Context
Michelin has a strong ambition inmotorsport and environmental sustainability. The company is committed to use technologies developed in motorsport to improve the performance and efficiency of everyday tires.
Michelin’s goal is toapply innovations from motorsport to offer more environmental friendly tires, providing better grip, lower rolling resistance, and longer milage.
This means thattechnological advances made in tires used in extreme competition conditions are transferred to consumer tires. Thus, drivers benefit fromhigher-performingtires, as well as significant gains infuel economy and CO2 emission reductions with an increasing proportion of sustainable materials!
Michelin is looking for aMotorsport Performance Engineerto support the development ofinternal simulation and collaboration with our partners. The objective of this position? Better understand performances to offer new development paths for our products or for our partner’s vehicles! You will work on exciting projects aimed at promoting safer and more sustainable mobility…
Additional information about the position:
This position is based at ourmotorsport building, in Cataroux plant in Clermont Ferrand.
Key achievements expected:
- Define and drive test plans on DIL simulator
- Participate to tire modeling development
- Provide reliable measurement results on Michelin internal bench.
- Develop innovative measurement protocols.
- Track data analysis
- Report to internal and external customer in your area of expertise.
- Solve ambitious technical problems and share your knowledge.
Responsibilities:
- Support our partners and tire designers during test sessions by conducting on-site analysis.
- Build and optimize tire Forces & Moments tire models.
- Participate in simulator test sessions internally and with our external partners.
- Develop and implement criteria and tools to understand the physics of tire/vehicle interaction.
- Create and maintain a strong technical partnership with our clients.
- Collaborate with Michelin’s internal R&D teams.
Your profile interests us if:
- You hold an engineering master in mechanics and have 3 to 5 years of experience in vehicle dynamics.
- Experience in motorsport is a plus.
- You are proficient in English (minimum B2) and French is a plus
- You have strong skills in vehicle dynamics, analysis, and an interest in understanding the physical domain.
- Programming (Matlab/Python) is required.
- You are customer-oriented and able to work in a responsive and cross-functional environment.
- Additionally, you can work in a team, in a multidisciplinary environment. You have the ability to adapt to different environments and can work with agility and resilience in dynamic environments to closely meet customer needs.
What do you have to gain?
Michelin offers adynamic and international work environmentwith the possibility oftraveling up to 80 days per year.
We invite you to join our passionate team and contribute to our mission ofproviding advanced mobility solutions while pushing the limits of performances.
Upon taking up your position, you willbenefit from a personalized and specific training plan tailored to your skills, allowing you to integrate into your new work environment and new job.
Your career progression will be supported by your experienced colleagues (senior developers, development experts, product performance experts, etc.) in a climate where sharing knowledge and know-how is important, as well as through continuous training that will be defined individually. You will be able to understand different aspects of product development, its industrialization, and the associated processes!
Finally, by joining our company, career prospects are varied, and you will be an actor in your development.
Don’t hesitate any longer!
If you want to participate in an ambitious vision of mobility, come and join us!
The position is available immediately and this offer will close as soon as a suitable candidate is found!
