Tyre Engineer

At the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team, a group of passionate and determined people work to design, develop, manufacture and race the cars with the aim of fighting for world championships each and every year.

Whether working in our Operations, Technical, Race or Business Support functions, we are all in and aspire to build the greatest team in the history of our sport.

Every individual plays their part. No stone is left unturned in the chase for every tenth of a second. The history of our sport is long and rich and we are continuing our journey with renewed effort year on year. Record books remember the names of a few, but history is written by the many.

The Role:

As one of our Tyre Engineers, your responsibilities will include:

• Being highly analytical in which you will be expected to identify, analyse and develop solutions to improve vehicle performance.
• Systematically investigating and understanding tyre performance through race events, from the factory race support room.
• Investigating and understanding correlation differences between vehicle simulations and the race car behaviour on track.
• Contribute to tyre analysis preparation ahead of race events and post race performance review and summary documents.
• Running simulations to review new performance concepts that deliver performance differentiation from competitors.
• Improving and developing new methodologies for performance analysis tools to support objective technical decision making.
• Support driver-in-the-loop simulator testing for customer projects with tyre model fitting and correlation.
• Support thermo-mechanical tyre model testing and parameterisation to ensure efficient development and release cycles.

To be successful you will have:

Essential

• Mechanical or Aeronautical Engineering degree (preferably Masters) or similar qualification is essential, but your skills, experience, ability to learn, energy and attitude are most important.
• Excellent grounding in mechanics and in engineering numerical methods.
• Conversant with engineering software tools and object-oriented coding languages.
• Excellent communicative and collaborative skills.

Desirable

• Proven experience of trackside tyre performance or trackside tyre development experience.
• Experience of tyre rig testing and correlation to vehicle data.
• Experience in non-linear programming techniques and optimal control will be considered beneficial.
• Familiarity with matlab/python/plotly for data handling and visualisation creation

Benefits:

Our riverside campus is powered by 100% renewably sourced energy and features an on-site gym and exercise studio, subsidised restaurant and on-site parking with EV chargers available.

We offer a competitive and attractive package of benefits including a generous bonus scheme, Mercedes car lease scheme, private medical cover, life assurance and 25 days holiday. We pride ourselves on our family-friendly environment, employee well-being programme and offer flexible working opportunities.

Why us:

At the heart of our performance are our people. Every member of our team has a voice and plays their part in contributing to our successes on and off the racetrack. We take pride in creating an innovative, collaborative and high-performance culture where all of our team members are respected, empowered and valued.

Through our Accelerate 25 programme, we are continuously working to make our team even more diverse and inclusive. Whatever your background, we believe that you will find working with us rewarding and enriching.

Your application:

We will ask you to complete a questionnaire as well as submitting a cover letter and CV. Please note if you would like to include a cover letter please upload it with your CV as one PDF document.

Closing Date: 22nd January 2025