Product Development Engineer-Brake Core NVH and Dynamometers

Location: Livonia, MI, United States; Hybrid

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The Brake NVH Core Engineer is a technical and operational leadership role in Underbody Systems. It requires deep expertise in brake noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH), friction-pair behavior, system integration, and vehicle-level performance. It also requires practical command of brake dynamometer operations.

The role has two connected parts. On the engineering side, you own brake NVH methods, author system and component requirements, and use model-based systems engineering to link customer attributes to design decisions and verification evidence. You are the technical lead with CAE and lead the peer network of brake NVH champions. You also support program-level NVH work, including dyno noise signoff, cold-room and low-frequency vehicle testing, electric parking brake (EPB) sound quality, and vehicle-level subjective and objective evaluation.

 

On the operations side, you are the single point of ownership for brake dyno testing. Ford-operated dynos at Building 4 and leased dynos at LTL run in parallel, and the machines differ widely in capability. You decide which tests run where and when. You also oversee an annual operating budget in the millions of dollars and manage the working relationships among Ford engineering, facilities (VEV), the Ford skilled trades, and the test-lab operators and suppliers (LINK, MSC) who make testing possible.

This is a high-visibility role. Programs compete for scarce test capacity, and you will need to make firm, well-explained prioritization decisions. Your work directly affects program timing, launch quality, warranty performance, and customer satisfaction.

Serve as Ford's brake NVH Core Engineer and lead of brake dynamometer operations. You will own NVH methods and requirements, lead the CAE interface, and run dyno scheduling, budget, uptime, and upgrades across Ford-operated and leased labs. This protects validation capacity and launch readiness.