Strategy Engineer
Permanent - Full TimeJob Overview
An exciting opportunity exists for a Strategy Engineer to join our Race Strategy team, playing a key role in delivering competitive, data‑driven race strategy support. This role blends live race decision‑making, advanced data analysis, and tool development, requiring close collaboration with multiple trackside and factory departments.
This is an opportunity to operate at the heart of race operations within a fast‑paced, performance‑driven environment, where accuracy, judgement, and communication are essential, and where your work can have an immediate and visible impact on race execution.
This is an opportunity to operate at the heart of race operations within a fast‑paced, performance‑driven environment, where accuracy, judgement, and communication are essential, and where your work can have an immediate and visible impact on race execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Supporting the majority of race events from the factory mission control and trackside as required.
- Contributing to the direction and development of race strategy methodology.
- Designing, developing, and improving tools used to optimise race strategy.
- Preparing race models and analysing weekend data and competitor performance.
- Providing live, in‑session analysis to inform strategic decision‑making.
- Communicating strategy updates clearly and confidently directly to the pit wall.
- Supporting pre‑event preparation, live event execution, and post‑event analysis.
- Working collaboratively with other trackside and factory departments.
- Undertaking additional responsibilities aligned to the role as required.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Degree‑level qualification in Engineering, Computer Science, Maths, Physics or a related discipline.
- Strong experience in data analysis and applied statistics.
- Programming and technical experience, ideally including:
- Python, MATLAB, Excel VBA
- MongoDB, SQL
- Plotly/Dash
- C#, Visual Studio or .NET
- Highly self‑motivated with the flexibility to work irregular hours around race weekends.
- The ability to make fast, data‑driven decisions under extreme pressure.
- A logical, analytical approach with a passion for continuous improvement.
- A solid understanding of race strategy and race modelling concepts.
- Confidence using intercom and radio systems during live sessions.
- Excellent problem‑solving and mathematical ability.