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About the Role
Formula 1 is seeking a Systems Engineering Lead to establish and drive systems engineering practices across its operational technology landscape, ensuring innovation and excellence in the world of motorsport.
Responsibilities
- Establish, maintain, and improve systems engineering processes, standards, and ways of working.
- Act as the subject matter expert for systems engineering, providing leadership and technical assurance.
- Develop systems engineering capability through mentoring, coaching, and knowledge sharing.
- Promote the adoption of structured systems engineering practices throughout the project lifecycle.
- Own standards and governance for requirements and specifications.
- Ensure high-quality requirements and specifications fit for use across teams and partners.
- Establish and maintain requirements traceability throughout the engineering lifecycle.
- Act as the final technical authority for resolving business and operational needs into engineering requirements.
- Define the approach for managing telemetry, interface, and data dictionaries.
- Ensure telemetry and data definitions align with requirements and interface baselines.
- Promote common data standards with engineering teams and suppliers.
- Provide technical leadership and oversight for system architecture, interface management, and subsystem integration.
- Own standards and governance for interface definitions and specifications.
- Define architectural principles and integration frameworks.
- Collaborate with various teams to promote cohesive end-to-end system design.
- Support engineering decision-making through system analysis, trade studies, and technical assessments.
- Provide oversight of integration, verification, validation, and acceptance activities.
- Own review and assurance mechanisms for the systems engineering framework.
- Define and maintain engineering review processes.
- Align with engineering standards, quality processes, and design review practices.
- Facilitate technical, architecture, and design reviews.
- Drive continual improvement in engineering documentation, configuration management, change control, and governance.
Requirements
- Strong communicator capable of translating complex technical concepts.
- Delivery focused and collaborative.
- Confident to constructively challenge and influence decisions.
- Degree or advanced degree (MSc, MEng or PhD) in Systems Engineering, Electronic/Software/Aerospace Engineering, or related technical discipline.
- Training or certification in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), SysML or recognised architecture frameworks.
- Strong understanding of systems engineering principles, lifecycle management, and systems thinking.
- Experience authoring and reviewing technical requirements, specifications, interface documentation, and engineering artefacts.
- Experience managing requirements traceability, configuration management, and change control processes.
- Strong technical leadership and communication skills.
- Experience facilitating technical reviews and providing engineering assurance.
- Experience developing telemetry, command structures, data dictionaries or Interface Control Documents (ICDs).
- Experience working within live operational, safety-critical or mission-critical environments.
- Experience working within regulated or quality-driven engineering environments.
- Experience supporting complex distributed systems operating across multiple locations and time-critical environments.
- Experience establishing SE capability in a newly formed or maturing team/function.
- Bachelor's degree plus 15+ years' systems engineering experience.
- Master's degree plus 12+ years' systems engineering experience.
- PhD plus 10+ years' systems engineering experience.
- Including at least 5 years defining, implementing or maturing systems engineering governance frameworks at an organisational level.
- Knowledge of verification, validation, and system acceptance methodologies.
- Knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), SysML and systems modelling tools such as Cameo Systems Modeler or Enterprise Architect.
- Knowledge of Motorsport, broadcast, telecommunications, aerospace or other high-performance technology domains.
Skills
- Systems Engineering
- Technical Leadership
- Requirements Management
- Configuration Management
- Change Control
- Interface Management
- System Architecture
- Verification and Validation
- Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
- SysML
- Systems Modelling Tools (e.g., Cameo Systems Modeler, Enterprise Architect)
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Technical Assurance
- Process Improvement
Location
- Biggin Hill
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years
- 12+ years
- 15+ years
- 5+ years defining, implementing or maturing systems engineering governance frameworks
Education Level
- Degree
- Advanced Degree (MSc, MEng or PhD)
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
- PhD
Benefits
- Private Healthcare scheme
- Dental Care
- 4 x Grand Prix Paddock passes per season
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave and other family planning policies
- Free staff shuttle service
- Free healthy snacks
- Subsidised canteen
- 25 days annual leave
- 8 Bank Holiday days
- Christmas period closure
- Opportunities to develop and request training
- Discount on F1 merchandise
- Discount at F1’s experiences
- Perkbox benefit portal
About the Company
- Formula 1 is passionate about delivering the world’s greatest sports and entertainment spectacle, leaving a positive legacy wherever they race.
- Innovation has always been at the heart of what they do, pioneering technologies that have impacted society beyond the track.
- The company is driven by passionate and dedicated people across various departments including engineering, broadcast, legal, logistics, security, event management, commercial, media rights, marketing, and communications.
- Joining F1 means becoming part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and personal growth.
- They offer a dynamic work environment where ideas are heard and employee contributions make an impact.
- They seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people to accelerate the future of the sport.
Equal Opportunity
- We only communicate with candidates through official @f1.com email addresses. We will never contact you via personal email accounts, messaging apps, or request payment as part of our recruitment process. If you receive suspicious communication claiming to be from our talent team, please report it to recruitment@f1.com.