R&D Tire Mechanics Engineer
Overview
In this role you design and evaluate advanced tire concepts, combining physical understanding with simulation and testing to inform pre-development decisions. You will work within the Engineering Applied Contact Technologies team to advance wear, grip, and rolling resistance strategies. The work emphasizes bridging design criteria, experimental validation, and technology roadmaps. You will contribute to innovative wear-energy solutions that impact future tire design and processes.
Responsabilità
- Support Gen2/GenX Pre-Development using advanced dry, wet and wear simulations to guide design decisions and develop wear and friction technologies
- Evolve design criteria for wear/wet/dry (REP), wear/dry/PBN/RRc (OE) and wear/RRc (TBR) addressing braking and handling trade-offs
- Strengthen the synergy between tread compounds and tire design—pattern, cavity and construction—to improve overall performance
- Develop low-rolling-resistance (RRc) design guidelines that preserve wet/dry performance and improve wear without reducing skid depth, supporting Wear Grading readiness
- Drive ideation and PoC for GenX wear-energy technologies across pattern elements,
cavity and construction, closing gaps in the Wear Technology Roadmap (Mission #3)
- Validate simulation predictions through testing, document findings and transfer know-how to Pre-Development and Development teams
- Introduce and support advanced testing, simulation and prediction methods in tire mechanics
Requisiti fondamentali
- Master’s degree in mechanical engineering or related discipline (Aero, Automotive, Materials)
- PhD and/or master’s thesis in automotive or tire engineering preferred
- More than two years in tire/automotive industry or university research valued
- Strong fundamentals in contact, tire and structural mechanics
- Knowledge of wear, wet/dry grip and rolling-resistance trade-offs
- Goal orientation and ownership
- Clear communication and technical influencing
- Structured problem solving
- Tire design and development knowledge, especially in tread patterns and wear
- Experimental design, measurement, data acquisition and validation
- Statistics, Design of Experiments and robust-design methods
In this role you design and evaluate advanced tire concepts, combining physical understanding with simulation and testing to inform pre-development decisions. You will work within the Engineering Applied Contact Technologies team to advance wear, grip, and rolling resistance strategies. The work emphasizes bridging design criteria, experimental validation, and technology roadmaps. You will contribute to innovative wear-energy solutions that impact future tire design and processes.
Responsabilità
- Support Gen2/GenX Pre-Development using advanced dry, wet and wear simulations to guide design decisions and develop wear and friction technologies
- Evolve design criteria for wear/wet/dry (REP), wear/dry/PBN/RRc (OE) and wear/RRc (TBR) addressing braking and handling trade-offs
- Strengthen the synergy between tread compounds and tire design—pattern, cavity and construction—to improve overall performance
- Develop low-rolling-resistance (RRc) design guidelines that preserve wet/dry performance and improve wear without reducing skid depth, supporting Wear Grading readiness
- Drive ideation and PoC for GenX wear-energy technologies across pattern elements,
cavity and construction, closing gaps in the Wear Technology Roadmap (Mission #3)
- Validate simulation predictions through testing, document findings and transfer know-how to Pre-Development and Development teams
- Introduce and support advanced testing, simulation and prediction methods in tire mechanics
Requisiti fondamentali
- Master’s degree in mechanical engineering or related discipline (Aero, Automotive, Materials)
- PhD and/or master’s thesis in automotive or tire engineering preferred
- More than two years in tire/automotive industry or university research valued
- Strong fundamentals in contact, tire and structural mechanics
- Knowledge of wear, wet/dry grip and rolling-resistance trade-offs
- Goal orientation and ownership
- Clear communication and technical influencing
- Structured problem solving
- Tire design and development knowledge, especially in tread patterns and wear
- Experimental design, measurement, data acquisition and validation
- Statistics, Design of Experiments and robust-design methods