Title: Vehicle Test Engineer NVH
Location: Newark, CA 94560 USA
Duration: 05+ Months
Position Summary:
Qualifications:
Test Engineer with a focus on Vehicle NVH responsible for engineering optimal NVH performance while balancing mass, packaging and cost.
Description:
Develop test procedures to evaluate in-vehicle for NVH performance.
Acquire and interpret NVH data to guide design decisions and optimize vehicle acoustic performance.
Work closely with Vehicle Integration, Body, Chassis, and Thermal teams to drive the design for NVH.
Support target setting and cascade process for vehicle-level NVH performance.
Perform - at a vehicle and component level - testing and assessments to improve airborne and structure-borne noise performance in prototypes and production vehicles.
Qualifications:
Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, Acoustics, Physics, or a related field. Master s or PhD preferred.
2-6+ years of relevant experience.
Strong fundamentals in structural dynamics, acoustics, and digital signal processing.
Proficiency in using NVH data acquisition systems, accelerometers, microphones.
Experience in performing modal testing and order analysis.
Strong fundamental understanding of digital signal processing, psychoacoustics, and the use of sound quality metrics to record, track and report NVH performance in an appropriate manner.
Experience of Siemens TestLab and/or Artemis Suite.
Preferred:
Previous experience taking a vehicle from concept to production.
Experience in NVH characterization and fault detection using microphones, acoustic cameras, particle velocity probes, etc...
Experience working on Road & Tire Noise.
Experience in Buzz, Squeak & Rattler (BSR) issues.
Experience in Operational Sound Quality (OSQ) issues.
Experience working with cross-functional teams.