Main Duties:
Simulation Strategy & Opportunity Identification
- Help shape an ambitious, performance-led simulation roadmap and critical path aligned to the team’s competitive strategy.
- Identify inefficiencies, modelling gaps, bottlenecks or untapped areas where simulation tools, data, and modelling can meaningfully improve car development or trackside operations.
- Prioritise ruthlessly and focus only on what moves the performance dial
Project Delivery & Execution
- Own simulation project delivery end-to-end, from initial discovery of performance concepts to deployment and validation with engineers and race teams.
- Build, maintain, and drive robust project plans with clear timelines, scope, resource needs, and performance outcomes.
- Lead cross-functional groups (Aero, Vehicle Dynamics, Software, Strategy, Race Engineering) with clarity and confidence.
- Stay ahead of risk, interdependencies, and scope creep with relentless focus on performance outcomes.
- Ensure everything runs at F1 pace, with no compromise on delivery and timelines
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
- Act as the go-to authority on simulation programme status, capability readiness, and performance impact.
- Translate complex technical modelling concepts into clear, concise narratives that gain buy-in from engineering leads and race-side decision-makers.
- Run reviews, technical workshops and capability demos that drive engagement, adoption and alignment across departments.
Change Management & Adoption
- Help embed simulation thinking into day-to-day engineering and race-weekend decisions.
- Partner with People & Culture, Engineering Leads and performance groups to raise capability and reduce resistance to new methods or tools.
- Build practical training, onboarding and communication plans that meet the organisation where it is, ensuring new simulation capabilities are actually used, not just delivered.
- Track adoption and behaviour change, intervening early when processes drift or tools are under-utilised.
Governance, Quality & Compliance
- Ensure all simulation work adheres to accuracy, calibration, and validation standards expected in a championship-level racing environment.
- Partner with data governance, IT security and engineering quality teams to ensure models and tools are safe, validated, and compliant with F1 regulatory frameworks.
- Promote responsible and traceable use of modelling, data and performance predictions.
Performance Measurement & Continuous Improvement
- Define the metrics that matter, from simulation accuracy to development-cycle gains to on-track performance.
- Measure and report against these KPIs with clarity and frequency.
- Continuously identify ways to scale, optimise, accelerate or increase the competitive impact of simulation capability.
Qualifications and Experience Level:
- Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional engineering, simulation or technology programmes in fast-paced environments (motorsport, automotive, aerospace or equivalent).
- Strong understanding of simulation tools, modelling approaches, performance engineering, data-driven decision-making or vehicle systems.
- Ability to work fluently with technical specialists
- Outstanding stakeholder management, with clarity, composure and conviction at all levels.
- Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills, especially under pressure.
- Experience delivering change and embedding new technical capabilities.
- Ability to manage multiple projects without losing pace, detail, or focus.
Values & Behaviours
We look for people who thrive in high-performance environments with ambiguity, pressure, and rapid response cycles. You will embody our values:
- Innovation: Curiosity, creative problem solving, constant pursuit of on time delivery
- Teamwork: Empathy, collaboration, and a commitment to collective success.
- Resilience: Impactful communication, confidence-building, and persistence through challenge.
- Excellence: Continual learning, continuous improvement, refusal to settle.
- Accountability: Ownership, urgency, and clear focus on performance outcomes.
Company Description
We’re looking for a frontline performance driver, someone who thrives in a high-pressure, high-precision Formula 1 environment. You will cut through ambiguity, remove blockers, and translate complex simulation initiatives into on- track competitive gains. Sitting at the intersection of Performance, Vehicle Dynamics, Aerodynamics, Software and Race Operations, you will lead the delivery of simulation activities that improve car performance, operational deci- sion-making, and race-weekend execution.
Additional Information
Atlassian Williams F1 Team is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We are happy to discuss reasonable job adjustments.
