Test and Reliability Engineer

At McLaren Racing, we’re not just here to try to take the chequered flag. We’re here to excite our fans, inspire our people and deliver for our partners. And we’re also committed to evolving our sport, our industry, and our technology, too 

We have an incredible history in endurance racing, securing a legendary 1995 win at Le Mans at the first attempt, and are the only team to have won the prestigious Triple Crown: winning the Monaco GP, the Indy500 and the 24hr Le Mans. 

From 2027, we’ll once again be the only team in the history of motorsports to be competing in the top three racing series, creating clear competitive and commercial advantage.  

And we’re excited and ready to now start building our McLaren Endurance Racing team. 
 
Role Dimensions 

This role is part of the Reliability function within Engineering, working closely with the operations and trackside functions to proactively improve reliability to a championship winning level. The focus of the role is on leading and facilitating projects at concept and deployment stages to fully embrace proactive prevention of issues. 
 
Principal Accountabilities 

• Overall management of faults related to operation, reliability and performance of the McLaren WEC project. 

• Coordination of fault management across project technical partners (race team, chassis supplier, ICE supplier etc.) and series standard suppliers (FZ, Bosch, Xtrac etc.) 

• Oversee information gathering, analysis, resolution planning and resolution execution for all faults. 

• Definition and development of new reliability focused toolsets and processes. Including, liaison with McLaren quality group to ensure best practices are deployed for the McLaren WEC project. 

• Analysis of data from track running to provide feedback on any reliability risks. Race weekend support may be required 

• Support definition and delivery of training with a focus on entrenching best practice & reliability culture and fault resolution within engineering. 

• Technical liaison with project technical partners and series suppliers; to ensure up-to-date information is distributed among all project technical partners and all standard processes and procedures are respected. 

• Map existing engineering processes and identify improvement opportunities. 

Knowledge, Skills and Experience 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in an Engineering discipline essential. 

• Experience working in a fast-paced design and manufacturing organisation.

• Familiarity with FMEA and other reliability toolsets.

• Self-motivated with experience of leading projects.

• Good appreciation of design concepts, detail design and how to design for reliability.

• Ability to implement data analysis techniques with a programming language such as C#, Python, R, or MATLAB. 

• Experience with motorsport data acquisition systems (ATLAS, WinTAX etc) would be advantageous. 
  

 
Personal Attributes 

• Proactive approach to problem solving.

• Clear and confident communicator.

• Good attention to detail.

• Able to prioritise multiple tasks.

• Open and collaborative worker.

What can McLaren offer?

We constantly strive to be better tomorrow than we are today. Our ambition is to be the most pioneering and exhilarating racing team in the world, and our collective task is to set the standards for high performance in sport. We show up every day with energy and enthusiasm, ready to play our part.

We encourage and support diversity, equity and inclusion. We will actively promote a culture that values difference and eliminates discrimination in our workplace.

McLaren Racing is based at the iconic McLaren Technology Centre (MTC) near Woking. Here at McLaren, we offer hybrid working with 3 days a week based in the MTC.

Our state of the art, sustainable campus offers many facilities including a gym, restaurant and indoor and outdoor break-out areas, as well as direct access to park and common land. The MTC is connected to Woking mainline station via regular shuttle buses, from which London Waterloo is a 30 minute train ride.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including private healthcare, car schemes, life insurance and generous pension contributions.