The Red Bull Engineering Academy is a global talent search to identify a diverse range of graduates who will develop into the engineering and technology leaders of the future. The programme includes a unique and revolutionary centre of excellence and is a prestigious opportunity for graduates. It is difficult to win a place on the scheme and those who do are rewarded with an experience unlike any others in Formula One.
The inaugural Red Bull Engineering Academy will begin in summer 2023, with 24-month graduate placements. Roles within Red Bull Racing and Technology, Red Bull Powertrains and Red Bull Advanced Technologies are available and we are especially keen to meet those with engineering competencies in vehicle design, simulation, mechatronics, test and validation, performance, electrical and manufacturing.
You will be based full time at our Milton Keynes Campus, located in the United Kingdom.
Not only is this a great graduate placement opportunity but also a fantastic team to work for. A good salary is just the start, there are many other benefits too, such as healthcare, company contributed pension, free on-site gym, free daily lunch allowance and much more.
Red Bull Advanced Technologies apply high-performance vehicle engineering derived from competing in Formula 1, to racing the fastest boats in the America’s Cup.
Principal Designer of the Swiss Challenger Marcelino Botin tells us what it’s like to lead the team that has won the America’s Cup twice, with the help of Red Bull Advanced Technology, the high-tech performance division of Red Bull Technology:
Alinghi Red Bull Racing is,
before anything else, a team. A group of passionate people working together
towards one goal: winning the America’s Cup.
You met the sailing team a few weeks ago in The Faces of Alinghi Red Bull Racing, now it’s time to introduce the design team. My name is Marcelino Botin, and I’m honoured to be the principal designer of the Swiss challenger.
It’s a big responsibility to lead such a legendary design team that has won the America’s Cup twice, and even more so after partnering with Red Bull and benefiting from the knowledge of Red Bull Advanced Technologies. I work on hydro and aerodynamics on a daily basis, but my broader role is to keep an eye on the whole project, from a design point of view. This job has evolved a lot over time. Previously, we were designing boats; now these boats are closer to planes. I have been part of the industry for a long time and have followed this transition closely, adding the aerodynamics to the design.
But that is not the only thing
that has changed in the boat design. When I started, there were three or four
times more sailors than designers, now the balance has shifted. The design team
has become bigger. The most important thing of all is to hire people that can
work in a group, not as individuals. These people are the key to success, as
well as failure. This is even more important when working under pressure, as
timing is key. And there is never enough. Our competitors are one campaign
ahead of us. We don’t have the AC75 experience they have, but our team’s
strength lies in the talent that we have hired and the strong and positive
atmosphere that we work in.
It’s so interesting, every day we
work on something different. We challenge the process, we’re challenged, we
push the limits. A topic that Red Bull Advanced Technologies knows well. Their
high-performance vehicle engineering group supports us with its engineering and
design expertise derived from competing in Formula 1, the world’s fastest
development cycle. Many aspects can be exported from Formula 1 to the America’s
Cup. At the beginning of the campaign, alongside RBAT, we identified areas that
they could help us with, and since then, have been improving the collaboration across
many projects that are evolving successfully. We collaborate with them on a
regular basis, some employees are full time with us and others join us
occasionally. Ultimately they are all part of our project and it’s exciting to
listen to them, to learn from them and to work with them. Many elements come
together in the design of such a boat.
One of these elements is the sailors’ input. We encourage their
participation in our meetings, and we try to join them as often as possible. On
the simulator, on the boat, and on the chase boats that are usually packed with
designers. Now that they’ve started sailing BoatZero, their feedback is
extremely important for the design of our race boat. At the end of the day, the
sailors need to be happy with the product we are creating!
Design coordinator Adolfo Carrau oversees the different areas of design that are led by the following team members: Steven Robert, structural engineer lead, Gautier Sergent, sail designer, Joseph Ozanne, simulator lead, Nicolas Bailey, foil designer, and Gonzalo Redondo, foil and hull designer. From a global perspective the most important strength of any design group is how the whole team works together. When I walk into the office and overhear the designers sharing ideas with colleagues from all the other departments, I know we are working in the right direction. Each of them has a key role in our success. The America’s Cup seems far away, but we are now at an essential moment of our campaign, gathering as much data as possible from the boat, the simulator and all our design tools. Developing a design concept around this information that is competitive in the conditions that we will race in is crucial for the success of the campaign.
Red Bull Advanced Technologies, the high-performance engineering arm of Red Bull Racing Group, today announced details of its first hypercar project designed, developed, and manufactured entirely in-house. Created by Adrian Newey, Chief Technical Officer of Oracle Red Bull Racing and Red Bull Advanced Technologies, the RB17 is a two-seat hypercar optimized for the ultimate on-track driving experience. Just 50 RB17s will be made at the Red Bull Technology Campus in Milton Keynes, with production scheduled to commence in 2025.
Christian Horner, CEO of Oracle Red Bull Racing and Red Bull Advanced Technologies, added: “The RB17 marks an important milestone in the evolution of Red Bull Advanced Technologies, now fully capable of creating and manufacturing a series production car at our Red Bull Technology Campus. Further, the RB17 marks the first time that a car wearing the Red Bull brand has been available to collectors.”
Adrian Neweycommented: “The RB17 distills everything we know about creating championship-winning Formula One cars into a package that delivers extreme levels of performance in a two-seat track car. Driven by our passion for performance at every level, the RB17 pushes design and technical boundaries far beyond what has been previously available to enthusiasts and collectors.”
