Job Description

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.

This position is offered directly by Williams Racing. Applications go directly to the employer – not through CompoConnect.