Sportscar Performance Engineer

General Motors•Concord, NC

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Participate in driving on-track performance improvements through guiding long-term vehicle development directions and providing event specific vehicle configuration, setup, and strategy recommendations to supported race teams. Support all sportscar series objectives by performing analysis in a variety of areas, including vehicle dynamics analysis, simulation model correlation and refinement, on-track, rig-test and DIL data reduction and interpretation, methods development, competitor analysis and reporting tasks. Maintain relationships and alignment with supported race team personnel, travel to occasional race and test events, and closely collaborate with the many groups internal to GM motorsports. Collaborate with GM supported teams and GM personnel to understand team objectives, contribute to a coordinated development effort, and convey findings to all necessary groups. Continuously strive to improve GM Motorsports program’s tools, analysis methods, and vehicle dynamics understanding by: reimagining and prototyping new and better solutions to common problems or questions, correlating existing methods and validating new improvements against track and test data, and working with GM Software team to implement solutions in our production tools. Implement vehicle simulation and data analysis methods, to develop race winning solutions including race-specific setup refinement, pre and post-event reports distributed directly to race team personnel, conceptual studies to guide big-picture development efforts, competitor analysis and event characterization, and race strategy optimization. Clearly present findings, recommendations, and analysis results through well organized and actionable reports and in-person follow-up.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Automotive Engineering, or related field of study
One (1) year of experience as a Performance Engineer, Motorsports Engineer, or related role
One (1) year of experience with top-level motorsports series including IndyCar, F1, NASCAR, IMSA, WEC, or similar
One (1) year of experience with race car setup, event preparation, technical inspection, race procedures and race strategy
One (1) year of experience with race engineering
One (1) year of experience with simulation workflows in a professional motorsports organization including offline simulation and DIL
One (1) year of experience using simulation tools to optimize vehicle performance
One (1) year of experience programming in Python, MATLAB, and VBA
One (1) year of experience analyzing on-track performance, defining performance metrics, and deriving actionable recommendations through application vehicle dynamics principles and statistical methods
One (1) year of experience with motorsports data analysis software including Pi Toolbox, Atlas, Motec, Bosch WinDarab, and AIM Race Studio
One (1) year of experience with vehicle testing methods, sensor instrumentation, calibration and telemetry
One (1) year of experience with data reduction for SPMM, 7-post, and on-track testing

Responsibilities

Guiding long-term vehicle development directions
Providing event specific vehicle configuration, setup, and strategy recommendations to supported race teams
Performing vehicle dynamics analysis
Simulation model correlation and refinement
On-track, rig-test and DIL data reduction and interpretation
Methods development
Competitor analysis and reporting tasks
Maintaining relationships and alignment with supported race team personnel
Traveling to occasional race and test events
Collaborating with internal GM motorsports groups
Understanding team objectives
Contributing to a coordinated development effort
Conveying findings to all necessary groups
Reimagining and prototyping new and better solutions to common problems or questions
Correlating existing methods and validating new improvements against track and test data
Working with GM Software team to implement solutions in production tools
Implementing vehicle simulation and data analysis methods
Developing race winning solutions including race-specific setup refinement
Creating pre and post-event reports distributed directly to race team personnel
Conducting conceptual studies to guide big-picture development efforts
Performing competitor analysis and event characterization
Optimizing race strategy
Presenting findings, recommendations, and analysis results through well organized and actionable reports and in-person follow-up