# Performance Engineer - Motorsport

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

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## Description

We are recruiting for a Performance Engineer to join our Motorsport department based in Woking.

As the Performance Engineer, you will be a key member of the Motorsport Engineering team focusing on our GT3/GT4 cars, systems and performance.

You will have a keen eye for detail, to understand data and strong communication skills to work with our customers, to extract the best out of the car, while maintaining vehicle reliability.

**Responsibilities**

- Racecar modelling and simulation

- Racecar data and performance analysis

- Competitor performance review

- Trackside support for development testing

- Supporting dyno rig testing and laboratory test for system performance and reliability-related activities

- Supporting testing and validation of the complete vehicle and its Sub-systems

- Developing technical capabilities and tools as required by the business

**Requirements**

- Educated to Degree level in an Engineering or Computer Science Discipline or similar experience

- Model-based application software coding in MATLAB/Simulink

- Ability to code and willingness to learn different coding languages if requirements dictate

- “Can-do" attitude and ability to work under pressure

- Personal interest in racecar and driver performance analysis

- Previous experience in a Motorsport environment

- Experience in Powertrain or transmission control systems development

- Full vehicle-based software calibration

**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

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

- Generous parental leave policies

## Skills

### Required
- MATLAB/Simulink
- model-based application software coding
- data analysis
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- Powertrain or transmission control systems development
- full vehicle-based software calibration

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