# Tire or Performance Engineer

**Company**: OptimumG
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Salary will be commensurate with experience and is negotiable
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Motorsport

**Apply**: https://optimumg.com/careers/tire-performance-engineer?
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_af767645-b54

## Description

### Job Description

We are looking for a talented tire or performance engineer. In this position, you will be responsible for the following:

**Tire testing, modeling, and reporting** In-lab test and modeling of all the tire manufacturer motorsport tires. Responsibilities include:

- Interface between test facility and tire manufacturer

- Development of tire testing procedures

- Tire test attendance (in person or virtually)

- Test data processing, modeling, and reporting

**On-track testing and race events** Responsibilities at the track include but are not limited to:

- Pre-event analyses and simulation

- Support teams

- Support the teams with any tire related issues they have. This could be related to performance, consistency, tire wear, failure, etc.

- We could be suggesting different cambers, pressures, car setup, warm-up procedure, oven temperature, driver inputs, and strategy to improve performance or limit tire degradation.

- If we are assigned to work more closely with a specific team, we can strengthen our relationship and might be doing other tasks that related to performance engineering in general

- Good communication is an important skill to perform this part of the work

- Gathering of feedback from the teams to understand what the drivers and teams have to say about the tires or development tires, and report back to the tire manufacturer

- Post-event data review and reporting

- Correlation between findings in the in-lab testing and on-track events

This position requires domestic and international travel.

### Education & Experience

- Bachelor’s degree or higher in mechanical engineering or similar discipline

- Minimum of three years of experience in a similar position in series such as IMSA, WEC, ELMS, Formula 2, etc.

### General Skills

- Proactive and capable of working with little guidance

- Good problem-solving skills

- Good team player and communicator

- Capable of working in a fast-paced environment and under pressure

- Willing to travel and work flexible hours, including weekends, as required

- Excellent oral and written English communication

### Required Skills

- Good understanding of vehicle dynamics theory and application, simulation, and simulation validation

- Strong understanding of tires, suspension, and aerodynamics—as well as their interaction

- Tire models understanding and experience

- Experience with vehicle dynamics simulation software

- Proficiency in data analysis software programs (e.g., Motec i2, WinDarab, PI, Race Studio Analysis, etc.)

- Ability to develop internal tools/software for data processing and analysis

- Capable of using data processing and analysis as a decision-making tool

- Data-driven mindset

- Extremely organized and systematic approach to work

### Preferred Skills

- Tire testing experience (test procedure development or test data processing)

- Tire modeling experience

- Tire physics understanding

- Laboratory test experience (e.g., K&C, Post-Rig, Wind Tunnel)

- Programming knowledge (Matlab, Python, VBA, etc.)

- Proficiency in one of the following languages would be an additional asset: Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, or Spanish

Salary will be commensurate with experience and is negotiable

Can operate as an employee in the US or a contractor in the US or Europe

**To apply, please send an email to jobs@optimumg.com**

## Skills

### Required
- vehicle dynamics theory and application
- simulation and simulation validation
- tires, suspension, and aerodynamics
- tire models understanding and experience
- vehicle dynamics simulation software
- data analysis software programs
- data processing and analysis
- data-driven mindset
- extremely organized and systematic approach to work

### Nice to have
- tire testing experience
- tire modeling experience
- tire physics understanding
- laboratory test experience
- programming knowledge
- proficiency in one of the following languages: Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, or Spanish