MathWorks
Senior Application Engineer - Automotive
🇺🇸
Novi, MI
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Full-Time
💰
$123K - $191K
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Software Engineering
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February 24th, 2026
Kafka
Kubernetes
Edtech.com's Summary
MathWorks is hiring a Senior Application Engineer - Automotive. The role involves collaborating with engineering teams to develop and deploy large-scale vehicle system simulations, guiding customers on best practices, and enabling efficient vehicle modeling workflows. The engineer will provide technical leadership and hands-on support to optimize simulation performance and influence the future direction of MathWorks products based on customer feedback.
Highlights
- Engage with automotive customers to understand workflows and recommend solutions.
- Build long-term collaborative relationships with engineering champions.
- Develop and implement best practices for large-scale simulation performance.
- Prepare and deliver presentations and technical demonstrations.
- Advocate for MathWorks product direction informed by customer interactions.
- Identify new application areas and assist Development and Marketing teams.
- Strong engineering skills in large-scale model development and testing are required.
- Experience with co-simulation tools and deploying models on HPC or cloud platforms.
- Proficiency with MathWorks tools and effective customer communication skills.
- Preferred experience with engineering tools like ADAMS, AMESim, and cloud/HPC ecosystems such as Kubernetes and Kafka.
Senior Application Engineer - Automotive Full Description
Senior Application Engineer - Automotive
- Team: Technical Sales Engineering
- Location: US-MI-Novi
- Salary Range: $123,100 - $190,800
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Job Summary
As an Application Engineer (AE), you’ll play a key role in shaping how the automotive industry develops and deploys large‑scale vehicle simulations. By collaborating with engineering teams working on complex vehicle system models, you will help them build accurate, scalable virtual vehicles used for vehicle attribute setting, design exploration, and calibration.
You will draw on your experience developing large‑scale vehicle system models to demonstrate best practices and guide customers in implementing efficient workflows with optimal fidelity. Through hands‑on engagement and technical leadership, you’ll empower engineers to build and deploy large‑scale vehicle system models to streamline their development processes.
This position is based in Novi, MI, and requires 30–40% travel, primarily throughout southeast Michigan.
Responsibilities
- Engage with customers to understand their workflow and use this knowledge to recommend effective solutions.
- Develop long‑term collaborative relationships with customers’ engineering champions.
- Develop and implement best practices with regard to large‑scale simulation performance.
- Prepare and deliver presentations and demonstrations.
- Advocate for the future direction of MathWorks products based on customer interactions.
- Identify new application areas and work with Development and Marketing to create compelling messaging and demonstrations.
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.
Additional Qualifications
- Strong engineering skills in the development and testing of large‑scale models.
- Experience developing and debugging models involving co‑simulations between different simulation tools.
- Experience deploying models to high‑performance compute or cloud computing platforms.
- Ability to discuss how modeling and simulation are changing the systems design process.
- Ability to effectively communicate with customers.
- Experience with MathWorks tools.
Pluses:
- Experience with other engineering tools such as ADAMS, AMESim, Maxwell, Simplorer, Dynasty, Modelica, PSpice, JMAG, Easy5, veDYNA, or CarSim.
- Experience with cloud or high‑performance compute ecosystems (e.g., Kubernetes, Kafka, etc.).
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