Pat Symonds (born June 11, 1953) in England, is currently the Executive Director of Engineering of the Renault Formula One team.

After working in the lower motor sport categories Symonds joined the Toleman team in the early 1980s. As Toleman grew, was taken over and became Benetton, and was subsequently sold and renamed Renault F1, Symonds remained with the team and slowly worked his way through the technical ranks.

Symonds engineered many of the teams drivers including Alessandro Nannini and Teo Fabi and made a brief move to the abortive Reynard F1 project with then chief designer Rory Byrne in 1991.

In the mid-1990s he was Michael Schumachers race engineer while also assuming the role of Head of Research and Development. Symonds remained with the team when Schumacher departed to Ferrari in 1996. When Ross Brawn was also lured to the Italian team a year later Symonds became Technical Director.

When Mike Gascoyne joined Benetton in 2001 Symonds was promoted to Executive Director of Engineering, a post which he retained though the transition to Renault ownership in 2002.