What are the responsibilities and job description for the Performance Engineer position at Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing?
Description
Rahal Letterman Lanigan is on the hunt for Performance Engineer to play a pivotal role in unlocking the full potential of car and driver performance. Collaborate closely with the Race Engineer to optimize on-track performance and contribute to high-stakes race strategy decisions. Beyond race day, you'll have the opportunity to lead innovative R&D projects tailored to your expertise, driving advancements that keep us at the forefront of motorsport excellence
Responsibilities
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/SKILLS:
Required
Rahal Letterman Lanigan is on the hunt for Performance Engineer to play a pivotal role in unlocking the full potential of car and driver performance. Collaborate closely with the Race Engineer to optimize on-track performance and contribute to high-stakes race strategy decisions. Beyond race day, you'll have the opportunity to lead innovative R&D projects tailored to your expertise, driving advancements that keep us at the forefront of motorsport excellence
Responsibilities
- Support the Race Engineer through analysis and reporting on various sources of data
- Create and use objective data evaluation methods for performance improvement and defining areas of development.
- Interact with team drivers reviewing, interpreting, comparing data to maximize driver/vehicle potential and increase overall performance
- Utilize vehicle simulation programs as applied to vehicle performance including lap time prediction, correlation methodologies, performance metric generation, tire data analysis, and modern set-up methodologies/studies
- Support the race engineers and team staff in race strategy preparation and execution
- Utilize programming skills and knowledge to improve and automate data analysis, reporting, and engineering operations
- Accuracy, attention to detail, and efficiency in analysis and reporting is a must
- Extensive travel (>50%), including team tests, races, and other events as directed
- Other duties as assigned
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/SKILLS:
Required
- BS in applicable engineering field such as Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, and/or, Computer
- Minimum 3 years of engineering experience in professional motorsport with a focus on performance, data acquisition, vehicle simulation, testing, or design
- Extensive experience analyzing race car data using WinTax, Pi Toolbox, ATLAS, Motec i2, or similar.
- Working knowledge of at least one high-level programming language such as Visual Basic, MATLAB, Python, C/C
- Attention to detail, organized, and able to multi-task in fast-paced environment
- Must be able to handle pressure and deliver under tight time constraints
- Previous high level motorsport engineering experience
- Experience building models for, correlating, and using lap time simulation to improve car setup and understand car behavior
- Control systems operation and programming
- Experience with Cosworth data loggers and controllers
- Analysis and optimization of KERS type hybrid systems in racing environment
- Working knowledge of CAD
- Competitive Salary
- Fast paced environment
- Full Medical and Ancillary Benefits
- On-site Human Performance Center
- New apparel
- Access to race day perks