Industrial Placement Opportunities

Aerodynamics

As an Aerodynamics Industrial Placement with us you will apply your thoughtful and inquisitive nature to exciting projects that improve the aerodynamic performance of our car, enhance our tools and methodologies, or solve problems on our customer projects relating to fluid flow. Depending on your specific placement within the Aerodynamics Department, you could find yourself testing in our on-site wind tunnel, evaluating different concepts with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), modelling your ideas using Computer-Aided Design (CAD), or applying your programming skills to develop new analysis tools. Working collaboratively as part of a small group, you will enjoy the same responsibilities and creative freedoms as our full-time employees, while developing your skills and making a very real contribution to the performance of our Team.

Aerodynamic Design

As an Aerodynamics Design Industrial Placement, you will bring a passion for design and problem solving and excitement about the opportunity to develop your skills and understanding to practical engineering challenges. Working alongside our Aerodynamicists and Designers and collaborating as part of a small team, your role will cover our main design disciplines of Surfacing and Model Design. You will play your part in improving the quality, efficiency and accuracy of designs to support the aero development. You will be using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) to generate aero surfaces that are compliant to Technical Regulations as well as designing components for our state-of-the-art wind-tunnel model. Additionally, you will support our capability and methodology through programming or process improvements.

Car Build

As a Car Build Industrial Placement, you will be involved in part packaging design, departmental audits, recording metrics & organising equipment calibration for the Build department. With the support of your manager, you will be the main point of contact for the various external suppliers and contractors we use for a variety of tasks, organising deliveries and scheduling the work with the Build department. On top of the main responsibilities of the role you will have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects. Examples include increasing the efficiency of our rigs, designing tooling for assemblies, or creating and maintaining code to automate tasks.

Composite Design

As a Composites Design Industrial Placement, you will become an integral part of our design group. We are responsible for the Chassis, Transmission Carrier, Crash Structures, Wings and Floor/Bodywork, so you will have the scope to work on a wide range of car components. You will design and develop composite components and assemblies for the car, participate in project work covering the whole process from tooling design through to detailed engineering drawings for components and assemblies, support the components through feedback for manufacturing queries and resolving any trackside reliability issues, work with our process group to create laminate definition information, and support other car design groups (such as Powertrain, Mechanical, or Electronics) with design and release of CAD geometry and drawings during the critical launch car and build periods.

Composite Manufacturing

As a Composite Manufacturing Industrial Placement, you will find yourself creating the manufacturing methods for some of the most complex carbon fibre structures such as the chassis, suspension, wings and engine components. Utilising CATIA 3D Experience you will turn designed parts and drawings into the individual plies our highly skilled laminators require to build these components. Implementing our detailed training programme to produce laser projections for accurate ply placement and designing tooling to improve part quality. You will take an active role in root cause investigations to ensure we are able to get parts to the track in the quickest possible time and at the lowest cost without compromising quality or performance. Applying the knowledge acquired within your degree to help us develop new technologies faster than anyone else on the grid.

You will be working within a small department and quickly enjoy the same freedom and responsibilities as a member of the team; actively contributing to and, in time, leading your own components. You will be coached and supported by a team of experienced engineers, ensuring you learn our processes and methodologies as quickly as possible helping you to grow as an engineer along the way.

Control Systems

As a Control Systems Industrial Placement you will be assisting with the development and release cycle of on-board embedded control system code using Matlab Simulink, on-car systems calibration and analysis using car data and metric tools using Matlab and data viewer analysis platform, functionality development of the physical and virtual control testing environments and provide support for new and existing powertrain systems / components during inhouse dyno testing and support in house Virtual Track Tests.

Cost Analysis

As a Cost Analyst Industrial Placement, you will be supporting the Cost Analysis team with their cost cap compliance activities working closely with the Design Office, Operations, the Race Team and the Finance Team. Key accountabilities include: costing data quality improvements and data analysis; process optimisation and automation; cost reduction; FIA / Finance reporting; Non-F1 activities; working with the team to ensure consistency of approach and methodologies, aligning processes and standardising practice.

