Motorsports Senior Performance Engineer

General Motors; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading automotive company is seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to enhance on-track performance through innovative analysis methods and collaboration with engineering teams. This hybrid role involves developing performance metrics and optimizing vehicle setups for specific events. The successful candidate will work closely with various teams to improve analysis methods and present actionable insights.

Qualifications

• Experience in performance metrics and vehicle dynamics.
• Ability to prototype innovative ideas and validate against data.

Responsibilities

• Develop performance metrics and innovative analysis methods.
• Collaborate with teams to improve analysis methods and vehicle setups.
• Present findings and recommendations through organized reports.

Skills

Performance Analysis

Collaboration

Problem Solving

Tools

Simulation Tools

Analysis Tools

Job description

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Concord, NC three times per week, at minimum.

The Role

This role within the GM Motorsports Program involves developing performance metrics, conceptualizing innovative analysis methods, and implementing these techniques to enhance on-track performance. As a Senior Performance Engineer, you will primarily focus on validating, refining, and applying new tools and methods to optimize vehicle setups for specific events and to explore new directions for future vehicle development. Close collaboration with the Performance Engineering group and regular interaction with the broader GM Motorsports team and customer race teams are essential.

What You’ll Do

Collaborate with GM supported teams, GM engineering groups and GM personnel to:

• Understand analysis areas to target for greatest benefit

• Answer open questions across all GM Motorsports groups, building group knowledge

• Brainstorm new ways of achieving greater performance in targeted areas

• Train others developing understanding of underlying models and knowledge to execute regular analysis and reporting tasks

• Relay newest findings, current areas of development, and updates in tools and procedures to all relevant groups, internal and external

Continuously strive to improve GM Motorsports programs’ analysis methods and vehicle dynamics understanding by:

• Reimagining new and better solutions to common problems or questions

• Prototyping innovative ideas and validating these against track and test data

• Working with GM Software team to implement solutions in our production tools

• Pushing the boundaries of the current tool chain with a focus on a better understanding of the race vehicle, limits of the current tools, and opportunity to improve tools and techniques

Collaborate with GM core engineering and race series specific groups

• Conceptual studies to guide big-picture development efforts

• Explore the limits of latest simulation and analysis tools, determine best use, and implement techniques to improve on track performance

• Clearly present findings, recommendations, and analysis results through well organized and actionable reports and in-person follow-up

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