Software Developer (CFD)

After more than 60 years away from Formula One, Aston Martin is back on the grid for 2021. Based in Northamptonshire, Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One™ Team has almost 500 passionate people at its heart, making a team with both a rich heritage and a fresh perspective – bringing new energy to the sport with a determination to shake up the order and compete at the sharp end.

The Aston Martin era represents the beginning of a new journey for us, but the racer’s attitude and can-do approach remain central pillars in the team’s philosophy. The focus is always on improving performance and delivering results. With fresh investment and energy, the stage is set to build on Aston Martin’s rich history in motorsport and establish Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One™ Team as a competitive force in the years ahead.

To succeed on this mission, the team is looking for talented individuals who share our passion for racing and hunger for competition. It’s a stimulating and rewarding place to work, with pure racing at the core of everything we do. We are building for a strong future and every member of the team will play an important role in our success.

We are a brave and united team who value authenticity, honesty, and are never afraid to question conventions. We embrace these values in ways that reflect our modern world. If you share our racer’s spirit and want to contribute to the next chapter in Aston Martin’s glorious history, please apply and join one of the most exciting projects in Formula One.

We have a new opportunity available for a Software Developer (CFD).

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic DevOps Software Developer to fill an exciting position within the Computational Fluid Dynamics group.

Relying on a high level of automation, the CFD process is critical to the speed and quality of the car's aerodynamic development and benefits from constant maintenance and improvement. The full process is a combination of a web framework and services built on a background of scripts driving both open source and in-house software.

Working closely with the CFD, HPC and IT development groups and reporting to the Head of CFD, the successful candidate will be expected to excel in a problem-solving environment, developing applications, tools and methods to bind and continually improve the entire CFD process. The successful candidate should have the following preferred skills and knowledge:

  • Orchestration/configuration management tools (Puppet or similar)
  • CI/CD tools (TeamCity or similar)
  • Container software (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Programming / scripting language (Python/Rust or similar)
  • Linux environments

Practical experience of search engines (Elasticsearch/Solr), databases, message queues (Redis/RabbitMQ or similar), webservers (Nginx/Apache or similar), frontend programming, computer graphics (Unity/ParaView/WebGL) and HPC would be a distinct advantage.

Experience in CFD is not essential. A desire to learn, understand and contribute is paramount.