Industrial Placement Opportunities

Different disciplines. One team.

Learn more about the different Industrial Placement opportunities available with a deeper dive into the details of each business area.

Graduate Aerodynamicists

We are looking for curious graduates, who are passionate about aerodynamics, to join our Team working in our Applied Science business area, supporting a portfolio of activities. A prior interest in sailing or motorsport is not required: we are more interested in your ability to apply your skills and aerodynamic understanding to practical engineering challenges. By interpreting trends and developing understanding, you will create innovative engineering solutions to real problems. As a valued member of our Aerodynamics Department, your ideas and skills will make a tangible contribution to the Team.

Graduate Aerodynamicists

Graduate CAE Engineer (1 year FTC)

Working as a member of the CAE Process Team, this exciting opportunity will see you being responsible for projects that deliver enhancements to our software and data analysis capabilities. You will thrive working in a fast paced and ever-changing environment of Formula One, as this role offers you the opportunity to provide a significant contribution to on-track car performance and reliability. We will be looking for you to critically review our existing data analysis systems to identify future opportunities for functionalities and integrations.

Graduate CAE Engineer (1 year FTC)

Graduate Control Systems Engineer

Based at our state-of-the-art campus in the UK, you will be part of a team that is responsible for supporting the control systems at customer events as this role will see the right person supporting both trackside and at the factory. You will be required to generate prompt and accurate reports to communicate faults, concerns and potential improvements during events. Within our Applied Science division, you will be developing control systems from concept to application, covering all aspects of design, calibration and signoff.

Graduate Control Systems Engineer

Graduate Control Systems Engineer – America's Cup

The Graduate Control Systems Engineer role will have responsibility for the design and implementation of control systems destined for the race yacht and test rigs, from high level flight control laws to low level control loops for electro-hydraulics. In our Applied Science division, you will be working with a dedicated team of control systems engineers and within the Performance group, the successful candidate will need to assist the team in meeting project requirements and help deliver a highly capable and robust set of control systems.

Graduate Control Systems Engineer – America's Cup

Graduate Dyno Test Engineer

For our Graduate Dyno Test Engineer, working within the Formula One team, we are looking for a talented graduate to join the team as we look ahead to new Powertrain regulations for 2026. Working collaboratively across the technical and operational areas of the business you will be responsible for the setup, execution, and reporting of experiments and tests in a fast paced and ever-changing environment. This is a role where you will provide a significant contribution to on-track car performance and reliability, as well as contribute to our long-term Research and Development goals.

Graduate Dyno Test Engineer

Graduate Mechanical Design Engineer

Within our Applied Science division, we are looking for graduate engineers who have an open and curious mind, a creative approach to engineering problems and are keen to develop themselves further in a demanding team orientated role. Using a creative, analytical approach, alongside detailed design work, you will support senior engineers with large projects as well as projects of your own. Supported and mentored by experienced engineers, you will develop your skills and knowledge, connecting the theory you have learnt into practice.

Graduate Mechanical Design Engineer

Graduate Research and Development Engineer

The Graduate R&D Engineer will play an active role within the Team’s Applied Science division, working across a range of projects according to the variable needs of the design and development programmes. The position will require periods of individual working on specific projects and working closely with groups of focused engineers to achieve larger project goals. The R&D Graduate would work closely with the Lead Materials Science Engineer to plan, execute and document work carried out, and all that this entails.

Graduate Research and Development Engineer

Experimental Aerodynamics

As an Experimental Aerodynamics Industrial Placement, you will contribute to the development and application of the latest technology to the wind-tunnel. You will work on projects that solve interesting and challenging problems which require a broad range of skills such as: interpretation and presentation of data, mechanical design, CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) , electronics, optics, and programming. You will enjoy working within a motivated team and be confident in understanding problems as they arise and deciding how best to plan your work in resolving them. You will be able to effectively communicate progress and results on your projects whilst contributing ideas to others.

Experimental Measurement & Data

As an Experimental Measurement & Data Industrial Placement, you will make a significant contribution to enabling the team to learn at a greater rate by improving the quality of data available. You will join a small and dynamic team and use your innate curiosity and creativity to quickly understand technical problems and contribute to their solution. Over the course of the placement, you will collaborate with other technology areas. This may include devising and following experiments, analysing experimental data, and improving our capability to produce accurate and reliable measurements.

Powertrain Integration

As a Powertrain Integration Industrial Placement, you will work alongside experienced engineers and take ownership of a variety of capability and design projects in support of our current and future powertrain programmes. The capability projects are longer-term across your placement and offer the ability to collaborate closely with our Build, Dyno and Test & Development departments to improve our reliability. The design activities will see you produce parts and manufacturing drawings as part of upgrade and fault-fix programmes – putting your stamp on our race car. We also support external high-performance engineering activities through our Applied Science division which offers exposure to applying our motorsport Powertrain skillsets to other industrial applications.

Race Team

As a Race Engineering Industrial Placement or Race Strategy Industrial Placement, you will work as part of the race team, at the factory, 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 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 opponent behaviour and to develop and automate tools and analyse routines in Python and/or JavaScript.

