Senior Application Engineer

The MathWorks, Inc.; Hartford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in the UK is seeking a talented professional to join their customer-facing team focused on the aerospace industry. The role involves solving complex analysis and modelling challenges and requires expertise in MATLAB, Simulink, and software development in C/C++. The ideal candidate will have a strong educational background and relevant experience to drive product adoption and support customers effectively. Travel within the UK and Europe is expected.

Qualifications

• 6 years of professional work experience with a bachelor's degree, or 3 years with a master's degree.
• Experience with mathematical modelling and simulation of physical systems.
• Familiarity with software certification processes and standards like DO 178C, ARP 4574.

Responsibilities

• Understand business and technical challenges at aerospace accounts.
• Solve analysis and modelling problems for various applications.
• Design solutions fitting customers' IT environments.
• Support MATLAB and Simulink adoption through requirement analysis.
• Identify trends and collaborate on messages and demonstrations.
• Advocate for MathWorks products' future direction.

Skills

Technical consulting

Project management

Mathematical modelling

Software development in C/C++

Simulink

Model-Based Design

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD or equivalent experience

Job description

Overview

Join our customer facing team that combines passion for maths, engineering, software and MATLAB. Leverage your technical and interpersonal skills to advise and help our leading UK aerospace customers to improve their products and development processes. Work with and extend the latest tools and techniques to support the industry trends around systems, large-scale simulation and analysis. Collaborate with colleagues from development, sales and marketing to engage with MATLAB and Simulink users across industries and shape our products for the future. MathWorks nurtures growth, appreciates diversity, encourages initiative, values teamwork, shares success, and rewards excellence.

Responsibilities

• Understanding the key business and technical challenges at the top UK aerospace accounts, and developing actionable plans to support them.
• Solving challenging analysis and modelling problems for a breadth of applications.
• Designing and developing solutions to fit within customers' IT environments.
• Supporting adoption of MATLAB and Simulink by analysing customers' requirements, guiding product evaluations and creating proof of concepts.
• Identifying new trends and collaborating with the worldwide team to develop compelling messages and demonstrations.
• Advocating for the future direction of MathWorks products.
• Expertise with Simulink and Model-Based Design.
• Expertise in mathematical and first-principles modelling and simulation of physical systems and control laws.
• Software development in C or C++ for real-time and embedded applications.
• Development of software tools for engineering and/or scientific applications.
• Technical consulting and project management.
• Software certification processes and standards such as DO 178C, ARP 4574.

Travel

Most travel will be 1-2 day trips within the UK with some multi-day trips within Europe. Occasional travel to MathWorks headquarters in the US is also possible.

Qualifications

A bachelor’s degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or a PhD degree, or equivalent experience) is required.