Electronics

As an Industrial Placement in Electronics you will work on projects that make a direct impact on our F1 programme and your contribution will be critical to the ongoing success of these projects both on and off car. Our placement is flexible to suit your skills and interests as we have a wide range of activities undertaken by the department. Some of these activities within the Electronics department include electro-mechanical design, analogue and digital circuit design, embedded software, harness design, system testing verification and electronic fault finding.

You will spend your time working on projects that suit your skills and interests, alongside experienced members of the team who will mentor, teach, inspire and motivate. Interests would include one or more of these areas: Mechanical design, Analogue and Digital electronics, Software, PCB Design and Layout, Harness Design, Circuit Testing and Electronics Fault Finding.

Engineering Software

As an Engineering Software Industrial Placement, you will be involved in all aspects of the development, deployment and support of the off-car software stack, supporting the operation of the simulators, R&D facilities, and race cars. You will immerse yourself in remote operational support of events, providing real-time monitoring and ensuring robustness of the data production processes that support high-performance engineering decisions. You will also interface with stakeholders across the business to provide assistance, understand issues and feature requests, and work with the wider group to plan work going forward.

Machine Shop

As a Metallic Machining Industrial Placement, you will be an integral part of our Production Engineering team, supporting the machining operations that produce critical metallic components for both the race car and wind tunnel programmes.

You’ll work closely with our race car machining department, gaining exposure to the manufacture of high-precision components such as gearbox casings, suspension uprights, axles, and other parts that are central to race car performance. You'll also support our aero machining team in delivering front and rear wings, aero structures, and 60% scale model components for our wind tunnel testing programme.

Your work will involve process improvement projects that focus on increasing throughput, reducing non-conformance, and enhancing the automation of routine tasks to improve efficiency and data visibility across both machine shops. You will help streamline performance reporting and develop new digital systems and methods to reduce manual inputs on the shop floor.

Operations Data Analysis

You’ll help to evaluate how our composite manufacturing team operates and provide ideas on how we can improve efficiency and effectiveness across our operation. The composite manufacturing team is large with almost 200 employees working across areas such as laminating, rapid prototype, machining and fitting. This placement

Our Operations Data Analysis responsibilities include ERP interrogation to analyse our operational data sets, creation and development of dashboards and visual tools to provide clear and concise data points for our operational leadership team.

Reporting to the Head of Composite Manufacturing you will be supporting the manufacturing team with their operational and cost cap compliance activities working across the manufacturing organisation you’ll have the opportunity to work with operations, purchasing, planning, manufacturing engineering and design. This is an ideal position for an inquisitive engineering student to gain valuable experience in the operational and financial activities of a world leading motorsport team.

Powertrain Integration

The Powertrain Integration group is responsible for the layout, design and management of a number of key performance and reliability functions of the F1 car, namely the gearbox, hydraulics, clutch, PU cooling systems, fuel system, pneumatics and exhausts.

As a Powertrain Integration industrial placement, you will work alongside our experienced engineers and take ownership of a variety of design and capability projects in support of our current and future F1 Powertrain programmes. The design projects will see you work for one of our Lead Powertrain Engineers delivering performance directly to the car and will see you produce parts and manufacturing drawings as part of upgrade and fault-fix programmes. The capability projects are longer-term projects across your placement and offer the ability to collaborate closely with our Build, Dyno and Test & Development departments to improve our reliability.

Race Team

As a Race Engineering Industrial Placement or Race Strategy Industrial Placement, you will work as part of the race team running support systems and providing analysis of data for both race and test events. Outside of these events you will contribute towards development and automation of tools. Additional key accountabilities are: to provide race and test support, factory based, for all events during the year; to assist with pre- and post-event analysis tasks for each event covering data and competitor information; to run and monitor a range of software systems during race and test events, including input parameterisation; to assist with live analysis and support during free-practice, qualifying and races; carry out ad-hoc tasks, for example investigating trends in data or competitor behaviour and to develop and automate tools and analyse routines in Python and/or JavaScript.

