Tyre Engineer

**Job description**

**ACCELERATE YOUR CAREER**

WAE Technologies Limited exists to accelerate the advantage and impact of our clients. We do it through innovative engineering and technology that solves complex problems and brings a step-change in weight, speed, and efficiency. Join us to help fulfil our mission to accelerate an efficient, electric, and sustainable future.

An opportunity has arisen for a **Tyre Engineer** in a rapidly expanding and exciting work environment.

**Job role**:

- Evaluate and optimise tyre utilisation during track tests and race events to ensure maximum overall performance of cars during qualifying and racing
- Support trackside tyre performance engineering with test program planning and analysis.
- Formulation of the pre-event tyre report with recommendations for tyre preparation and usage.
- Responsible for the tyre moment/force/thermal model used on the driver in the loop simulator and offline simulation tools.
- Responsible for the post event tyre correlation exercise (race driver in the DIL) and reporting on such tests.

**You’ll have**:

- A good Vehicle Dynamics knowledge and background is essential.
- Trackside experience in a high-level motorsport series will be beneficial.
- Tyre modelling experience is desirable (Matlab / Simulink).
- Experience of Vehicle dynamics modelling (Matlab / Simulink / SimPack / Dymola, Adams etc).
- Experience in the development of tyre thermo-mechanical models, higher fidelity models (brush model etc) physical models or FE models would be a distinct advantage.
- Experience in tyre indoor and outdoor testing (planning, execution, data analysis) would be an advantage.

**We’ll provide**:

- Training to add to your existing skills and accelerate your career
- A supportive and empowering work environment

**Application deadline**:
**Location**:
We are based on the Williams technical campus in Grove, Oxfordshire, UK. 20 minutes’ drive South of Oxford, UK. and Kidlington, Oxford.

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