Fast Facts

MathWorks is seeking a Senior Application Engineer specializing in Power Electronics to join their customer-facing engineering team. This role involves collaborating with engineers to enhance their capabilities using MathWorks tools in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities: Engaging with customers to understand their needs, demonstrating software solutions, delivering presentations, and advocating for product enhancements based on feedback.

Skills: Experience in electrical design and simulation, power electronics modeling, programming skills (MATLAB, C, C++, VHDL), and exceptional communication abilities.

Qualifications: A bachelor's degree with 6 years of experience or a master's with 3 years is required; MS or Ph.D. in engineering is preferred. Familiarity with MathWorks tools is a plus.

Location: Santa Clara, US; travel required up to 25% within North America.

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between $110,000 - $160,000.

Job Summary

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Work with us in shaping the future of Power 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 customer-facing 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.

MathWorks nurtures growth, appreciates diversity, encourages initiative, values teamwork, shares success, and rewards excellence.

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.

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 modeling and simulation is required
• 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 electrical or circuit design
• 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