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.