For almost 50 years, Williams has been at the forefront of one of the fastest sports on the planet, being one of the top three most successful teams in history competing in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship. With an almost unrivalled heritage of engineering and racing F1 cars and unforgettable eras that demonstrate it is a force to be reckoned with, the British squad boasts 16 F1 World Championship titles to its name.
Since its foundation in 1977 by the eminent, late Sir Frank Williams and engineering pioneer Sir Patrick Head, the team has won nine Constructors’ Championships, in association with Cosworth, Honda and Renault. Its roll call of drivers is legendary, with its seven Drivers’ Championship trophies being lifted by true icons of the sport: Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve. The team has made history before and is out to make it again with a long-term mission to evolve and return to the front of the grid.
We're looking for a Principal Engineer to join our Design Quality team, working closely with the Head of Engineering Operations to raise design methodology, process and governance to industry leading standards across Vehicle Engineering.
You'll manage a team of engineers, while collaborating with the other Principal Engineers across Design, taking ownership of a defined slice of the Design Quality remit and driving it from concept through to embedded practice. This means mapping and documenting optimum F1 processes, making them genuinely discoverable and usable across the business, and keeping them current as the needs of Vehicle Engineering, Operations, Finance and the Race Team evolve alongside FIA regulations.
It's a role that sits at the intersection of engineering rigour and organisational influence, working with stakeholders across the business to shape new requirements and introduce process that actually sticks, rather than process for its own sake.
You're an experienced engineer with a track record of owning and developing engineering processes - not just following them. You combine strong technical credibility in design quality with the people skills to manage a team, coach individuals along their own path, and hold your own with stakeholders across the organisation. You'll bring sound judgement, resilience under pressure, and a collaborative mindset that fits how we work and live our values at Williams F1 Team.
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Atlassian Williams F1 Team is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We are happy to discuss reasonable job adjustments.
Atlassian Williams Racing is one of the world’s leading Formula One teams. It exists purely to race in the top echelon of motor racing, where it’s been winning Grands Prix for more than three decades.
The Williams name has been synonymous with top-level motorsport since the 1960s. After running teams on the sport’s nursery slopes, team patron Frank Williams founded Frank Williams (Racing Cars) in 1966 and he entered F1 in 1969 with his friend Piers Courage behind the wheel.
Frank quickly earned a reputation as one of the industry’s more determined individuals and after selling his controlling interest in his original team, he established Williams Grand Prix Engineering with British engineer Patrick Head in 1977. They built their first car, the FW06, the following year and the team immediately went from strength-to-strength. Atlassian Williams Racing is currently the third most successful team on the grid.
