Senior Application Engineer - Control Systems Design

MathWorks; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company seeks an Application Engineer in Torrance, California. You will engage with key aerospace customers, providing technical solutions and building trusted relationships. This role requires a bachelor's degree and relevant experience in aerospace or defense. The company offers a hybrid work model that supports work-life balance, allowing flexibility between in-office and remote tasks.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience, or a master's degree and 3 years, or a PhD.
• Authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
• US Citizenship is required due to the nature of the work.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers to understand their projects and offer solutions.
• Create and deliver presentations that highlight MathWorks tools.
• Identify new application areas for future product direction.

Skills

Aerospace development processes

Model-Based Design methodology

Control system design

Product development

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Job description

Summary

MathWorks has a hybrid work model that enables staff members to split their time between office and home. The hybrid model provides the advantage of having both in-person time with colleagues and flexible at-home life optimizations. Learn More: https://www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/resources/applying-and-interviewing.html#onboarding.

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to grow your career, learn new technologies, and help MathWorks customers develop new products? This is a role for an inquisitive engineer with experience in the Aerospace or Defense industry. As an Application Engineer at MathWorks you will play a key role in managing the technical relationship with key Aerospace customers.

In this role, you will engage with our key customers in their design and development processes and help provide them with solutions. You will work with a world-class team of application engineers and software developers to provide technical leadership with our customers.

You will leverage your industry and technical expertise in aerospace systems, control system design, modeling and simulation, or embedded software development to understand customer workflows, challenges, and key business initiatives.

With that knowledge, you will paint a vision of how MathWorks products can accelerate the pace of their development and innovation. You will also establish yourself as a trusted advisor to strategic MathWorks customers and provide technical leadership by providing guidance on best practices, direction on workflow improvements, and connections to other MathWorks support teams.

This position is based in our office in Torrance, California. Travel will be 30-40% within North America.

Even if you do not check every box of our qualifications but have worked in Aerospace and Defense with our products and think you have what it takes, please apply. We would love to have a chat to see if you could be a great fit.

MathWorks nurtures growth, appreciates inclusivity, encourages initiative, values teamwork, shares success, and rewards excellence.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers to understand their projects, programs, and workflows, and offer solutions with MathWorks products.
• Advocate internally on behalf of the customer to ensure their needs are understood.
• Create and deliver presentations and product demonstrations that highlight how MathWorks tools address customer needs.
• Scope technical projects and coordinate with other technical specialists to address customer needs in specialized application areas.
• Identify new application areas and work with development and marketing to create compelling messaging and demonstrations for future product direction.

Minimum 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.
• Candidates for this position must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer without restriction.
• Visa sponsorship will not be provided for this position.

Additional Qualifications

• US Citizenship is required due to the nature of the work.

Experience in any of the following is a plus

• Aerospace development processes
• Formal verification and validation
• Model-Based Design methodology
• Software development lifecycle
• Agile and engineering development processes
• Strong business acumen/MBA
• Experience with control system design
• Technical sales experience
• Product development experience
• Passion for listening to customers