Orla murphy, engineer at jaguar land rover

Orla Murphy grew up in rural Ireland, where she remembers how exciting it was when the family tractor was upgraded with a radio.

As an engineer at Jaguar Land Rover, she works on ways to download the software that runs every function of a modern vehicle remotely, wherever the vehicle is in the world.

Orla studied Electronic and Music Engineering at the University of Glasgow. She won the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award in 2015.

Orla’s route into engineering

In this interview, Orla talks about her own route into engineering.

Watch Orla’s Born to Engineer film