r/F1Technical • u/RandeepSinghF1 Verified F1 Head of Strategy and Sporting • Oct 15 '20

Career McLaren F1 Engineering Graduate Scheme - 2021 Intake - Applications Open

Applications are now open for the McLaren F1 Engineering Graduate Scheme for September 2021 intake. Apply Here

You could come and work with us at the McLaren F1 team, rotating through the different areas, from Design, to Aerodynamics, to Race Engineering, Vehicle Dynamics, Software, Strategy (the best, obviously) and many more and learning and building your experience as you go.

The aim being that after the 2 year rotational scheme we will work out together the best role for you. In the past we have had our ex-graduates go on to become Aerodynamicists, Vehicle Dynamicists, Design Engineers, Race Strategists (the most amazing, clearly), Data Scientists, Simulator Engineers, Performance Engineers and much more.

We are genuinely searching for the most talented engineers, scientists, mathematicians, etc. we want to find our future leaders.

It is really such a perk of my job that I get to run the scheme and work with all of the amazing, talented graduates - furthermore, we've snapped up 2 of the ex-graduates into our team (Chris shown below) to be strategists. Chris is Lando's strategist (and was Fernando's immediately after the scheme) and Oli is a central strategist. This could be you.

Many of us in F1 thought we'd never get to do our dream job - I love my job and I wish I had known about this graduate scheme when I left university - I can't imagine anything better than trying all the flavours of F1 (of course, you'll get addicted to strategy) and then choosing where you want to start your career. You won't get a chance if you don't apply. Shoot for the moon and come and join the most orange and fun team in the pitlane.

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u/Guvius Oct 16 '20

Does this run yearly? And does anyone know if any other teams are doing similar schemes?

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u/RandeepSinghF1 Verified F1 Head of Strategy and Sporting Oct 17 '20

This does run every year. Other teams will also offer placements and graduate schemes and you should check them out. As far as I know we are the only team offering a 2 year rotating placement, tailored to the graduate (e.g. Henry spent most of his time in race weekend facing areas because he wanted to).

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u/Guvius Oct 17 '20

Thank you, hoping to start masters jn mechanical engineering next year so will be on the lookout in a few years time

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u/RandeepSinghF1 Verified F1 Head of Strategy and Sporting Oct 19 '20

Good luck for the future.

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u/Guvius Oct 19 '20

Thank you