General Motors

Motorsports Performance Engineer

General Motors

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Concord • Missouri, North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

Python

About the role

  • 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 programs’ 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.
  • Working with GM Software team to implement solutions in our production tools.
  • Implement vehicle simulation (desktop, DOE, DIL) and data analysis methods, to develop race winning solutions through:
  • Race-specific setup refinement.
  • Conceptual studies to guide big-picture development efforts.
  • Competitor analysis and event characterization.
  • Race strategy optimization.
  • Clearly present findings, recommendations, and analysis results through well organized and actionable reports and in-person follow-up.
  • Work independently and under supervision to accomplish assigned tasks, suggest new tasks based on communicated and/or perceived needs while considering group, program and organizational priorities.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Physics, or related subjects.
  • 3+ years of experience in a top-level motorsports series including NASCAR, IMSA, F1, IndyCar, WEC, or similar.
  • Experience with race car setup, race event preparation, technical inspection, race procedures and exposure to basic race and fuel strategy.
  • Knowledge of simulation workflows in a professional motorsports organization including both offline simulation and the DIL simulator.
  • Experience using simulation tools to optimize vehicle performance.
  • Competency with engineering programming languages: Python, MATLAB, or equivalent.
  • Experience analyzing on-track performance through both application of vehicle dynamics principles and statistical methods.
  • Strong organization skills, forward thinking mentality, and superb attention to detail.
  • Ability to multi-task in a dynamic, constantly evolving environment, with exceptional work ethic and integrity.
  • Ability to travel 6-8 times per year domestically with potential for some international travel (1-3 events).
Benefits
  • From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions.
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
organization skillsforward thinkingattention to detailmulti-taskingwork ethicintegritycommunicationcollaborationindependenceproblem-solving