Thermal Engineering Student Placement

Motorsport Network, LLC; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free daily food allowance

Free gym access

Fitness classes

Discounts with partners

Free barista coffee

Unlimited Red Bull

Job summary

Red Bull Racing & Technology is offering an Industrial Placement in the Research & Development Department. This one-year placement in Thermal Engineering will involve developing test rigs, analyzing thermal properties, and supporting the engineering team during race weekends at MK facilities.

You'll work on cooling systems, insulation materials, and simulations across 1D/2D/3D methods, collaborating with designers, managers, mechanics and experts to contribute to a championship-winning car.

Qualifications

• Applicants must be returning to higher education to study for at least 1 year after placement.

Responsibilities

• Develop new test rigs and run experiments to determine material thermal properties and validating thermal systems as well as cooling solutions of the car.
• Provide support on running and keeping up to date a cutting-edge technology thermal engineering laboratory.
• Support the race team during the race weekends analysing live track data of thermal systems via access to our operations room.
• Work on varying projects covering systems and parts of the whole car including brakes, cooling circuits, insulation materials and many more
• Development and correlation of fluid dynamic and 1D, 2D and 3D thermal simulations, based on a first-principals approach.
• Preparation of technical documentation to support your designs and experiments
• Developing problem solving and communication skills through working closely with designers, managers, mechanics and technical specialists from throughout the organisation

Job description

Motorsport is the world's most competitive engineering sector. At the pinnacle of motorsport, Formula One teams get to test their engineering prowess race by race against ultra-competitive peers in front of an audience measured in the hundreds of millions.

Working for Red Bull Racing is fundamentally different to working for any of our competitors. It has the technological expertise and facilities that you would come to expect from a world championship winning Formula One team but with an atmosphere that is uniquely Red Bull. Team spirit is the foundation of everything we do, with every job making a vital contribution to the development and racing of our Formula One cars.

The work is not only demanding but the pace of development so fast that your feet will barely touch the ground - but job satisfaction really does not get any better than the winning feeling of making a real contribution to a grand prix-winning car.

Red Bull Racing & Technology, Red Bull Powertrains and Red Bull Advanced Technologies are inviting candidates to apply for an Industrial Placement position within Research & Development Department.

Thermal Engineering:

The key accountabilities of this role are:

• Develop new test rigs and run experiments to determine material thermal properties and validating thermal systems as well as cooling solutions of the car.
• Provide support on running and keeping up to date a cutting-edge technology thermal engineering laboratory.
• Support the race team during the race weekends analysing live track data of thermal systems via access to our operations room.
• Work on varying projects covering systems and parts of the whole car including brakes, cooling circuits, insulation materials and many more
• Development and correlation of fluid dynamic and 1D, 2D and 3D thermal simulations, based on a first-principals approach.
• Preparation of technical documentation to support your designs and experiments
• Developing problem solving and communication skills through working closely with designers, managers, mechanics and technical specialists from throughout the organisation

To be eligible for this placement applicants must be returning to higher education to study for at least 1 year after their placement year. Confirmation of this should be in place at time of application. While we would like to open this opportunity up to all applicants these positions are intended to be a work placement for students currently undertaking higher education and is therefore the eligibility requirement. Please do not apply if you do not fall within the requirements for this position.

The placement will be for 1 year, starting in the summer of 2027.

Not only is this a fantastic opportunity to complete your student placement at our championship winning team, but it is also a great opportunity to work with some of the greatest talents in F1. A good salary is just the start, there are many other benefits too, such as a free daily food allowance, free gym access and fitness classes, multiple discounts and offers with our partners, free barista style coffee, unlimited Red Bull and much more!