Aero CFD & AI Intern — Motorsports Innovation

General Motors; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 19,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

GM Motorsports is seeking a Summer Intern to support aerodynamic development, working on CFD, testing, automation, data processing, and AI applications in engineering.

Hybrid role with reporting to the Charlotte Technical Center in Concord, NC; candidates must be pursuing a bachelor’s degree in physics, aerospace or mechanical engineering, or related fields and be available full-time during the summer.

Qualifications

• Pursuit of a bachelor’s degree in physics, mathematics, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, computational science, or a closely related field.
• Must be graduating after September 2027 or beyond.
• Able to work fulltime, 40 hours per week during the summer months.
• Demonstrated experience developing CFD surrogate models, reduced-order models, or other data-driven methods for performance prediction or flow-field inference.
• Strong foundation in mechanical design, aerodynamics, CFD, computer vision, or related areas.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve CFD workflows across CAD preparation, geometry cleanup, meshing, solver execution, post-processing, and automated reporting.
• Develop tools and methods for wind-tunnel aerodynamic testing, including test planning, instrumentation, data acquisition, controls, and data processing.
• Develop and validate machine-learning or surrogate models that improve aerodynamic performance prediction and flow-field inference.
• Develop AI-enabled tools that improve engineering productivity and accelerate analysis.
• Work with engineers to define requirements, evaluate results, document methods, and communicate recommendations.

Skills

CFD surrogate models

Reduced-order models

Machine learning

Scientific computing

Education

Bachelor's degree in physics etc

Tools

CAD software

Meshing tools

Version control

CI/CD

DevOps practices

Job description

GM Motorsports is seeking a Summer Intern to support aerodynamic development, working on CFD, testing, automation, data processing, and AI applications in engineering.

Hybrid role with reporting to the Charlotte Technical Center in Concord, NC; candidates must be pursuing a bachelor’s degree in physics, aerospace or mechanical engineering, or related fields and be available full-time during the summer.