Senior Application Engineer - Automotive

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.

As an Application Engineer (AE), you’ll play a key role in shaping how the automotive industry develops and deploys large‑scale vehicle simulations. By collaborating with engineering teams working on complex vehicle system models, you will help them build accurate, scalable virtual vehicles used for vehicle attribute setting, design exploration, and calibration.

You will draw on your experience developing large‑scale vehicle system models to demonstrate best practices and guide customers in implementing efficient workflows with optimal fidelity. Through hands‑on engagement and technical leadership, you’ll empower engineers to build and deploy large‑scale vehicle system models to streamline their development processes.

This position is based in Novi, MI, and requires 30–40% travel, primarily throughout southeast Michigan.

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

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers to understand their workflow and use this knowledge to recommend effective solutions.
• Develop long‑term collaborative relationships with customers’ engineering champions.
• Develop and implement best practices with regard to large‑scale simulation performance.
• Prepare and deliver presentations and demonstrations.
• Advocate for the future direction of MathWorks products based on customer interactions.
• Identify new application areas and work with Development and Marketing to create compelling messaging and demonstrations.

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

• Strong engineering skills in the development and testing of large‑scale models.
• Experience developing and debugging models involving co‑simulations between different simulation tools.
• Experience deploying models to high‑performance compute or cloud computing platforms.
• Ability to discuss how modeling and simulation are changing the systems design process.
• Ability to effectively communicate with customers.
• Experience with MathWorks tools.

Pluses

• Experience with other engineering tools such as ADAMS, AMESim, Maxwell, Simplorer, Dynasty, Modelica, PSpice, JMAG, Easy5, veDYNA, or CarSim.
• Experience with cloud or high‑performance compute ecosystems (e.g., Kubernetes, Kafka, etc.).