For almost 50 years, Williams F1 Racing Team 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.
At Williams F1 Team, the Driver-in-the-Loop simulator is one of our most powerful tools for performance development. It's where race preparation happens, where vehicle concepts are tested, and where drivers and engineers push the boundaries of what's possible before a single wheel turns on track. Underpinning all of it is a highly complex SECU ecosystem - and as our Simulator Systems Engineer / DIL Test Engineer, you'll be contributing to it.
About the role:
This is a high-ownership role sitting at the intersection of simulator operations and systems engineering You'll be one of the go-to people for all SECU/ECU configurations deployed across our DIL facilities, with primary focus on the F1 simulator running the TAG700. In practice, that means three core responsibilities:
Running the simulator: planning, configuring and executing DIL sessions with precision, working directly alongside drivers, Race Engineering, Performance Optimisation and Vehicle Dynamics to deliver sessions that hit their objectives. You'll manage the simulator calendar, coordinate with internal teams, handle data offload and post-processing, and keep everything running to the standard the sport demands.
Configuration: You'll have ownership of the SECU projects deployed in our simulators - managing software releases, sensor calibrations, logging configurations and version control. Working closely with trackside Systems Engineers, Controls and Performance teams, you'll ensure our simulator accurately mirrors real-world systems at every stage of the season.
Making things better: You'll systematically update historical baselines to newer software versions, develop tools that reduce setup complexity for DIL operators, and build the documentation and processes that make the whole environment more reliable and efficient. You'll bridge the gap between trackside and simulator, making sure the knowledge flows both ways.
What you'll do:
Amongst other responsibilities, your weeks could be a mixture of the following:
About you:
We're looking for someone who combines technical expertise in SECU/ECU systems and the drive to apply it in a fast-moving simulator environment - someone who is methodical and precise, but also practical and understands that the best system is one that works reliably when it matters most. You'll need to be organised, proactive, and the kind of person who takes real ownership of the environment they're responsible for.
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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.
