Motorsports - Competition Analysis Lead

Job Description

Hybrid: Position does not require an employee to be on-site full-time, but the general expectation is that the employee be onsite a minimum of three (3) days each week.

The Role

The GM Motorsports Program is seeking a Competition Lead dedicated to maximizing competition performance through successful use of data obtained during live events.  This individual will provide direction to those groups across all GM Motorsports Series – NASCAR, IndyCar, IMSA/WEC, Formula 1 – engaged in supporting live sessions. Given the wide variety of decisions required throughout events, this role will touch on many different aspects of event execution, data analysis, and software tools development.

A primary responsibility of the Competition Lead is to conceptualize optimized event execution workflows and guide GM Motorsports development groups to build or enhance toolsets to support these processes. Close collaboration with IT/software groups will be required to ensure features are efficiently developed to realize full functionality of vision.

This role will oversee the race support operations carried out from the Charlotte Tech Center Command Center. Developing collaborative working relationships with internal and external parties will be essential in effectively partnering with GM Motorsports customer race teams to understand needs, implement process initiatives, and coordinate GM Motorsports group internal efforts to support live race events.
 

What You’ll Do

Collaborate across Motorsports and Software groups to develop and refine in-race tools, facilitating efficient, split-second extraction of critical information

• Conceptualize methods to comprehensively characterize competitor performance and extract precise vehicle properties sufficient to understand each entrant’s configuration philosophy.

• Guide internal teams to develop and implement race strategy innovations.

• Develop new methods of extracting insight from telemetry, timing, audio and image intelligence.

• Transfer learning and approaches between the series in which GM Motorsports teams compete.

Lead GM Motorsports in-race support group from the GM Motorsports Command Center

• Establish objectives for GM in-race support and effectively manage team supporting GM competitors to provide innovative insights which translate into race wins.

• Train GM personnel to support race events, use tools, and mentor developing strategy engineers.

• Create approaches to rapidly identify emerging trends in track conditions, driving style, line and strategy. Convey these in actionable way to competitors.

• Solicit feedback from supported Race Teams, integrate requests, and formulate improved operational strategies.

• Coordinate race strategy approaches between GM supported race teams to maximize performance of the GM group

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Additional Job Description

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Physics, or related subject

• 7+ years of experience in a top-level motorsports series including NASCAR, IMSA, F1, IndyCar, WEC, or similar

• Intimate of motorsports race strategy tools and experience using models and performing analysis to drive strategy decisions during live race events

• Working knowledge of simulation workflows professional motorsports organization.  Experience using simulation tools to optimize vehicle performance

• Proficient programing in Python, MATLAB, or similar language

• Extensive experience analyzing on-track performance through both application vehicle dynamics principles and statistical methods

• Strong organization skills, forward thinking mentality, and a superb attention to detail

• Well-developed interpersonal abilities with experience developing relationships and navigating politics across teams and sanctioning bodies.  Patient and considerate with a strong desire to mentor developing engineers

• Ability to multi-task in a dynamic, constantly evolving environment, with exceptional work ethic and integrity

• Given the need to support live race events during weekends, this role will require the ability to work a flexible schedule

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