# Ford Racing Performance Engineering Manager

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Concord, NC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $141,700-$268,300
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Motorsport
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford Racing is seeking a talented, committed engineer to be a part of their motorsports team as the Performance Engineering Manager.

In this position, you will lead Ford Racing's elite competition performance engineering team, overseeing vehicle dynamics, aerodynamic development, advanced simulation, trackside engineering, and data analysis to maximize the on-track and off-road competitiveness of their race cars.

**Responsibilities**

- Strategic Leadership & Global Team Management:

- Lead, mentor, and grow a newly formed, globally integrated Performance Engineering department.

- Manage resource allocation, balance operational budgets, and build technical capability across the team.

- Act as the primary bridge between Ford Racing and Ford's production vehicle programs, ensuring that racetrack innovations are captured and integrated into Ford's future road cars.

- Own overall vehicle performance delivery aligned to racing season schedules and program timing.

- Multi-Disciplinary Systems Integration:

- Lead the interface between mechanical powertrain, eDrive systems, chassis architecture, and digital performance features, optimizing the entire vehicle as a cohesive, high-performance system.

- Direct a specialized team of aerodynamicists in the design, wind-tunnel testing, CFD modeling, and track validation of all Ford Racing products.

- Oversee the evaluation of suspension/steering kinematics, packaging constraints, track width, and tire sizing to push the absolute boundaries of mechanical capability within motorsports regulations.

- Simulation & Trackside Performance:

- Define and execute the optimization strategy for aerodynamics, power delivery, and vehicle dynamics in tight coordination with external race team and engineering partners.

- Lead the development and utilization of Driver-in-the-Loop (DiL) simulators, lap time simulation, and multi-body dynamics to accelerate pre-event setup and vehicle development.

- Oversee trackside data analysis strategy, ensuring the team effectively leverages telemetry, tire modeling, and simulation to drive continuous performance improvements.

**Qualifications**

- 10+ years of progressive engineering experience in motorsports and high-performance racing vehicle development

- Proven track record delivering both closed-course racetrack programs and high-speed desert/off-road racing programs

- Hands-on trackside race engineering experience, including developing vehicles setups and race-day decision-making

- 3+ years formally leading race engineering teams, managing performance, and developing technical talent

- Direct experience with race tire development, objective vehicle testing, and performance data analysis in a competitive racing environment

- Experience working within a race team structure , collaborating with drivers, crew chiefs, and race operations to execute a unified performance strategy

- Experience running Driver-in-the-Loop (DiL) simulation programs , developing session plans, working directly with drivers and race engineering teams to correlate simulator findings with on-track/on-trail setup and performance decisions

**Benefits**

- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

- Tuition assistance

- Established and active employee resource groups

- Paid time off for individual and team community service

- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day

- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time

## Skills

### Required
- vehicle dynamics
- aerodynamic development
- advanced simulation
- trackside engineering
- data analysis
- Driver-in-the-Loop (DiL) simulators
- lap time simulation
- multi-body dynamics
- telemetry
- tire modeling
- simulation

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field
- Active personal or professional involvement in competitive motorsports
- An established, high-level network within the global motorsports, vehicle development, or advanced simulation industries
- Experience managing multi-million dollar operational, testing, and program budgets

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