General Motors
Motorsports Vehicle Testing & Performance Engineer
Concord, North Carolina, United States of America · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- At least five years of professional motorsports experience within a professional race team, working in a vehicle-development environment.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or a related technical discipline.
About the job
Plans, executes, and analyzes motorsports vehicle tests across trackside, simulation, test-rig, bench, and virtual environments, translating results into performance recommendations for race teams.
What you'll do
- Develop test objectives, plans, and readiness with the test team and coordinate test execution.
- Analyze vehicle, simulation, and test data; provide performance recommendations and support simulation correlation.
- Produce technical reports and presentations, and improve test-analysis tools and workflows.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or a related technical discipline.
- At least five years of professional motorsports experience within a professional race team, working in a vehicle-development environment.
- Experience planning, executing, and analyzing vehicle tests or engineering development activities, and using motorsports data-analysis tools such as Pi Toolbox, MoTeC i2, McLaren ATLAS, or equivalent platforms.
- Knowledge of high-performance vehicle, tire, aerodynamic, or vehicle-dynamics modeling techniques.
Nice to have
- Race engineering experience in NASCAR or a comparable professional racing series.
- Experience with simulation or test environments and tools such as driver-in-loop simulators, rigs, Dymola/Modelica, MATLAB, or Python.
Tools
Pi Toolbox, MoTeC i2, McLaren ATLAS, SPMM, Dymola/Modelica, MATLAB, Python
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