Vehicle NVH – Active Technology Engineer

Warwick, Warwickshire
JLR

A leading premium automotive business and leading to move towards electric autonomous vehicles.

Vehicle NVH is responsible for ensuring the many aspects of refinement required to achieve the customer expectations for all Jaguar and Land Rover programmes. The attribute function is responsible for attribute strategy, methods and targets developed for the full vehicle, systems and components. The Advanced NVH Technologies team role is to develop and deliver Active Noise and Sound Design technologies to engineering programmes.

JLR were the first mainstream product to use active sound design in our I-Pace, and all our PHEV and BEV vehicles have been equipped with Acoustic Vehicle Alert Systems (AVAS) systems since 2018, long before regulations mandated. Our Engine noise cancellation technology was pivotal in the successful release of our PHEV vehicles, and the new Active Road Noise Cancellation system is a technology story for many JLR products. These technologies unlock traditional compromises between weight and NVH performance and allow a superior customer experience.

WHAT TO EXPECT

The Advanced Technologies NVH team is a small proactive team well used to working within tight timescales. The team has worked collaboratively to introduce of a range of Active noise technologies that have delivered the powertrain and road noise sound quality across the JLR product range.

With expanding active sound technology deployment, the role of Product Owner is to support the development and timely release of active sound design calibrations within a dynamic release schedule.

Your work will cover the full range of technologies, covering all our vehicle lines. You will be responsible for organising the team on the integration and successful deployment of new technologies in a robust way. You will liaise with Programme teams, scheduling vehicles, planning team workloads in an agile manner to deliver the release schedule of technology calibrations. You will manage issue investigations and improvement projects for active sound technologies, including responding to direct customer feedback.

As a Vehicle NVH Active Technology Product Owner the projects you will deliver will continue to develop your Engineering skills and Business Behaviours while meeting programme deadlines. You will ensure JLR products maintain their attribute position in the Premium market sector within a supportive environment.

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• Supporting calibration planning for delivery of all Active Sound Design technologies, including Road and Engine Noise Cancellation technology, Active EV-Sound Design and Acoustic Vehicle Alert Systems
• Managing the delivery of robust, high quality feature calibrations across all vehicle lines.
• Work with the Programme Attribute Team (PAT) to ensure all technologies are planned and resourced within an agile framework
• Managing the delivery of any updates for feature calibrations driven by improvement or external factors
• Supporting teams with design and technology demonstrator systems, feature definition and system behaviours
• Robustly planning and managing workload for tuning teams, learning to deliver calibrations and reports.
• Working on tasks to ensure all lessons learnt from the current vehicle are captured and fed back to the Programme Attribute Team and progressed as necessary.
• Undertaking any other work as directed by your line manager in connection with the role as may be requested.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

Knowledge of:

• Perception of sound design and active noise cancellation systems to meet a product brief of sound for vehicle applications
• Capable of building relationships with and working with people across the business to communicate NVH or system issues clearly.
• Noise and vibration evaluation, preferably with vehicle experience
• Planning tools and methods (for example, Atlassian JIRA).
• Experience with product, software or calibration release.
• Receiving and understanding feedback to refine sound designs, with an understanding of market preferences, to meet customer expectations
• Relevant degree or equivalent experience preferred.