Reliability and Engineering Process

To finish first, you must first finish. Reliability and Engineering Process sit at the heart of our team, ensuring our cars perform at their peak while finishing every race. They also drive our engineering capabilities forward identifying opportunities to accelerate car development and deliver updates to the car faster. This is a unique opportunity, offering exposure to the complete F1 car lifecycle — from concept to racing — whilst involving you in projects across the entire car. You’ll be directly involved from day one, working on real engineering challenges and evolving the capabilities and processes that keep our cars competitive.

Collaborating with engineers and technicians across Design, Build, R&D, and the Race Team, you’ll tackle real-world problems. Many of your projects will be responses to on-track reliability issues, giving you exposure to a wide range of technical topics and deepening your understanding of F1 car systems.

Research and Development: Design and Testing

As a Research and Development Design Industrial Placement, you will offer design support across two of our main on-site test facilities – the Dyno and the Test Laboratory. The projects associated with this role will include:

• Design of interfaces between car components and test rigs to enable performance testing, reliability prove-out or production sign-off.

• Design of “Proof of Concept” installations to demonstrate the validity of a new technology or supplier.

• Support the capture of requirements and development of specifications for new testing facilities and capabilities.

• Helping with commercialisation of our high-end test capabilities

• Own feedbacks for testing rigs – working on immediate containments for issues and developing long term countermeasures to ensure that the next time we perform the experiment it is better than the last.

As a Research and Development Testing Industrial Placement, you will offer engineering support to the operations teams within one of our two main test facilities – the Dyno and the Test Laboratory. The projects associated with this role will include:

• Providing Design & Engineering support critical performance events such as our Virtual Track Test (Dyno) and Seven Poster Dynamics Test (Lab), to push lap time and reliability to the track.

• Lead and conduct Materials tests programmes.

• Produce designs and drawings to resolve feedback via CAD.

• Manage our Engineering Group FDM 3D Printer requests to execute rapid prototyping

• Develop and streamline our existing test processes and methods.

• Produce and critically analyse data insights to enable decisions to be made concisely and right first time.

• Support with knowledge capture when we learn something through a success or a failure, so that we always strive to perform the experiment better next time.

Research and Development: Simulation and Test and Development

As Research and Development Industrial placements, there are two different opportunities available:

• Design Simulation Placement – providing simulation and analysis support across all areas of the car, from Powertrain and Mechanical to Composites and Electronics.

• T&D Engineering Placement – improving the quality of data available to the team through experimental testing, analysis and measurement capability.

Whichever placement you join, you will be contributing directly to understanding of car behaviour, supporting track and test events, and helping the team make better engineering decisions.

Technology Engineering

As a Technology Engineering Industrial Placement, you will be an integral part of the team. We have 2 roles available: one focusing on creating or updating the technology used in the development of F1, and one working on exciting customer programmes in many sectors including motorsport and aerospace. Customer programmes have an impressive client portfolio which means the work is varied, challenging and exciting. Ingenuity, lateral thinking and problem solving are just some of the requirements that you will need, but a keenness to participate with and learn from the existing team is paramount.

Vehicle Performance

In the Performance Department you will be focusing on developing and applying world class simulation & modelling capabilities with the aim of maximising the performance/competitiveness of our Formula One car. You’ll collaborate with a diverse group of talented engineers, contributing to real performance projects, from advancing cutting-edge simulation tools to supporting race weekends in our driver-in-the-loop simulator.

We have several placements in this department:

• Vehicle Dynamics

• Vehicle Thermal Performance

• Tyre Group

• Simulator

• Simulation and Modelling

• Performance Simulation

The learning and experiences you will encounter in these roles will lay an excellent foundation for a wide range of potential career paths in Formula One. Previous IPs in the Performance Department have since progressed into race engineers, machine learning engineers and performance simulation engineers within the team.