# Ford Racing Brake Hardware Development Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Allen Park, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $86,600-$144,900 or $99,100-$166,200
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Join the Ford Racing Performance Car & Truck Team as a Brake Development Engineer and help create a leading performance portfolio. You will lead vehicle-level foundation brake development across Ford Racing's portfolio, own brake performance development, serve as the brake pedal feel subject matter expert, and lead tuning, testing, problem resolution, and launch sign-off.

Responsibilities:

- Oversee vehicle-level DVPs for forward-model programs, quality actions, TVM actions, and other projects.

- Establish and defend TPV and DCV prototype counts to support milestone delivery.

- Manage Link Engineering resources, technical priorities, and workloads across programs to reduce testing costs and improve Ford/Link team efficiency.

- Lead vehicle-level brake development, validation, and engineering sign-off using FEDE DV tools, ensuring compliance with FMVSS, ECE, and Ford requirements.

- Serve as Ford Racing's brake pedal feel subject matter expert; lead friction material selection and work with component D&R engineers on rotor, caliper, and actuation design.

- Direct vehicle testing strategies and oversee purchased-services testing personnel.

- Interpret test results and lead cross-functional investigations into brake performance, customer attributes, compliance, quality, durability, and launch concerns.

- Drive TDC and PEC milestones, launch readiness, quality objectives, and customer satisfaction.

- Support warranty taskforces, field investigations, Technical Specialist requests, and brake-related corrective actions.

- Develop annual brake engineering budgets and forecasts; communicate technical status, risks, and mitigation plans to engineering and senior leadership.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor of Science in Engineering.

- Understanding of vehicle development, validation, engineering release, and safety and regulatory requirements.

- Ability to interpret physical test data and apply engineering judgment to complex issues.

- Ability to manage priorities across programs while balancing quality, cost, timing, and performance.

- Strong communication and organizational skills; an independent self-starter who can connect analysis with hardware and vehicle performance.

Benefits:

- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

- Tuition assistance

- Established and active employee resource groups

- Paid time off for individual and team community service

- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day

- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

## Skills

### Required
- vehicle development
- validation
- engineering release
- safety and regulatory requirements
- brake system experience
- foundation brakes
- performance
- pedal feel
- vehicle dynamics
- testing
- launch
- D&R activities

### Nice to have
- CAD or visualization tools
- GPDS program delivery processes
- tuning and evaluating pedal feel
- flashing EBB units
- debugging DTCs
- creating Driver Brake Request tables
- evaluating high- and low-frequency vehicle NVH

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