Motorsports Performance Engineer – IndyCar

General Motors

Motorsports Performance Engineer focusing on IndyCar program analysis and performance insights. Collaborating with race teams and GM Motorsports to enhance vehicle dynamics and simulation tools.

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeConcord • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Python

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Assist GM IndyCar race teams in utilizing GM Motorsports toolchain and support race teams with vehicle performance insights: Utilize vehicle simulation tools, both offline and DiL simulator, to characterize event specific sensitivities and derive favorable vehicle configuration directions and setup recommendations.
Convey findings in regular written reports distributed to GM IndyCar Teams.
Develop race team understanding of simulation toolchain functionality and best modeling and analysis practices.
Support race teams and other GM Motorsports engineers in setup and use of Driver in Loop (DiL) simulators.
Correlate vehicle models, comparing logged track data with model output and develop relationships between performance and handling metrics and driver-perceived vehicle behavior.
Fit collected data and develop inputs for simulation modeling.
Mine prior event data for performance trends and characterize competitor performance by analyzing series-provided telemetry, timing and scoring data, and derived metrics from GM Motorsports race strategy tools.
Actively review quality of correlation, accuracy of previous recommendations, and process bottlenecks/weaknesses to identify areas of future enhancement.
Conceptualize and develop methods improvements and new tools to address identified issues and add value to customer race teams.
Provide engineering support for rig and track tests, developing test plans, performing data analysis, and teaching team personnel to use tools and interpret simulation output.
Travel to occasional IndyCar events to support at-track engineering efforts.
Build GM Motorsports program, by furthering global performance initiatives and transferring knowledge of team learnings and improved analysis methods across the GM motorsports group.
Collaborate with Performance group members supporting other series to transfer learnings and adopt most useful analysis and reporting methods developed across the group.
Provide recommendations consolidating the newest findings across the GM Motorsports groups to supported IndyCar teams.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or related subjects
Experience with automotive projects/vehicle performance/amateur motorsports including Formula SAE or similar College project teams, oval, road course, autocross or track day driving and car preparation.
Basic understanding of vehicle dynamics and vehicle performance , experience analyzing vehicle and driver behavior to improve performance.
Demonstrated experience using simulation tools to optimize vehicle performance
Proficient programing in python, MATLAB, or similar language
Experience analyzing on-track performance, defining performance metrics, and deriving actionable recommendations through application vehicle dynamics principles and statistical methods
Highly analytical, detail oriented, customer focused, with positive relationships and strong communicative skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

vehicle simulation toolsDriver in Loop (DiL) simulatorsdata analysisprogramming in Pythonprogramming in MATLABvehicle dynamicsperformance metricsstatistical methodsvehicle performance optimizationcorrelation analysis

Soft Skills

analyticaldetail orientedcustomer focusedstrong communication skillscollaborativeproblem solvingreport writingteachingrelationship buildingprocess improvement