elina svitolina. engineer in formula one. has been to mercedes hq to speak to one of their graduate engineersll them i work at mercedes f1 and they definitely don't assume i'm an engineer. i immediately get the questions like, "have you ever "been in the car?" or anything like that, which i have not. because it's more around the internals yeah. so i work in vehicle thermal performance so you can kind of imagine as the car is going around the track, it's getting very hot — so part of myjob isjust making sure it's not getting too hot and it doesn't become a reliability issue. what has been your highlight so far? so i got to go to silverstone, so i got to go down to the paddock on the thursday before the race, which was really fun. so it was nice seeing the car and seeing my work, kind of what i've done and where i actually ended up. in terms of any hiccups, have you had any barriers that you found in the workplace or in pursuing your goal to be an engineer? in the workplace as an engineer is not something that should be people will self—select. they might think, for. example, formula one is qui