Systems Engineering Lead

Are you ready to make your mark in the world of Formula 1? At Formula 1, we are passionate about delivering the world’s greatest sports and entertainment spectacle leaving a positive legacy wherever we race. Innovation has always been at the heart of what we do ever since our first Grand Prix in 1950. Now, more than 75 years on, the sport remains a pioneer, developing technologies that have made a significant impact on society beyond the track.

Everything you see on screen or at an event comes via our passionate and dedicated people. Whether its engineering, broadcast, legal, logistics, security, event management, commercial, media rights, marketing, or communications there is always a talented team working to maximise the potential of the sport.

We are looking for a Systems Engineering Lead to establish and drive systems engineering practices across Formula 1’s operational technology landscape.

• Systems Engineering Leadership
• Establish, maintain and continuously improve systems engineering processes, standards and ways of working across Formula 1 engineering teams.
• Act as the organisation's subject matter expert for systems engineering, providing leadership and technical assurance across projects and programmes.
• Develop systems engineering capability across the organisation through mentoring, coaching and knowledge sharing.
• Promote the adoption of structured systems engineering practices throughout the project lifecycle.
• System Definition and Requirements
• Own the standards and governance for how requirements and specifications are produced.
• Ensure requirements and specifications are consistently high quality and fit for use across engineering teams and delivery partners.
• Establish and maintain requirements traceability throughout the engineering lifecycle, from concept and design through implementation, validation and operational acceptance.
• Act as the final technical authority when business and operational needs must be resolved into engineering requirements, arbitrating where translation is ambiguous or contested.
• Telemetry and Data Standards
• Define the approach for managing telemetry, interface and data dictionaries across Formula 1 engineering systems.
• Ensure telemetry and data definitions align with the requirements and interface baselines maintained elsewhere in the engineering lifecycle.
• Work with engineering teams and suppliers to promote common data standards that support integration, diagnostics, performance monitoring and future system development.
• Systems Engineering and Architecture
• Provide technical leadership and oversight across system architecture, interface management and subsystem integration activities.
• Own the standards and governance for how interface definitions and specifications are produced, maintained and controlled.
• Define architectural principles and integration frameworks to support the delivery of complex engineering systems.
• Collaborate with software, electronics, infrastructure, networking, broadcast and operational teams to promote cohesive end‑to‑end system design.
• Support engineering decision‑making through system analysis, trade studies and technical assessment.
• Provide oversight of integration, verification, validation and acceptance activities to ensure systems meet operational and performance objective.
• Technical Governance and Review
• Own the review and assurance mechanisms (design reviews, technical challenge and sign-off) that provide oversight against the systems engineering framework.
• Define and maintain engineering review processes that verify consistency, traceability and technical assurance are upheld across projects.
• Work closely with the QMO team to ensure alignment with engineering standards, quality processes…