2025 Industrial Placements (Electronics, Aerodynamics, Performance, IT & Software)

Kick-start you career with an Industrial Placement at Aston Martin Aramco Formula One® Team (AMF1 Team) or Aston Martin Performance Technologies (AMPT). Gain hands-on experience with our dynamic and competitive team in Aerodynamics, Engineering & Design, Performance, IT, or more. Our placements offer the ideal platform to apply your academic knowledge to real-world solutions, working alongside industry leaders. Join us on this exciting journey and accelerate your motorsport career.

Discover the exciting Industrial Placement opportunities within our team and learn how you can apply.

Electronics

The Electronics Department designs instrumentation, control systems, harnesses and electrical installations for the car and wind tunnel. The team collaborate with the race team, supporting electronic systems, control systems, and car assembly, covering electrical engineering, mechanical design, control systems, software, and F1 electronics manufacturing. With major changes coming in 2026, including a new ECU, electronic architecture, power unit, and gearbox, the team leads these projects. You’ll design electronics for the wind tunnel, R&D, and the driver-in-the-loop simulator, working on instrumentation and integrating electronic systems on test rigs.

We’re seeking a student studying electronic engineering or a related field, passionate about F1, problem-solving and innovation.

Performance Analysis

As a Performance Analysis Industrial Placement, you’ll support both current and future car development within the Performance Engineering Group. You’ll conduct Vehicle Simulations to enhance car performance and develop data analysis tools to visualise key performance parameters. This role suits those with a keen interest in Vehicle Dynamics, Physics, Data Science, and Coding, with a chance to provide insights that drive real-world performance improvements.

Performance Optimisation

In the Performance Optimisation Industrial Placement, you’ll help optimise car setup and support race events from Mission Control. You’ll automate existing simulation tools and create custom visualisations in Python to enhance data-driven decision-making. This role offers exposure to vehicle performance, making it ideal for those interested in aerodynamics, tyres, or suspension optimisation.

Engineering Software

You’ll help develop and support of bespoke software solutions, including databases, microservices, web, and desktop applications. Our tools are used by engineers and technicians across departments at AMF1, such as aerodynamics, race car design, part production, and the race team. You’ll enhance our applications by adding new features, fixing bugs, and improving performance, working across the entire product lifecycle, from user requirements to design, coding, testing, and deployment. Within weeks, you’ll make meaningful contributions to our software suite, delivering solutions that help AMF1 build a world championship-winning car.

Performance Software

Working within Performance Engineering, you will play an active role in supporting our engineers during live events, as well as with post-session analysis, with the aim of swiftly providing data to our engineers to inform their decision making. Our data streams include real-time car sensor information alongside audio and video feeds. This is a fast-paced role, and the aim will be for you to have code running during a live event within a few weeks of commencing the role.

Aero Thermal

You’ll address thermal and aerothermal challenges of our F1 car in the Thermal Engineering group. You’ll play a key role in developing future brake, power unit and cooling systems. You’ll learn to analyse data from multiple sources, convert your development ideas into geometries in CAD and evaluate performances in CFD. You’ll prepare for physical dyno and track tests, delivering lap time improvements. You’ll also build and maintain system simulation tools to guide cooling requirements for test and race events. This placement offers the chance to develop multidisciplinary skills and make a real impact on car performance.

Aerodynamics

As a placement student in the aerodynamic development team, you will be immersed in the same tasks and given the same challenges as our aerodynamicists. You’ll conceive, discuss, design, text and iterate aerodynamic concepts in your respective groups’ area of responsibility. The expectations are the same as those placed on our graduate aerodynamicists and you will be working with CAD, creating reports, analysing CFD and WT results and running WT shifts during your year with us.

Experimental Aerodynamics

As a placement student in the experimental aerodynamics team, you will have a unique opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to our state-of-the-art, brand-new wind tunnel and associated processes, methodology and hardware. The expectations are the same as those placed on our graduate engineers, and you will be working with CAD, creating reports, analysing WT results and running WT shifts during your year with us.

Race Strategy

As a Race Strategy Industrial Placement, you’ll integrate into the Race Strategy team, supporting all championship events and contributing to strategic decision-making throughout race weekends. The responsibilities of the Strategy department include: competitor monitoring and analysis, pit stop performance tracking, team regulatory compliance, and formulating the overall race weekend strategy—covering race plans, tyre combinations, and optimal pit stops. Your day-to-day tasks will involve conducting competitor analysis, developing strategy analysis tools, and contributing to event optimisation and reporting.

IT – Operations (Project Coordinator)

We offer an exciting opportunity for a motivated and detail-oriented individual to join our IT Operations Team as a Project Coordinator. In this role, you’ll be a key part of our project management efforts, collaborating with the Operations Team to plan, coordinate, and oversee various IT projects across the organisation. You’ll play a critical role in ensuring the successful execution of IT projects ranging from software development and networking to Windows, Linux, mobile, Azure, and M365 implementations. This position offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in project management within a dynamic and fast-paced IT environment.

IT – Cyber Security

We have an exciting opportunity for Undergraduate student in Computer Science or Cybersecurity to join our IT Architecture Team as an industrial placement. In this role, you’ll assist in developing and implementing cybersecurity policies across various technology areas, including software development, networking, Windows, Linux, mobile, Azure, and M365. You’ll also assist in vulnerability assessments and penetration testing activities. This placement offers a valuable opportunity to enhance your skills in cybersecurity while contributing to the protection of our IT infrastructure.

WE are seeking candidates who embody our Racing GREEN values: Growth, Ready, Empower, Excellence, and Nurture.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:

Once you’ve decided on the roles you’d like to apply for, please follow the steps below to submit your application:

• Visit the application link (provided below) and complete the registration process. In the “Job Profiles” section, select the placement roles you wish to apply for. Please note that some roles share the same test. If this applies, the roles included in the test will be listed in brackets next to the test name or indicated on the test name itself.
• Log in to the application portal.
• Complete your assessments: Once logged in, you can take the assessments for the roles you’ve chosen when you are ready. The deadline for completing each test will be displayed on the site.

APPLICATION LINK – Aston Martin – Home (imocha.io)

The application window closes on 9th October 2024. After this date, you will no longer to able to take a test.

If successful, you will be invited to an assessment day or an interview which will take place between October 2024 and December 2024. Further details will be provided if you are selected.

Please note: Due to the high volume of applications, we are unable to provide updates during the recruitment process. If you have not heard from us by December 2024, please assume your application has not been successful.

Aston Martin Aramco Formula One® Team is committed to making sure our selection methods are fair for all. If you would like to request that reasonable adjustments are made, please complete our Request for Reasonable Adjustments form here. The deadline for requesting reasonable adjustments for tests is 1st October 2024.

WHAT WE ARE OFFERING YOU:

You’ll gain real motorsport experience at our state-of-the-art Technology Campus in Silverstone, the heart of Formula One. As part of a high-performing and collaborative team, you will enjoy a competitive package, including a contributory private healthcare scheme, a pension plan, life assurance, and various discounts. We also offer a new on-site gym with fitness classes and a restaurant with indoor and outdoor dining.

Many of our past Industrial Placement students have secured full-time roles with us. Our Programme nurtures future talent, providing the skills and experience needed for a successful career in our team.

Aston Martin Formula One Team is committed to attracting, recruiting, and retaining the most talented individuals, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion, belief, sex or sexual orientation. We strive to be a Team that reflects all the communities with which we engage around the world through diversity in the workplace and promoting an inclusive culture in which all team members are respected, empowered and valued.