Test & Development

As a Test & Development Industrial Placement you will work within a small design group and a larger lab test group. Test & Development has a very broad remit and you will get the opportunity to support in the design and delivery of projects for the equipment used to test and sign off car components and set up and run the F1 car at the track. You will be working with 3D CAD models, assemblies and produce 2D drawings, with supporting definitions and documentations for manufacturing information. There will be the opportunity to discuss technical concepts and find solutions to problems by applying your interpretive skills, attention to detail and dependable judgment.

Vehicle Dynamics

As a Vehicle Dynamics Industrial Placement or a Simulation and Modelling Industrial Placement, you will join a department focused on developing mathematical simulation & modelling capabilities, understanding and improving vehicle performance. Your direct responsibilities may include areas such as: analysis of track and simulation data to optimise car performance; development of new vehicle models and simulations to cater for specific request from the Performance Department or Race Engineering; provide factory-based support to the Race Team and aid the decision-making at race events; advance analysis techniques to better understand and quantify vehicle performance; supporting the testing and regression of new and current simulations, support testing in the driver-in-the-loop simulator.

Business Support Areas

Commercial

As a Commercial Industrial Placement, you will be contributing to our revenue-generating opportunities, principally managing the acquisition of partners. This represents an outstanding opportunity for anyone who is seeking to start a career in top tier global sports marketing. You will undertake research and analysis of brands, develop insights (supported with appropriate data) and produce content to support sponsorship proposals within our Commercial team in the Marketing Department. You will support on, and take ownership of, certain strategic commercial projects related to Mercedes F1 – under the guidance of senior team members. This could include initiatives related to our Retail, Merchandising & Licensing programme, E-commerce etc. Providing overall administrative support to the commercial team including event planning, gifting, and SAP.

Communications

As a Communications Industrial Placement you will gain hands-on experience across an array of teams within Communications and the wider Marketing function, working within a fast-paced, forward-thinking sports team. You will facilitate delivery to our parent brand, Mercedes-AMG, working closely to support our Mercedes-AMG Cooperation Manager. You will also support the Communications Team with a blend of project-based and administrative tasks to contribute to the goals of the team and the wider business.

Creative Design

As a Creative Design Industrial Placement, you will gain valuable hands-on experience in a very exciting and fast-paced sector. The remit of the brand and design team is wide and covers many areas of design including all brand, trackside, internal, clothing, social, hospitality, interiors, and commercial design elements. You will support the brand design team with creative projects to contribute to reaching their goals and those of the wider business. Some key accountabilities include: creative ideation, post-race image management, pre-race asset creation, stationery development, hospitality design, commercial proposals, digital content creation, internal branding, and weekly design deck overviews.

IT (Network)

As an IT Network Industrial Placement in our Core Technology Team, you will be a valued member of the IT Department, bringing your analytical nature and high standards to a range of range of exciting, real-world challenges. Working collaboratively across the IT Department, your ideas and skills will make a tangible contribution to the performance of our team, both on and off the track, working to support, operate and evolve our networking capabilities. During this placement you will have the opportunity to work with industry leading networking technologies in fields such as data centre, campus and wireless networking, perimeter security and associated software systems.

Legal

As a Legal Industrial Placement, you will be supported as you pick up and manage your own workload, including tasks such as operating our contract management platform to execute NDAs, drafting and negotiating contracts and carrying out legal research and analysis. In doing so, you will gain hands-on experience in the main legal areas that concern a Formula One team including commercial, intellectual property, compliance, data protection and sports regulation and governance. Your work could also expand beyond the Legal Department, you will be given the opportunity to co-operate with and advise different areas of the business including Purchasing, Commercial, E-Commerce, Marketing, Communications, Travel and HR as well as more engineering-specific areas such as Applied Science.

Marketing Operations

As the Marketing Operations Industrial Placement you will support the various functions within the Department involved in the delivery and activation of contractual rights for our Partner and Supplier brands. Assisting the Partnerships, Hospitality, Events, Merchandise and Clothing teams, the key accountabilities include the planning and implementation of Partner activations, events and guest programmes; creating and maintaining key documents and platforms including brochures and toolkits for internal and Partner use, tracking and reporting of activations and contractual entitlements, and assisting in the inventory and distribution of team clothing, merchandise, gifts and operational items required by the team during the Grand Prix season.

Vacancies

At the heart of our performance are our people. Every member of our team has a voice and plays their part in contributing to our successes on and off the track. We welcome applications from everyone and are committed to attracting, recruiting and retaining the most talented individuals.

Team

We design. We manufacture. We race. Our team has set a new benchmark for success, winning consecutive Drivers’ and Constructors’ World Championships in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, and the Constructors’ Championship in 2021.

Facilities

Our team operates from a state-of-the-art 60,000 square metres technology campus in Brackley, housing cutting-edge facilities for the design, development, manufacture, assembly, and operation of Championship-winning Formula One cars.

Who We Are

We want to build the greatest team in the history of our sport. Whether working in our Operations, Technical, or Business Support functions, we are all in. Every individual plays their part. No stone is left unturned in the chase for every millisecond.