Education Programs Engineer

Job Summary

MathWorks has a hybrid work model that enables staff members to split their time between office and home. The hybrid model provides the advantage of having both in-person time with colleagues and flexible at-home life optimizations. Learn More: https://www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/resources/applying-and-interviewing.html#onboarding.

Join a team that thrives on saying “yes” to new challenges! Support student competition teams worldwide as they design and build robotics and autonomous systems using MATLAB and Simulink.

What You’ll Do

• Mentor students and advisors with expertise, training, and guidance.
• Collaborate with marketing, engineering, and global teams to create strategies and content that amplify MathWorks’ educational programs.
• Embrace opportunities to learn and contribute to innovative initiatives.

What We Value

• A proactive, can-do attitude and passion for helping others succeed.
• Strong technical skills in MATLAB and Simulink.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

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

Responsibilities

Deliver Competition Support

• Engage with team mentors and faculty advisors
• Visit student teams and provide technical support
• Build social media content to connect with student teams around the world and share success stories
• Work with MathWorks stakeholders to build relationships with competition organizers
• Attend competition meetings and events to engage with the competition community
• Pursue training and speaking opportunities at competition events
• Participate as a judge for the competitions where applicable
• Develop criteria for MathWorks Awards

Create New Training Materials for Student Teams

• Develop models necessary to demonstrate proper usage of MATLAB and Simulink
• Develop ramp-up and other materials needed by teams
• Leverage mentors and faculty advisors to create relevant demos and training materials for teams
• Work with MathWorks stakeholders to disseminate/promote the training materials to teams

Act as a Student Competition Advocate within MathWorks

• Collect data and perform analysis on the training needs of teams and evaluate the success of the training efforts
• Identify competition trends
• Interface with development staff to build internal awareness of competition needs
• Benchmark global competitions and student trends in the robotics and autonomous systems space

Qualifications

• Mastery of MATLAB
• Simulink
• modeling and simulation
• A bachelor's degree and 3 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree, or equivalent experience) is required.

Additional Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Engineering
• Experience with competitions as a mentor or student required
• Demonstrated experience and eagerness to work in a highly collaborative, consensus-based team environment
• Demonstrated experience working in teams across country boundaries
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Experience selling or marketing in the education industry a plus
• Experience with simulation tools (e.g. Gazebo/Unreal)
• Understanding of systems engineering concepts
• 25% travel - mostly within US; some International