Strategy Engineer

This post will maximise the Power Unit's performance through strategic deployment & innovative engineering solutions for Formula 1 World Championships.

Job no: 492262
Work type: Permanent
Location: Brixworth
Department: Product Validaton

If you're successful in this role, you'll…

  • Manage and enhance the tools to monitor the life of the Power Unit, maximising World Championship points and completing our goal of “zero race weekend failures”
  • Create Power Unit strategies and solutions for deployment across the season, quantifying the potential PU lifecycle
  • Provide software solutions required by trackside engineering and the dyno test engineers to monitor engine operational limits and quickly diagnose live issues through data driven software
  • Offer the analysis and expertise to effectively deploy critical engine metrics that define Power Unit life, analysing potential performance alternatives and understand their effect on Power Unit demand across the season
  • Provide live strategic support of our Power Units at tests and races through our Track Support Office
  • Design solutions and engineering tools through expertise, to analyse competitor performance to gain critical advantage

Therefore we need you to…

Be skilled at…

  • Driving data analysis and prognosis, making time critical decisions
  • Developing and creating new and innovative analysis methods
  • Using information, insights and knowledge in a structured way to identify options, make recommendations and make accurate decisions

Have experience of…

  • Operating in an high-performance driven environment with specific attention to quality, speed and accuracy of analysis, data and metric frameworks
  • Analytical / Mathematical activity in a comparative background
  • Statistical Modelling (preferred) and/or Software Development

Demonstrate knowledge of…

  • Understanding of a trackside motorsport environment and customising engineering tools

Hold these qualifications…

  • Degree with 2:1 classification or above in a relevant engineering subject (e.g. Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics)
  • A post graduate qualification in a relevant engineering subject (Masters, PhD)

Be…

  • Decisive -  analyses and interprets data and information quickly
  • Driven to deliver – resourceful, determined and focused
  • Curious - inquisitive and open minded, while seeking out evolving and innovative ways to add value to the team
  • Self-Motivated – has clarity on a clear development path, forthright with ideas which can then be applied with rigorous enthusiasm

In return you’ll get the chance to be part of a team with some of the best in the world, at a state of the art facility, with a very real chance to make history.

We look forward to meeting you!