VCARB F1 Team - Industrial Placement Programme 2027/2028

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Aerodynamic Development
Analysis of Computational Fluid Dynamic and Wind Tunnel simulations.
Deliver concise and insightful reports to colleagues, driving development direction.
Produce precise surfaces in CAD.
Ensure thorough and experimentally sound test plans are delivered to those in the Wind Tunnel.
CFD Methodology
Improve the efficiency of the CFD throughput.
CFD code programming.
CFD software benchmarking.
Activities to improve CFD correlation with Wind Tunnel and track.
Support users with the CFD tools for Aerodynamic Development.
Data Science
Apply Machine Learning, Statistics, and Computer Science to generate actionable insights that support engineering and performance decisions.
Learn from and collaborate with Data Scientists to master best practices, and essential tools.
Work alongside talented F1 professionals at the intersection of aerodynamic development, vehicle performance, and strategy to help extract every thousandth of a second from the race car.
Drive innovation and efficiency by developing cutting-edge Data Science solutions, while sharing your expertise to enhance the overall organizational capabilities.
From day one, you'll be trusted with meaningful work and supported by the team to make a real impact on live projects.
Race Strategy
Develop and enhance strategy simulation tools and software, models, and analysis techniques.
Support pre-event, in-event, and post-race analysis reporting, ensuring timely and comprehensive reports.
Generate data and statistical analysis to create relevant trackers for strategy and team performance understanding.
Support live race strategy and competitor analysis during race events from our Operation Room to optimize race performance.
Simulation & Modelling
Improve the simulation toolset and related methodologies for car performance prediction, optimization, and analysis.
Define robust technical workflows for race events/simulator sessions performance analysis and decision-making process on the allocated topics.
Support the daily pre/in/post-event car performance analysis and simulation work.
Support live events in Operation Room on selected race weekend/simulator sessions on the allocated topics.
Race Engineering Support
Contribute to race engineering pre-event documentation including lap-time simulation work.
Analyze circuit characteristics to support setup decisions.
Support simulation data interpretation and post-session analysis to inform engineering decisions.
Assist in preparing driving analysis reports, comparing performance metrics across sessions and drivers.
Collaborate with race engineers to compile and update technical documentation.
Wind Tunnel Operations
Development of processes and technologies to aid in the aerodynamic testing of the wind tunnel model.
Use, maintain and develop model instrumentation and electromechanical systems.
Analysis of wind tunnel system data to push continuous improvement and fault resolution.
Aid in the process development of the PIV (Particle Image Velocimetry) system and data.
Involvement in hands-on R&D activities to further the teams understanding of aerodynamic testing.
Maintenance, analysis and development of Wind Tunnel Tyres.
Software Engineering
Explore internship opportunities across Software Engineering, DevOps and Quality Assurance, developing expertise in the discipline that best matches your skills and interests while contributing to world-class engineering tools.
Design and develop cutting-edge applications that enable engineers to analyse, design and optimise F1 car performance, using modern technologies and innovative data visualisation techniques.
Write high-quality, well-documented code in C#, TypeScript, React and Python, helping to build and maintain the next generation of analysis and simulation tools that give the team a competitive edge.
Collaborate with colleagues across Technology to enhance data-processing pipelines and optimise application performance and reliability, supporting critical race car development timelines.
Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation and DevOps practices, enabling critical updates to be deployed rapidly and confidently while maintaining the reliability demanded by race operations.
Champion quality throughout the development lifecycle by identifying opportunities to improve testability, automation, tooling and engineering practices.
From day one, you'll be trusted with meaningful work and supported by the team to make a real impact on live projects.
Aerodynamic Surfacing
Create robust parametric CAD surface models based on requests from Aerodynamic Designers.
Develop improved methods to surface complex areas.
Check and confirm surfaces comply with the sport’s technical regulations.
Assist with preparation of transferring surfaces from design to the race car.
Preparing surfaces for CFD submission.
Model Design
Create robust parametric CAD models, using both surface and solid body reference geometry, ready for manufa

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