Tyre Performance Engineer

placeKidlington calendar_month 

Tyre Performance Engineer

Brief overview
  • Role: Tyre Performance Engineer
  • Location: Oxfordshire
  • Role type: Permanent
  • Salary: Up to £55,000 DOE (negotiable)
  • Working type: On-site working

Recruit 12 has an exciting opportunity for a Tyre Performance Engineer to work with top team working in the field of electric motorsport, with strong performances across the Formula-E Championship.

You’ll be supporting event preparation and trackside optimization of tyre usage and cooperation with the factory-based engineers to enhance tyre simulation tools.

Role and Responsibilities
  • Optimize tyre usage during track tests and race events to ensure peak performance in qualifying and races
  • Support trackside tyre performance engineering through test planning and analysis
  • Prepare pre-event tyre reports with recommendations for tyre preparation and usage
  • Provide data-driven feedback for tyre model development used in simulations and simulators
  • Assist in post-event tyre correlation with drivers and report findings
  • Communicate tyre performance data to drivers and race engineers
Required Skills
  • Strong knowledge and background in Vehicle Dynamics
  • Experience in Vehicle Dynamics modelling (e.g. Matlab, Simulink, SimPack, Dymola, Adams)
Desirable (not essential)
  • Trackside experience in a high-level motorsport series
  • Trackside experience in managing tyre preparation
  • Tyre modelling experience (e.g. Matlab, Simulink)
  • Experience in developing tyre thermo-mechanical, high-fidelity, or physical models (e.g. brush models, FE models)
  • Experience in tyre testing (indoor and outdoor), including planning, execution, and data analysis
Benefits
  • Bonus scheme
  • Aviva Pension
  • Group Life Assurance & Group Income Protection
  • Electric Car Scheme
  • Health Cash Plan
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • 26 days holiday plus public holidays and the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days
  • Childcare Benefits
  • Free on-site gym access and discounted national memberships
electric_boltImmediate start

Supplier Performance Engineer

apartmentOrganOxplaceOxford, 5 mi from Kidlington
a motivated Supplier Performance Engineer to join our team. Position Summary Your mission in your role of Supplier Performance Engineer will be to continuously measure, analyse, and improve supplier performance, while managing risks and crises, to enhance...
thumb_up_altRecommended

Senior GPU Software Engineer

apartmentIC ResourcesplaceOxford, 5 mi from Kidlington
for a Senior GPU Software Engineer to assist in establishing the foundation of their tech stack. You'll be maintaining GPU core and improving the build system, focusing on performance, scalability and performance. You'll also be involved in monitoring system...
apartmentBennett & GameplaceOxford, 5 mi from Kidlington
Job Profile Our client is one of the UK's leading building services engineering consultancies who are currently recruiting for an Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join them from their Oxford office on a full time, permanent basis. In this role...