Powered by a hybrid engine developing over 1,100bhp, the RB17 takes its inspiration – and name – from the cars that Red Bull Racing has campaigned in the world’s most demanding and technically advanced motorsport series. Designed around a carbon-composite tub, the RB17 features the most advanced ground effect package available in a series production car. Full technical details for the RB17 will be released in due course. Expressions of interest in the RB17 can be made from today by following the link below:
Just 50 collectors set to become owners of the RB17. That ownership includes more than the car, bringing a close association with the Red Bull Racing team through access to simulators, vehicle program development and on-track training and experiences. The RB17 will be supported directly by the factory, with servicing and maintenance support tailored to each owner and their usage profile for the car.
Since its
foundation in 2005, Red Bull Racing has progressively expanded its operations
and capabilities, now located on a 290-acre campus in Milton Keynes. Red Bull
Advanced Technologies was created in 2014 and brings its exceptional
engineering, design, technology, simulation, and production capabilities to a
hugely diverse set of industries. The creation of the RB17 will both secure
existing jobs and create over 100 new positions in Milton Keynes, in addition
to the economic benefits across project partners and suppliers.
Meet the minds behind Red Bull Advanced Technologies
CHRISTIAN HORNER, CEO
The CEO of Red Bull Advanced Technologies began his motorsport career behind the wheel, working his way up to Formula 3000 before swapping the cockpit for a different driving seat – as the boss of his own team, Arden International. After guiding Arden to three team titles, Christian was brought in to lead the new Red Bull Racing Team following the Austrian drinks company’s decision to enter Formula 1 in 2005. Christian went on to take the team to four consecutive double world championship titles before creating Red Bull Advanced Technologies in 2014.
ROB GRAY, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Rob’s path to leading the team at Red Bull Advanced Technologies began trackside with the Jaguar Racing Formula 1 team in 2002. He joined Jaguar as a Structures Analyst before quickly stepping up to the role of Project Engineer following the team’s acquisition by Red Bull in 2005. As the Red Bull Racing team grew, Rob took on more responsibility, becoming Development Group Leader and Head of Drivetrain Engineering before rising to the position of Head of R&D Projects in 2009. After four years, Rob was appointed Deputy Chief Designer and a year later took up the post of Chief Designer, a task he fulfilled for six years. At the end of 2020, Rob moved across to Red Bull Advanced Technologies to run the division and oversee all of its current projects.
ANDY DAMERUM, COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
Andy joined the Red Bull Technology family in 2005, first as a Performance Engineer with Red Bull Racing, a role that saw him work closely with the team’s drivers and engineers to turn feedback into real performance gains across the course of Grand Prix weekends. Throughout his time trackside Andy enjoyed major success with the team winning four consecutive double World Championships whilst Andy was also responsible for key factory-based work managing driver development and the activities within the team’s simulator. After 10 years trackside, Andy moved across to Red Bull Advanced Technologies to take on a new challenge and is now Commercial Development Officer of the division.
OLIVER HUGHES, CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER
Oliver is responsible for bringing the high-tech solutions developed by Red Bull Advanced Technologies and its forward thinking partners to market and telling the story behind the cutting edge engineering that marks RBAT as a leader in its field. Oliver’s career started in 2006 with connectivity company Three before he moved to the world of video games in 2009 with digital interactive entertainment company Electronic Arts. After becoming Senior Director and Head of International Marketing, Oliver sought a new challenge and joined Red Bull in 2017.
Red Bull Advanced Technologies, the high-performance vehicle engineering division of Red Bull Racing, will support the newly formed Alinghi Red Bull Racing America’s Cup team with its engineering and design expertise derived from competing in Formula 1, the world’s fastest development cycle.
Red Bull announced a new partnership with double America’s Cup winners Alinghi in December last year to form Alinghi Red Bull Racing and challenge for sailing’s biggest prize by taking Formula 1 know-how and expertise from the circuit to the sea.
Located at the Red Bull Technology
Campus in Milton Keynes, UK, engineers and designers at Red Bull Advanced
Technologies will work together with Switzerland-based Alinghi Red Bull Racing
on specific areas where it’s believed F1 technology can add performance to the
AC75 Racing Yacht. In particular aerodynamics, simulation, composites and
systems design appear to have many parallels between the two sports and thus
offer opportunities to extract every ounce of performance possible from the
yacht.
Rob Gray, Technical Director, Red
Bull Advanced Technologies, commented: “We are delighted to work
together with Alinghi and their talented group of engineers to help develop the
AC75 Racing Yacht by taking inspiration from the same tools, techniques and
methods used in Formula 1 and applying these to the biggest competition in
international sailing. This new adventure will see the two worlds of
high-performance marine and Formula 1 engineering come together and with
Alinghi, we’re hugely excited to see what we can collectively achieve as a
result.”
Silvio Arrivabene, Co-General Manager
of Design and Construction, Alinghi Red Bull Racing, added: “Traditionally
a design competition arguably even more than a sporting one, the America’s Cup
has in recent times looked at the F1 teams as the expression of the level to
aspire to. To now have the opportunity to strengthen our design process with
specialties brought in from the F1 winning experience is a treat and a
privilege. The team values and spirit we naturally share with the Red Bull
family have created an exciting working environment that we look forward to
exploiting together with Red Bull Advanced Technologies.”
In conjunction with the America’s Cup, Alinghi Red Bull Racing will also field teams in the debut of the Women’s America’s Cup Regatta, as well as in the return of the Youth America’s Cup. Follow the link to visit their website:
