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Education Programs Engineer

🇺🇸 Natick, MA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $100K - $154K

💻 Marketing

🗓️ November 18th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

MathWorks is hiring an Education Programs Engineer to support student competition teams worldwide in designing and building robotics and autonomous systems using MATLAB and Simulink. The role involves mentoring students and advisors, collaborating with various teams to enhance educational programs, and creating training materials.

Highlights
  • Mentor student teams and advisors with technical expertise and guidance.
  • Support and engage with global student competitions, including attendance and judging.
  • Develop and disseminate training materials and demonstration models for MATLAB and Simulink usage.
  • Collaborate across marketing, engineering, and global teams to promote educational initiatives.
  • Collect and analyze data to assess training effectiveness and competition trends.
  • Strong technical skills required in MATLAB, Simulink, modeling, and simulation.
  • Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree with 3 years experience or equivalent; mastery of MATLAB and Simulink.
  • Preferred qualifications include MS or PhD in Engineering, competition mentoring experience, and skills in communication and collaboration across countries.
  • Experience with simulation tools (e.g., Gazebo, Unreal) and systems engineering concepts is a plus.
  • Salary range from $99,600 to $154,400 with approximately 25% travel.

Education Programs Engineer Full Description

Education Programs Engineer


Job Summary
Join a team that thrives on saying “yes” to new challenges! Support student competition teams worldwide as they design and build robotics and autonomous systems using MATLAB and Simulink.

What You’ll Do:
  • Mentor students and advisors with expertise, training, and guidance.
  • Collaborate with marketing, engineering, and global teams to create strategies and content that amplify MathWorks’ educational programs.
  • Embrace opportunities to learn and contribute to innovative initiatives.

What We Value:
  • A proactive, can-do attitude and passion for helping others succeed.
  • Strong technical skills in MATLAB and Simulink.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

Deliver Competition Support:
  • Engage with team mentors and faculty advisors
  • Visit student teams and provide technical support
  • Build social media content to connect with student teams around the world and share success stories
  • Work with MathWorks stakeholders to build relationships with competition organizers
  • Attend competition meetings and events to engage with the competition community
  • Pursue training and speaking opportunities at competition events
  • Participate as a judge for the competitions where applicable
  • Develop criteria for MathWorks Awards 
 
Create New Training Materials for Student Teams
  • Develop models necessary to demonstrate proper usage of MATLAB and Simulink
  • Develop ramp-up and other materials needed by teams
  • Leverage mentors and faculty advisors to create relevant demos and training materials for teams
  • Work with MathWorks stakeholders to disseminate/promote the training materials to teams
 
Act as a Student Competition Advocate within MathWorks
  • Collect data and perform analysis on the training needs of teams and evaluate the success of the training efforts
  • Identify competition trends
  • Interface with development staff to build internal awareness of competition needs
  • Benchmark global competitions and student trends in the robotics and autonomous systems space 

Minimum Qualifications
  • Mastery of MATLAB
  • Simulink
  • modeling and simulation
  • A bachelor's degree and 3 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree, or equivalent experience) is required.

Additional Qualifications
  • MS or PhD in Engineering
  • Experience with competitions as a mentor or student required
  • Demonstrated experience and eagerness to work in a highly collaborative, consensus-based team environment
  • Demonstrated experience working in teams across country boundaries
  • Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills
  • Experience selling or marketing in the education industry a plus
  • Experience with simulation tools (e.g. Gazebo/Unreal)
  • Understanding of systems engineering concepts 
  • 25% travel - mostly within US; some International