Red Bull Racing is looking for engineering students to join its team

Five students from around the world – including just one from Europe – will be given the chance to spend a year in the company’s engineering team in the UK, working fully paid on real projects for its Formula One and road car divisions.

To enter the Infiniti Performance Engineering Academy competition, students have to submit a 60-second video explaining why they deserve the opportunity. Chosen candidates will then go through a series of interviews followed by regional finals where they will be judged on a series of engineering and teamwork tasks.

“Winners will essentially become an employee of Red Bull racing,” a spokesperson for Infiniti Red Bull told The Student Engineer. “They’ll work in an existing team incorporated into existing work streams.”

Each placement student will spend eight months with the F1 engineering team in Milton Keynes and a further four months at the Inifiniti road-car testing centre in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, focusing on either vehicle dynamics, vehicle design, aerodynamics or electronics.