Job Description
The performance engineer directly contributes to the performance of the race car by working with the race engineers as well as independently to identify, test, organize, analyze, validate and communicate areas of improvement and ways in which the improvements can be realized. Using data, research, internal and external resources as well as other staff, the performance engineer will develop items and help to understand and optimize configurations that will aid in the performance of the race car.
Working in the NASCAR vehicle dynamics group, the candidate will develop simulation software used by the race teams and the Engineering Department as well as work on vehicle performance.
Responsibilities:
Simulation model development.
Model correlation with test data.
Identifying and exploiting areas of vehicle performance / development.
Assist the vehicle dynamics group with the development of an OEM DIL Simulator.