Internship Laptime Performance Analysis by driving simulator

Get to know your team and responsibilities

Your team and your responsibilities

Vehicle Performance Engineering division

Our mission is to ensure that Toyota vehicles deliver a unique mobility experience for European customers. By leveraging ever-better methods, data-driven insights, and human-centric approaches, we establish competitive targets and optimize performance.

DS team

Our mission is to enable early, agile & accurate human-centric evaluation of dynamic performances by driving simulation.

Your project

You’ll be responsible for expanding our performance analysis tools to better understand vehicle behaviour for laptime purposes.

• Creating a real-time pipeline for data visualization (telemetry)
• Event detection and key metrics visualization per sector & event
• Supporting engineers on correlation with real vehicle and to understand vehicle controls and tire performance
• Optionally, benchmark driver performance against existing or new driver models

Who are we looking for?

Your profile

• You are fluent in English (TME’s business language)
• You are a Master student in Engineering, specializing in AI, Data Science, Systems and Control, or a related field
• You have demonstrated programming skills in MATLAB or Python, with a focus on data processing and model development
• You have a strong interest in applying AI and data insights to vehicle performance evaluation
• Knowledge of motorsports derived tools is an asset
• You are a team player and have excellent organisation skills

Starting date: Between June and September

Duration: Up to 6 months

Confidentiality

Due to business requirement, not all performed projects can be reflected in the internship report. This issue needs to be discussed with candidate/school in advance.

It is mandatory that applicants are students for the entire period of the internship.

We can only accept students with an EEA or Swiss citizenship (not requiring a work permit or visa to be eligible to perform an internship in Belgium)

Our offer

We offer a dynamic multicultural work environment with broad opportunities to learn every day and exciting career pathways that help you explore different disciplines or areas of expertise.

Your benefits

• Flexible working hours and hybrid working (homeworking, 10 days from abroad);
• Company restaurant – Warm dishes, salads and desserts daily, including Japanese and traditional Belgian specialties, as well as a vegan/vegetarian option;
• Sport facilities – Tennis, squash, volleyball, football and softball pitches are available at various Toyota sites;
• Team building activities and other personnel related events;
• Programs to support your physical and social well-being.