# Principal Vehicle Performance Engineer

**Company**: TGR Haas F1 Team
**Location**: Banbury, Oxfordshire
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Motorsport

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## Description

TGR Haas F1 Team, a stalwart of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship, is seeking a Principal Vehicle Performance Engineer to join their team in Banbury, UK.

As a Principal Vehicle Performance Engineer, you will be responsible for defining car performance targets, identifying limitations, and delivering analysis across vehicle handling, tyres, and aerodynamic aspects of car performance. You will provide functional technical leadership across Vehicle Performance activities and drive the development of analysis methodologies and simulation capability to support car performance objectives.

Key responsibilities include:

- Supporting the definition of car and aerodynamic development targets aligned to performance objectives

- Developing class-leading assessment approaches to support wind tunnel weighting development and aero and mechanical upgrade proposals

- Identifying car weaknesses and prioritising improvement opportunities

- Delivering performance and vehicle handling analysis from simulation and track data

- Supporting the development and validation of vehicle simulation tools

- Providing functional technical leadership across Vehicle Performance activities

- Coordinating cross-functional activities with Aero, Vehicle Dynamics, Vehicle Performance, and Race Engineering

The ideal candidate will have a minimum BS degree in a STEM subject, significant experience in vehicle dynamics, simulation, track data, and aerodynamic data analysis in Formula One, and high understanding of F1 performance development tools and processes.

In return, the team offers a competitive salary, multiple rewards packages, competitive bonuses, and year-round health and wellbeing programs.

## Skills

### Required
- vehicle dynamics
- simulation
- aerodynamic data analysis
- Formula One
- project management
- cross-functional delivery
- leadership
- MATLAB
- Microsoft Office 365
- C#
- C++
- Modelica
- SimScape

### Nice to have
- symbolic and acausal modelling language
- object-oriented coding

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