Hexagon and Oracle Red Bull Sim Racing announce winner of global esports and engineering competition Future Skills Challenge

A Spanish software engineer has been named as the winner of the Future Skills Challenge, as a UK rail roster clerk and German esports engineer are named runners-up.

The Future Skills Challenge is a global competition, held in partnership between Hexagon and Oracle Red Bull Sim Racing. It aims to demonstrate how skills developed in esports align with careers in engineering, manufacturing, and advanced technology.

More than 1,100 entrants completed the competition, with three finalists selected after an interactive quiz of rapid-fire, data-driven scenarios that tested their esports instincts and real-world engineering problem solving skills.

Spanish software engineer Antonio Masuda, who has a masters in data science, claimed first prize by answering all questions correctly in the fastest time. 

The two runners up sharing second place were Kyle Tunstall, a UK-based roster clerk at Network Rail, and Sebastian Kowalke, a former F1 Esports Head of Engineering from Germany.

"The winners of the Future Skills Challenge have shown the high-performance mindset we need for the next generation of engineering talent - the ability to work with data, think strategically, make decisions under pressure, and embrace technology. It’s exciting to see the talent pool that is emerging, equipped with hybrid skillsets that matter in both sim racing and engineering,” comments Alexandre Aime, Vice President, Global Marketing at Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division. 

“We’ve enjoyed hosting the winners at the event at the Red Bull Technology Campus, where we could showcase these skills, inspire the next generation, and demonstrate what’s possible in tackling the global skills challenge facing modern engineering and manufacturing.”

Sophia Heath, Technical Recruitment Engineer at Oracle Red Bull Racing, adds: “To stay competitive, we must reach new people and inspire them to see themselves in what is an exciting, challenging and rewarding industry. Engineering needs fresh ideas and diverse talent to shape the future, and events like this show the unexpected places where those skills can come from.”