F1 Senior Tyre Science Engineer

General Summary:
This position reports to the Team Leader - Tyre Science or their designee and is based in Oxfordshire, UK. The position involves design, development, and application of advanced simulation tools with a strong focus on tyres, and any such tools that are used in the continuous improvement of the performance of car. This position requires support during race weekends from factory and attendance to a limited number of trackside races and tests.

Key Responsibilities:
General

• Promote teamwork and effective communications to develop working relationships between all personnel and departments.
• Follow all safety regulations in all venues.
• Other duties as assigned by the Team Leader - Tyre Science or their designee.

Factory

• Design, develop and continually assess the correlation of both physical and empirical tyre models whilst conducting research to seek improvements on the modelling techniques.
• Support the Design Office and other departments in the design of cars and tools with simulations and data driven approaches.
• Design, development, and correlation of tools aimed at analysing the tyre performance on track, on the rigs and when used on simulation tools (i.e. lap sim, DIL, HIL, etc).
• Collaborate with software engineers on the design and development of tools used to monitor the performance of tyres.
• Develop the necessary infrastructure for fitting physical and empirical tyre models to track and/or rig data.
• Manage and maintain the tyre catalogues to provide a comprehensive set of parameters, populate all simulation and analysis tools with the most precise and up-to-date information.
• Lead the monitoring of the performance of all sensors directly and indirectly related to tyres.
• Lead and maintain any collaboration with Electronics and Control System departments in detecting and reporting malfunctioning of sensors. Propose solutions and/or support the investigation with a data driven approach.
• Supervise and mentor junior engineers with their contribution to the team activities.

Trackside

• Formulate pre-event simulations and reporting to support Race Engineering with the event preparation.

• Complete post-event analysis and reporting of tyre performance with focus on improving the performance of the tyres and the tools involved.
• Support race and test event through the entire weekend by following the sessions live from the factory or at the track.
• Assist Race Engineering, Vehicle Performance and Strategy departments to monitor and optimize the car performance.
• Support Race Engineering by providing the tyre performance analysis report and answer to specific focus points when requested at the end of each session.
• Collaborate and assist Electronics and Control Systems department to monitor live the performance of sensors directly and indirectly related to tyres.

Testing

• Propose tyre test items, for all trackside testing opportunities and report the findings with a data driven approach. Review of the testing techniques and suggest changes for improvements.
• Responsible for the management of projects; from outsourced bench testing activities: define objectives, test plans, data post-processing, analysis and reporting.
• Work with internal and external test engineers to improve experimental test facilities and processes.

Education and Work Experience:

• Comprehensive knowledge of all onboard sensors and instrumentations generally used to monitor tyres performance and operating conditions.
• Extensive Vehicle Dynamics experience.
• Accurate understanding of techniques for analysis in the frequency and special domains.
• In-depth knowledge of tyre thermal and mechanical modelling techniques.

Specialised Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong communication skills, written and verbal.

• Strong technical background in engineering, applied mathematics and physics.
• Strong technical background in racing car.
• Work to a consistently high standard in stressful and time sensitive situations.
• Quick decision-making skills whilst working through problems in a scientific and analytical way.
• Work well within a team environment with personnel at all levels.
• A sympathetic approach to your work colleagues and an ability to integrate within a group environment.
• A can-do positive approach and a willingness to help others is essential.

Equipment and Applications:

• Good to advanced experience and knowledge of Matlab & Simulink and C#.
• Innovative understanding of Atlas.
• Good to advanced knowledge of MAT products to enable management application in vTAG environment like System Monitor and GDE libraries.
• Beginner level in VB (for excel).

Work Environment Physical Demands:
An ability to work and prioritise within a high pressure, time sensitive environment while retaining a methodical approach is essential. The role may require occasional domestic and international travel and a willingness to work long and flexible hours including weekends.