Vehicle dynamics engineer internship

Do you want to kickstart your career embarking on an exceptional learning journey? The Bridgestone Graduate Program is the perfect opportunity for you! Designed for young talents who want to take part in a development path full of learning opportunities, early responsibilities and networking moments, the program will allow to experience a collaborative and inclusive environment that will enable you to learn and collaborate with experienced and motivated team members.

During the program you will be supported by a tutor who will provide formal guidance and encouragement throughout your entire internship at Bridgestone. Your development is our goal, therefore you will have the opportunity to learn through training courses from Stanford University, LinkedIn Learning, and our internal Project Management and Technology Academies.  You will have a real impact on the Company, collaborating every day with experienced professionals and working on a specific project that will be assigned to you.

INTERNSHIP – R&D VEHICLE DYNAMICS ENGINEER

(Six months period)

Job Purpose

Her/His role will be to develop digital tools to support Virtual Tire Development process in the Technical Center.

Core Responsibility & Working relationship

The intern will work in the Virtual Tire Development Solution line inside the Digital Engineering department. She/He will be involved specifically in the Tire Models, Vehicle Simulations and Driver-in-the-Loop team. This team is responsible for all tire models and full-vehicle simulations across Bridgestone EMIA, to support OEMs as well as new product development.

She/He will be involved in the following activities:

• Interact with internal stakeholders to intercept their needs and requirements to be transferred into the digital tools currently under development;
• Develop “In-House” tools and proprietary methodologies to check/manipulate/optimize tire models to be adopted in full vehicle simulations through Digital Engineering platforms;
• Improve current digital tools for full-vehicle simulations and/or tire models manipulation adding new features;
• Manipulate experimental testing data in order to fit tire empirical models.

Job requirements

Technical background

• Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent, brilliantly achieved

Languages

• Fluent English required

Core competency skills

• Excellent knowledge of MATLAB
• Knowledge of Agile methodology and tools represent an advantage (Git, Jira, BitBucket, etc)
• Knowledge of tire models would represent an advantage (e.g. MF-Tyre, FTire, CDTire,…)
• Knowledge of vehicle dynamics would represent an advantage as well;

Soft Skills

• Able to work within teams
• Good communication skills
• Goal-oriented, motivated, creative and collaborative

Position is based at the BS EMIA Technical Center in Rome, Italy.