Principal Application Engineer - Government

🇺🇸 Chevy Chase, MD

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Customer Success

🗓️ July 3rd, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

MathWorks is hiring a Principal Application Engineer - Government. This role involves working closely with customers to understand their technical and business challenges, providing tailored solutions using MathWorks products, and collaborating with sales and product teams to enhance offerings and messaging.

Highlights

Support local sales by analyzing customer requirements and building technical sales strategies.
Conduct product presentations for customers through various channels.
Develop demonstrations and application examples aligned with customer needs.
Identify new business opportunities through market and account research.
Proficient in Model-Based Design using tools like Simulink.
Excellent presentation, communication, and time management skills.
US citizenship required due to client nature.
Bachelor's degree plus 10 years of professional experience (or equivalent).
Experience or familiarity with aerospace, defense, US government workflows is a plus.
Knowledge of certified embedded software systems and customer success organizations is beneficial.

Principal Application Engineer - Government Full Description

Principal Application Engineer - Government

Location: US-MD-Chevy Chase
Department: Technical Sales Engineering

Job Summary

Join a dynamic customer-facing team that combines a passion for MATLAB and Simulink with engineering, control design, and system modeling. Work face-to-face with customers, understand their technical and business challenges, and enable them to create solutions with MathWorks products.

As an Application Engineer focused on Model-Based Design, you will help understand customer needs, provide feedback to product development and marketing organizations to further improve MathWorks’ products and their messaging. The key to your success is your ability to build trusted relationships, internally as well as with our customers. Your interpersonal skills, your profound technical expertise as well as your motivation for continuous improvement make you an excellent candidate for this position.

Responsibilities

Support the local sales team by analyzing customers’ requirements, guiding product evaluations, creating proof of concepts, and building successful technical sales strategies
Conduct product presentations for individual customers, at public seminars, or via web
Develop demonstrations and application examples that illustrate how the capabilities of MathWorks software fit to our customers’ needs
Identify new business areas by conducting market and account research

Minimum Qualifications

A bachelor's degree and 10 years of professional work experience (or equivalent experience) is required.

Additional Qualifications

Due to the nature of the clients being served, US citizenship is required for this position.
Significant experience in Model-Based Design using tools such as Simulink
Excellent presentation, communication, and time management skills
Desire to work directly with customers and an affinity for business development

Pluses

Familiarity with common design workflows in aerospace, defense, and/or the US government
Experience in certified embedded software systems
Experience in a customer success organization

Original Job Description

Principal Application Engineer - Government

Location: US-MD-Chevy Chase
Department: Technical Sales Engineering

Job Summary

Responsibilities

Support the local sales team by analyzing customers’ requirements, guiding product evaluations, creating proof of concepts, and building successful technical sales strategies
Conduct product presentations for individual customers, at public seminars, or via web
Develop demonstrations and application examples that illustrate how the capabilities of MathWorks software fit to our customers’ needs
Identify new business areas by conducting market and account research

Minimum Qualifications

A bachelor's degree and 10 years of professional work experience (or equivalent experience) is required.

Additional Qualifications

Due to the nature of the clients being served, US citizenship is required for this position.
Significant experience in Model-Based Design using tools such as Simulink
Excellent presentation, communication, and time management skills
Desire to work directly with customers and an affinity for business development

Pluses

Familiarity with common design workflows in aerospace, defense, and/or the US government
Experience in certified embedded software systems
Experience in a customer success organization