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Senior Application Engineer - Electrical

🇺🇸 Santa Clara, CA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Customer Support

🗓️ July 1st, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

MathWorks is hiring a Senior Application Engineer - Electrical. The role involves collaborating with electrical and power electronics engineers to enhance system development and analysis using MathWorks tools, including developing models and simulations, delivering presentations, and supporting customers through their evaluation process.

Highlights
  • Engage with customers to understand workflows and demonstrate tailored MathWorks solutions.
  • Design and develop demonstrations, including models, simulations, and prototypes.
  • Deliver presentations and live demos to varied audience sizes.
  • Collaborate with sales teams to align technical insights with sales strategies.
  • Advocate for product enhancements based on customer feedback.
  • Requires experience in electrical design, simulation, and power electronics.
  • Programming skills in MATLAB, C, C++, VHDL, or similar languages are needed.
  • Minimum qualifications include a bachelor's with 6 years experience or a master's with 3 years, or equivalent.
  • Preferred experience with MathWorks tools (MATLAB, Simulink, Simscape) and other engineering software like LTspice or PLECS.
  • Up to 25% travel primarily within North America.

Senior Application Engineer - Electrical Full Description

Senior Application Engineer - Electrical


Job Summary
Shape the Future of Electric and Electronic Systems through Modeling and Simulation

Join us in transforming how the industry designs and develops electric and electronic systems. As a key member of our pre-sales engineering team, you will collaborate with electrical and power electronics engineers to enhance their capabilities in system development and analysis using MathWorks tools.

In this role, you will:
  • Leverage your technical expertise to understand customer challenges and demonstrate how MathWorks solutions address their needs.
  • Engage in meaningful technical discussions and deliver compelling presentations and proofs of concept.
  • Support customers throughout their evaluation process, providing guidance and technical insight to ensure successful adoption.

Although this is a pre-sales position, it involves hands-on technical work, including developing models, simulations, and prototypes to showcase the value of our tools.

Travel Requirement: Up to 25%, primarily within North America.

Responsibilities
Engage with prospective customers to understand their workflows, challenges, and goals, and recommend tailored solutions using MathWorks tools.Design and develop compelling demonstrations—including programs, application examples, and simulations—that showcase how MathWorks software addresses specific customer needs.Deliver engaging presentations and live demos to audiences of varying sizes, from small technical teams to large conference settings.Partner closely with sales representatives to align technical insights with strategic selling approaches, contributing to the successful achievement of sales objectives.Serve as the voice of the customer by advocating for product enhancements and future directions based on real-world feedback and use cases.Identify emerging application areas and collaborate with development and marketing teams to craft impactful messaging and demonstrations that resonate with target audiences.

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
  • Experience with electrical design and simulation
  • Background in power electronics, electrical, or circuit design
  • Some programming experience (MATLAB, C, C++, VHDL, etc.)
  • Experience developing and verifying simulation models for the purpose of control design, component sizing, and system performance evaluation
  • Familiarity with power electronic modeling and simulation
  • MS or Ph.D. in engineering, mathematics, computer science, or equivalent experience.
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills in both group and individual settings. 

Pluses:
  • Experience with MathWorks tools (MATLAB, Simulink, Simscape, etc.) or other engineering tools such as LTspice, SIMPLIS, PLECS, or PSIM. 
  • Experience in deploying simulation models for real time execution