Senior Application Engineer - Electrification

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.

Why MathWorks?

It's the chance to collaborate with bright, passionate people. It's the opportunity to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and learning in engineering and science. And it’s a commitment to doing the right thing—for each individual, our customers, and the local community. We cultivate an enjoyable, participatory, and rational environment that champions individual growth, encourages initiative, values collaboration, shares success, and rewards excellence.

MathWorks develops MATLAB and Simulink, the leading technical computing software used by engineers and scientists. The company employs more than 6,500 people in 16 countries, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. MathWorks is privately held and has been profitable every year since its founding in 1984.

**YOU + MathWorks = Unlimited Possibilities**