vehicle behaviour, balancing objective performance targets with driver perception and customer expectations. - Advanced data analysis capability with experience interpreting complex vehicle datasets to support engineering decisions and attribute development. - Experience using MATLAB/Simulink and industry-standard calibration, measurement and data analysis tools. - Strong knowledge of brake system architecture, brake performance, pedal feel development, thermal behaviour and brake durability. - High-performance driving capability, with the ability to objectively assess vehicle behaviour and provide high-quality subjective feedback during development activities. - Experience planning and executing vehicle development activities across simulation, proving ground, road and track environments. - Ability to translate subjective driver feedback into robust engineering actions and measurable performance improvements. - Experience collaborating across multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver integrated vehicle performance solutions. - Understanding of model-based development and control system design would be advantageous. Benefits: - Structured career development framework - 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days - Enhanced company pension scheme - Discretionary annual bonus award - Private medical insurance and health cash plan - Life assurance benefit - Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ service - Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping - Generous parental leave policies - A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice ## Skills ### Required - Mechanical Engineering - Automotive Engineering - Vehicle Dynamics - Braking Systems - ESC - Chassis Control Systems - MATLAB/Simulink - Data Analysis ### Nice to have - Model-Based Development - Control System Design --- Source: [Apply at mclarencareers.mclaren.com](https://mclarencareers.mclaren.com/careers/JobDetail/Senior-Brakes-and-ESC-Engineer/59546?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)