Concord, North Carolina, US (On-site)1 open job
GM Performance Power Units LLC, a General Motors and TWG Motorsports partnership, is building a hybrid Formula 1 power unit for Cadillac's F1 program from Concord, North Carolina.
GM Performance Power Units LLC builds the power unit behind Cadillac's Formula 1 entry - a partnership between General Motors and TWG Motorsports, and the effort to produce the first American-built F1 power unit in history. The mandate is narrow and unforgiving: design, develop, and build a hybrid unit aligned with Formula 1's current regulations, capable of winning races and championships. That means the engineering IP is the asset, and it exists inside a competitive field where the delta between front and back of the grid is measured in tenths.
The technical surface covers hybrid and electric powertrains end to end: energy recovery systems, sustainable fuels, high-efficiency internal combustion, electrification, and motorsport power unit engineering as a discipline. This is embedded, control-systems, thermodynamics, and high-frequency telemetry work - the kind of stack where hardware, firmware, calibration data, and simulation environments are all tightly coupled and all worth defending.
Organizationally, the company is still being built out. A dedicated facility near GM's Charlotte Technical Center in Concord, North Carolina is planned to open in 2026, and the team is currently expanding. The stated mission is to stand up the team, the processes, and the facility together - which puts early hires in a position to shape how the work gets done rather than inherit it. Geographic footprint: Concord and Charlotte, North Carolina, with the program's output running on the global Formula 1 stage.
Verticals are motorsport, automotive, and electrification, and the emphasis is on innovation and sustainability alongside American engineering capability. For security and infrastructure practitioners, the relevant context is straightforward: a greenfield engineering organization, dense proprietary development, partner-shared data flows between GM and TWG Motorsports, and a hard external deadline.
