Sr. Brakes and Steering Engineer

About Lucid Motors

Lucid Motors focuses on creating mobility experiences through innovation. The company's vehicles are built on proprietary technology and a software-defined vehicle architecture, emphasizing a "Compromise Nothing™" approach in the automotive market. This involves integrating performance, sustainability, design, and engineering to redefine vehicle segments, as seen in Lucid Air and Lucid Gravity models.

Lucid achieves its objectives through deep vertical integration, with design, engineering, and production managed in-house across its global offices and manufacturing facilities. Teams from various industries contribute to a shared commitment to excellence, aiming to shape the future of mobility.

Role Overview

The Sr. Brakes and Steering Engineer provides technical leadership and hands-on engineering support for steering and brake systems. This full-time role covers vehicle launch, production ramp-up, and series manufacturing. The engineer serves as the primary plant engineering focal point for components such as steering gear, steering columns, intermediate shafts, tie rods, brake calipers, rotors, hoses, brake controls, parking brake components, and related chassis system interfaces.

This position requires collaboration with Design Engineering, CAE, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Supplier Quality, Purchasing, and Plant Operations. The goal is to ensure vehicle quality, safety, functional performance, durability, NVH behavior, and manufacturing efficiency. The role is critical for rapid production issue resolution, launch support, and continuous improvement, including sustaining engineering after initial product launch and designing new parts for quality or assembly process improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide production support and resolve issues related to steering and brake systems.
• Support vehicle launches and program activities.
• Offer manufacturing, assembly, and end-of-line support.
• Ensure system performance, supplier quality, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Perform sustaining engineering tasks.

Duties

• Design and develop automotive chassis components and assemblies to optimize NVH, durability, manufacturability, and cost.
• Collaborate with stakeholders such as Core Engineering, Vehicle Safety, Vehicle Dynamics, NVH, Durability, Manufacturing, and Design Studio.
• Work cross-functionally with Manufacturing, Design, Product Development, Purchasing, Supplier Quality, and suppliers on items like tool buy-offs and component changes.
• Serve as the plant technical expert for steering and brake components, assemblies, interfaces, and production build concerns.
• Investigate and resolve vehicle build, fit-up, functional, dimensional, noise, vibration, leakage, durability, and quality concerns.
• Lead root cause analysis for manufacturing, supplier, validation, and field issues, implementing containment and permanent corrective actions.
• Support daily production meetings and manufacturing escalations to minimize downtime related to steering and brake system issues.
• Support prototype, DV, PV, and production vehicle builds, coordinating engineering change releases and plant implementation plans.
• Track launch issues and ensure timely closure, supporting vehicle build events, launch reviews, production readiness reviews, and validation sign-off activities.
• Support assembly robustness for steering and brake system installation, torque strategy, routing, clearances, bleeding, calibration, and end-of-line verification.
• Investigate stack-up, tolerance, alignment, packaging, and interface issues.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering and Quality to improve process capability and reduce rework and scrap.
• Support implementation of poka-yoke, process controls, and standardized troubleshooting methods.
• Interface directly with steering and brake system suppliers on production, quality, dimensional, durability, and functional concerns.
• Lead technical reviews and support supplier containment and corrective action implementation, participating in supplier audits and ongoing quality improvement activities.
• Partner with Steering Design Engineering, Brake Systems Engineering, Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Supplier Quality, and Plant Operations.
• Develop predictive quality monitoring strategies using production, warranty, and issue tracking data.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of experience in a relevant engineering role.

Benefits

Lucid offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance; life and disability coverage; paid time off; paid holidays; paid sick leave; and a 401(k) retirement plan. Hourly/non-exempt employees accrue up to 120 hours of paid time off, while salaried/exempt employees accrue up to 160 hours. Eligible employees may also participate in Lucid’s equity program and/or a discretionary annual cash incentive program, with awards determined based on individual performance, role scope, market considerations, and overall company results.