F1 Power Unit Reliability & Damage Modeler

Motorsport Network, LLC; Concord (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

Private healthcare

401(k) with company match

Life insurance

32 days of annual leave

On-site gym

Job summary

GM Performance Power Units in Concord, NC seeks a highly skilled Damage Modeler to support life predictions for its Formula 1 Power Unit. You will work in Reliability, interfacing with design, materials, and test teams to ensure robust life estimates under multi-mechanism loading.

The role emphasizes physics-based damage modeling, data-driven updates from on-track telemetry, and close collaboration across engineering disciplines to enable race-ready reliability outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Mechanical/Automotive/Aerospace with focus on structural mechanics or fracture mechanics.
• 5+ years in structural integrity, lifing, fatigue or damage-tolerance role (motorsport preferred).
• Hands-on experience developing or applying damage models for real hardware under multi-mechanism loading.
• Experience correlating analytical life predictions with test/field evidence and refining models.

Responsibilities

• Develop, validate and maintain physics-based damage accumulation models for PU components (LCF, HCF, creep, TMF).
• Define material fatigue/creep databases from published data and test-derived values.
• Translate stress/strain outputs and thermal analyses into life consumption estimates with uncertainty bounds.
• Develop load spectra from ATLAS telemetry and automate data pipelines with Reliability Data Engineer.
• Collaborate with design, materials, reliability teams; support FMEA with quantitative life estimates.
• Communicate results clearly to stakeholders and maintain a living lifing document.

Skills

Fatigue & damage mechanics

FEA tools (Abaqus/ANSYS)

Telemetry data analysis (ATLAS)

Python or MATLAB

Lifecycle modeling (NASGRO/AFGROW)

Education

Bachelor's in Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering

Tools

Abaqus

ANSYS

NASGRO

AFGROW

ATLAS

Python

MATLAB

Job description

GM Performance Power Units in Concord, NC seeks a highly skilled Damage Modeler to support life predictions for its Formula 1 Power Unit. You will work in Reliability, interfacing with design, materials, and test teams to ensure robust life estimates under multi-mechanism loading.

The role emphasizes physics-based damage modeling, data-driven updates from on-track telemetry, and close collaboration across engineering disciplines to enable race-ready reliability outcomes.