Skip to content
CV Rocket
Get started
How it worksThe enginePricingBlogContactSign in

Open nowPosted 53 days ago

Race Engineer

Specialized Bicycle Components115 open roles

Where
Germany, Freiburg (Office)
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowRace EngineerSpecialized Bicycle Components · Germany, Freiburg (Office)

  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on Specialized Bicycle Components's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

12.3% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Specialized Bicycle Components postings stay open a median of 43 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.1%1 day
  2. 4.5%3 days
  3. 12.3%7 days
  4. 19.3%14 days
  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 58.1%60 days
This job: posted 53 days ago

Specialized Bicycle Components median: 43 days open

The posting

Race Engineer

About the Role

Racing has always been one of Specialized’s most powerful innovation platforms. We are seeking an experienced Race Engineer to connect our athletes, teams, and engineering organization, ensuring insights from the highest levels of competition directly influence the next generation of Specialized product

Working across Product Management, Engineering, Applied Technologies, and S-Racing, the Race Engineer will translate athlete feedback, race observations, Retül data, aerodynamic measurements, and performance analysis into actionable insights and engineering requirements and solutions that directly shape future Specialized products.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering, performance, and racing. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable working with elite athletes, world-class engineers, product teams, media, and industry partners. They are technically credible, highly connected, hands-on, and driven to challenge conventional thinking in pursuit of performance gains.

Key Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary engineering liaison between Specialized product teams, professional athletes, and race programs.
  • Build trusted relationships with athletes, coaches, mechanics, performance staff, engineers, suppliers, and external technical partners to support athletes and teams with testing, validation, and performance-focused engineering solutions.
  • Translate rider feedback, race scenarios, and performance data from testing and training environments into structured product requirements and measurable engineering targets, collaborating with cross-functional teams to influence future commercial product development.
  • Define and execute validation programs, testing protocols, performance metrics, and prototype feedback loops to support the development and implementation of new products into top level racing.
  • Design, prototype, and implement solutions using CAD, rapid prototyping, and hands-on problem-solving skills to move quickly in demanding race and testing environments.
  • Communicate technical findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences acting as a technical ambassador for Specialized innovation with athletes, media, and external partners.
  • Lead Specialized engineering support at team and athlete races, training camps, testing sessions, product development activities, and supplier visits.

Qualifications & Experience

  • Engineering degree or equivalent experience in Mechanical Engineering, Sports Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Biomechanics, Applied Physics, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in engineering, product development, performance analysis, race engineering, or a related discipline.
  • Deep knowledge of competitive cycling, rider performance, aerodynamics, biomechanics, bike fit, and product validation.
  • Proven ability to translate athlete feedback and performance data into actionable engineering requirements and product innovations.
  • Strong analytical, CAD, prototyping, testing, and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience with wind tunnel, velodrome, laboratory, and field-testing methodologies.
  • Familiarity with simulation, performance modeling, data analysis, and engineering-development processes.
  • Experience working with elite athletes, race teams, and multidisciplinary product-development organizations.
  • Strong road cycling expertise required; mountain bike experience a plus.
  • Well-connected within cycling, engineering, and supplier communities.
  • Exceptional communication skills and the ability to build trust across athletes, race teams, and engineering organizations.
  • Comfortable working across European and North American cultures and traveling extensively in support of racing and product development.

Personal Attributes

  • Obsessed with innovation and rider performance.
  • Personable, credible, and an exceptional communicator.
  • Curious, collaborative, humble, and comfortable challenging conventional thinking.
  • Able to combine technical rigor with practical decision-making.
  • A hands-on, resourceful problem-solver who acts quickly and gets things done.
  • Comfortable engaging confidently with leading engineers, athletes, and performance experts.

The successful candidate will become a trusted partner to Specialized athletes and engineers, accelerate the flow of race-proven insights into product development, and help create measurable competitive advantages for riders.

If you're an engineer, innovator, and problem-solver who thrives in elite racing environments and believes the best products are born from competition, we'd love to hear from you.

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against Specialized Bicycle Components's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.

  3. We apply on Specialized Bicycle Components's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.

  4. Every reply, sorted

    Specialized Bicycle Components's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.

  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

Get the CV for this job
By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.