Application Engineer - Physical Modeling (Hydraulics)

Job Summary

As an Application Engineer (AE) you have the opportunity to help shape the way industry develops hydraulics control systems. By partnering with other hydraulics and controls engineers, you will help them advance their ability to develop hydraulic control systems through the use of modeling and simulation. Not only will you help them develop the systems more rapidly, but the resulting design will contain less defects.

You will leverage your experiences in hydraulics and control design to understand and effectively communicate the benefits of Model-Based Design. You will spend most of your time working with customers who develop physical models of hydraulics systems, simulate these systems, develop control strategies using physical models, and deploy physical models on a Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) bench.

This position is located in Novi, MI. Travel is generally throughout North America specific to various seminars, customer visits, etc. Though far less frequent, some international travel is available. The candidate should expect to travel about 30-40% of the time with trips generally no longer than four days.

Responsibilities

• Providing technical pre-sales support and guidance toward ensuring the successful achievement of the annual goals of the MathWorks Sales organization.
• Working with prospective customers to understand their workflow and using this knowledge to build successful technical-sales strategies and recommend effective solutions.
• Leveraging product knowledge and industry experience to give sound recommendations on how solutions from MathWorks can improve the results of customer product development processes.
• Developing demonstration programs, application examples, and simulations. These are generally used to demonstrate how the capabilities of MathWorks software address the needs of our customers.
• Working closely with MathWorks development and marketing organizations to further improve products, to identify new application areas based on customer interactions, and to develop accurate and compelling messaging targeting the marketplace.
• Preparing and delivering product presentations and demonstrations at both small customer meetings and to larger audiences at public and private events. These 'product-centric' sessions include, but are not limited to live demonstrations of MATLAB, Simulink, Stateflow, Simscape, SimHydraulics, and Simulink Coder.

Qualifications Required / Preferred

• MS or Ph.D. in engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Understands mathematical theory of modeling hydraulic components.
• Experience developing and verifying physical models for the purpose of control design, component sizing, and system performance evaluation.
• Ability to discuss how modeling and simulation are changing the systems design process in a fundamental way.
• Able to effectively communicate his/her passion for MathWorks software to our customers. Candidates should be interested in working directly with customers to help them understand how to apply our products to their problems.

Pluses:

• Experience in deploying models for real time execution such as Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) applications.
• Experience with MathWorks tools or other engineering tools such as ADAMS, AMESim, Dynasty, Modelica, Easy5, veDYNA, CarSim, Dymola, MapleSim, or SystemModeler.

Keywords:  hydraulics, electro hydraulic, hydrostat commercial vehicle, transmission, brake, automotive, modeling, pneumatic, model-based design, model based development, mechatronics, multibody simulation, Hardware in the loop (HIL)