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MathWorks

Senior User Experience Researcher

🇺🇸 Natick, MA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Product Development

🗓️ September 17th, 2025

Miro Python

Edtech.com's Summary

MathWorks is hiring a Senior User Experience Researcher. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user experience for MathWorks products by conducting user research, validating design solutions, and advocating for technical users throughout the product development lifecycle.

Highlights
  • Collaborate with development teams to improve user experience for technical software products.
  • Conduct qualitative and quantitative user research methods such as interviews, surveys, usability testing, and card sorting.
  • Identify user pain points and workflows to inform product strategy and design direction.
  • Advocate for users and provide recommendations based on user feedback for design considerations.
  • Contribute to product requirements and design documentation.
  • Experience with user research tools like UserZoom, OptimalWorkshop, Morae, and Miro.
  • Familiarity with research methodologies both quantitative and qualitative.
  • STEM degree required, with preference for fields such as Engineering, Computer Science, Cognitive Sciences, or Human Computer Interaction.
  • Knowledge of MATLAB, Simulink, programming languages (Python, C++, R, JavaScript), or GitHub is a plus.
  • Required qualifications include a bachelor's degree plus six years relevant experience, or a master's degree with three years experience, or a PhD or equivalent.

Senior User Experience Researcher Full Description

Senior User Experience Researcher


Job Summary
Would you like to join a User Experience team that is constantly solving new and exciting design problems in Simulink, with a focus on integrating Generative AI capabilities into model based design? Join our cross-functional team and steer projects through the full process, from understanding our users and their needs, to testing concepts and prototypes, through launch and monitoring solutions in the market. 

We're dedicated to crafting clear and effective user experiences for technical software products that improve the world. You may be right for this role if you are: 
  • Energized by talking to customers and love tackling exciting problems 
  • Passionate about the user experience and want to join a dynamic UX team that is constantly solving new and exciting problems 
  • Interested in being a core member of the development team that builds products that make the world a better place 
  • Interested in improving programming and model-based design workflows for scientists and engineers 

Our user experience team has over 100 passionate user experience professionals with experience in user research, usability testing and design. As strategic business partners, we work closely with our product teams and contribute throughout the product development life cycle to develop new products, features, and enhance legacy products.   

Responsibilities
As a UX Researcher, you will collaborate with members of a cross-functional development team to improve the user experience for MathWorks products and applications. You will follow a user-centered design approach and work collaboratively to research, design, and validate innovative solutions to complex problems. 
  • Identify which user research methods to use to answer questions about users and design directions based on projects' needs, goals and constraints 
  • Conduct user research, identify user pains, and study user workflows to impact strategy and product direction 
  • Act as an advocate for our technical users 
  • Execute a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods such as, but not limited to, user interviews, surveys, usability testing, and card sorting 
  • Help the teams interpret and understand user feedback and provide recommendations for design considerations based on that feedback 
  • Contribute to requirements and collaborate on design documents 

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
STEM Degree (e.g., Industrial or Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Cognitive Sciences, Human Computer Interaction, or other relevant degree)

Experience with relevant research and collaboration tools (e.g., UserZoom, OptimalWorkshop, Morae, Miro) 

Experience with a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies 

Knowledge of MATLAB, Simulink, other programming languages (Python, C++, R, or JS), or GitHub is a plus

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