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Senior Application Engineer - Electrification

🇺🇸 Plano, TX 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $123K - $191K 💻 Sales 🗓️ March 6th, 2026

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MathWorks is hiring a Senior Application Engineer - Electrification. The role involves collaborating with renewable energy providers, industrial automation suppliers, and electric utilities to enhance their system development workflows through modeling and simulation tools. The engineer will engage directly with power systems and power electronics engineers to propose effective solutions that drive adoption of MathWorks' technical computing and model-based design software.

Highlights
  • Engage with customers to understand engineering workflows and recommend solutions to improve development processes.
  • Advocate customer needs and influence MathWorks product strategy.
  • Assist customers in deploying best practices and tools for system-level effectiveness.
  • Maintain high customer satisfaction via proactive communication and technical ownership.
  • Collaborate with Sales on account strategies aligned with customer success definitions.
  • Identify new application areas and partner with Marketing for demos and event content.
  • Required qualifications: Bachelor's degree with 6 years experience or Master's with 3 years, or PhD or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred qualifications include MS or PhD in engineering/mathematics/computer science, background in power systems and power electronics, and model development for control design and system evaluation.
  • Experience with MathWorks products (MATLAB & Simulink) and engineering tools such as PSCAD, PLECS, PSSE, SolidWorks, OpalRT preferred.
  • Salary range: $123,100 - $190,800 annually.

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Senior Application Engineer - Electrification


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Job Summary

Do you want to shape how engineers support the electrification transition using modeling and simulation? Join us in partnering with leading renewable energy providers, industrial automation suppliers, and electric utilities to advance their ability to develop, validate, and optimize complex control and electrical systems.

In this customer‑facing pre‑sales engineering role, you will drive adoption of MathWorks’ Technical Computing and Model‑Based Design tools with commercial customers. You’ll collaborate directly with power systems and power electronics engineers to deeply understand their technical and business challenges, and propose high‑impact solutions that accelerate their system development workflows.

This role includes travel throughout North America, typically around 30–40%.

Responsibilities

  • Engage with prospective customers to understand their engineering workflows and recommend impactful solutions that improve their development processes.
  • Advocate for customer needs and influence the strategic direction of MathWorks products.
  • Contribute to the advancement of customer methodologies, helping them deploy best practices, tools, and techniques for greater system‑level effectiveness.
  • Maintain high customer satisfaction through proactive communication, technical ownership, and thoughtful follow‑through.
  • Collaborate with Sales to define and execute shared account strategies aligned to each customer’s definition of success.
  • Identify new application areas and partner with Marketing to develop compelling demos, messaging, and content for events, conferences, and industry engagements.

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
  • MS or Ph.D. in engineering, mathematics, computer science, or equivalent experience.
  • Background in power systems engineering and power electronics.
  • Experience developing and verifying physical models for the purpose of control design, component sizing, and system performance evaluation.
  • Outstanding verbal and written communication skills in both a group and individual settings.
  • Experience with MathWorks products preferred (MATLAB & Simulink) and other engineering tools such as PSCAD, PLECS, PSSE, SolidWorks, OpalRT.