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.
As a Technology Engineering Industrial Placement (Applied Science), you will be immersed amongst a team that plays an important role in fuelling our ambition of being the best team on and off the race track. Harnessing the very best of Formula 1 technology and capability you will be involved in creating design solutions for a diverse range of niche commercial clients, realising these designs within a digital platform, supporting the design through manufacture and on to completion. You will be guided throughout this process and encouraged to consider strength and durability, ease of manufacture, cost, and failure modes. This is an exciting role working on various projects and gaining experience in multiple areas.
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.
As a Composite Machining Industrial Placement you will be working collaboratively as part of a small group, where you will apply your thoughtful and inquisitive nature to exciting projects that improve our planning and manufacturing processes, enhance our tools and methodologies, or solve problems with our car manufacturing. You will have the opportunity to be involved in the process development for cutting edge manufacturing technology.
Your duties will include development of processes in manufacture such as planning of machine workload, digitised check sheet processes and the introduction of new technologies.
Supported and mentored by experienced engineers, you will see your skills develop over your time with us. You will return to university to complete your studies having enjoyed an experience that helped you grow as an engineer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
With reductions in track testing time, our ability to accurately and quickly test in-house becomes ever more important. As a Research and Development Design Industrial Placement, we will provide training in CAD design and engineering drawing such that you can take ownership of design projects within our test laboratory and dyno facilities. This role includes:
As a Research and Development Dyno or Lab Industrial Placement you will offer engineering support to the operations teams within one of our two main R&D facilities – the Dyno and the Test Lab. This role includes:
As an Experimental Measurement and Data Industrial Placement, you will make a significant contribution to enabling the team to learn at a greater rate by improving the quality of the data available for decision making. You will use your innate curiosity and creativity to quickly understand technical problems and contribute to solutions. This role includes:
Harnessing the power of simulation and data is of critical important to optimising the performance and reliability of the car on track. As a Research and Development Simulation Industrial Placement you will apply an engineering mindset to the modelling and analysis of mechanical and fluidic systems. We will train you in the use of our software packages and coding languages to be able to take ownership of projects across the year. This role includes:
As a Reliability and Engineering Process Industrial Placement, you will be involved in design reviews, feedback resolution, part design, trackside information analysis, improving our engineering processes & working directly with all facilities which contribute towards the reliable running of our race cars and boats. With the support of your manager, you will work on wide-ranging projects which will bring performance via improving our reliability and efficiency. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with departments such as car build, design, manufacturing, race engineering, and the race team. Previous project examples include:
We work closely with Design, Engineering and Operational areas within the Team and also our external suppliers to produce the best quality components and assemblies which are used to create the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 car.
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As a Vehicle Dynamics Industrial Placement or a Simulation and Modelling Industrial Placement, you will join a department focussed 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 requests 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.
As a Wind Tunnel Research & Development 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.
