Tyre Performance Engineer

Brief overview

• Role: Tyre Performance Engineer
• Location: Oxfordshire
• Role type: Permanent
• Salary: Up to £55,000 DOE (negotiable)
• Working type: On-site working

Recruit 12 has an exciting opportunity for a Tyre Performance Engineer to work with top team working in the field of electric motorsport, with strong performances across the Formula-E Championship.

You’ll be supporting event preparation and trackside optimization of tyre usage and cooperation with the factory-based engineers to enhance tyre simulation tools.

Role and Responsibilities

• Optimize tyre usage during track tests and race events to ensure peak performance in qualifying and races
• Support trackside tyre performance engineering through test planning and analysis
• Prepare pre-event tyre reports with recommendations for tyre preparation and usage
• Provide data-driven feedback for tyre model development used in simulations and simulators
• Assist in post-event tyre correlation with drivers and report findings
• Communicate tyre performance data to drivers and race engineers

Required Skills

• Strong knowledge and background in Vehicle Dynamics
• Experience in Vehicle Dynamics modelling (e.g. Matlab, Simulink, SimPack, Dymola, Adams)

Desirable (not essential)

• Trackside experience in a high-level motorsport series
• Trackside experience in managing tyre preparation
• Tyre modelling experience (e.g. Matlab, Simulink)
• Experience in developing tyre thermo-mechanical, high-fidelity, or physical models (e.g. brush models, FE models)
• Experience in tyre testing (indoor and outdoor), including planning, execution, and data analysis

Benefits

• Bonus scheme
• Aviva Pension
• Group Life Assurance & Group Income Protection
• Electric Car Scheme
• Health Cash Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 26 days holiday plus public holidays and the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days
• Childcare Benefits
• Free on-site gym access and discounted national memberships