# Vehicle Dynamics Engineer - Steering

**Company**: McLaren Automotive
**Location**: Idiada
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351854

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## Description

We are seeking a Vehicle Dynamics Engineer – Steering to join our team at McLaren Automotive. As a Vehicle Dynamics Engineer – Steering, you will be responsible for supporting the definition, development, tuning, and validation of steering system performance and steering-related vehicle dynamics attributes across McLaren vehicle programs.

### Responsibilities

- Support the development and delivery of Steering attributes for current and future vehicle programs.

- Contribute to the definition and refinement of steering performance targets in line with vehicle requirements.

- Assist in the creation, maintenance, and execution of steering attribute development plans.

- Carry out vehicle modelling and simulation activities to assess steering system performance and support target achievement.

- Support steering system specification development, working closely with hardware, controls, and software teams.

- Plan and execute vehicle testing activities to tune and calibrate steering-related systems.

- Analyze test data and provide recommendations for steering system improvements.

- Conduct objective and subjective vehicle evaluations on road, track, and proving ground environments.

- Support the investigation, root cause analysis, and resolution of steering-related issues identified during vehicle development.

- Validate steering performance against defined vehicle attribute targets.

- Track and report progress of assigned activities to project and technical leads.

- Support track testing and development activities for steering and wider vehicle dynamics systems.

- Collaborate across multiple departments to ensure successful integration of steering-related hardware and software functions.

- Contribute to the continuous improvement of steering development processes, tools, and methodologies.

### Requirements

- Experience in automotive vehicle dynamics, chassis systems, or steering system development.

- Good understanding of vehicle dynamics fundamentals and their influence on vehicle performance and customer perception.

- Knowledge of steering systems including Electric Power Steering (EPS) and their interactions with chassis and control systems.

- Understanding of suspension, tyres, and broader chassis systems.

- Experience with vehicle testing, data analysis, and system evaluation.

- Strong data analysis and problem-solving skills.

- Competent user of MATLAB and Simulink.

- Experience with vehicle dynamics simulation tools is desirable.

- Familiarity with vehicle data analysis and data acquisition tools.

- Basic understanding of control systems and calibration processes.

- Knowledge of vehicle validation and verification activities.

- Familiarity with data acquisition and analysis tools.

- Understanding of the objective vehicle testing and subjective vehicle evaluation techniques.

- High-performance driving experience or advanced driving qualification would be advantageous.

- Experience with model-based development methodologies would be beneficial.

### Education

- Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or a related discipline.

- Postgraduate qualification in Vehicle Dynamics, Automotive Engineering, or Control Systems is advantageous.

- High competency in spoken and written English.

### Benefits

- Structured career development framework

- 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days

- Enhanced company pension scheme

- Discretionary annual bonus award

- Private medical insurance and health cash plan

- Life assurance benefit

- Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ service

- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

- Generous parental leave policies

- A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice

## Skills

### Required
- MATLAB
- Simulink
- vehicle dynamics
- steering systems
- Electric Power Steering (EPS)
- data analysis
- problem-solving

### Nice to have
- vehicle dynamics simulation tools
- model-based development methodologies
- high-performance driving experience

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