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Education Technical Evangelist
Job Summary
Support faculty members to develop curriculum and to contribute to content creation and technical engagement with Universities. Serve as an advisor and project manager for sponsored curriculum projects and an advocate for teaching using MathWorks tools.
Responsibilities
Provide Curriculum Development Support:
- Solicit and identify opportunities for curriculum development
- Work with faculty members to define project scope, goals and deliverables
- Manage relationship and progress of projects
- Provide informal training, technical guidance and support to the course creation team (professor, Lecturers, Teaching Assistants, or Research Assistants).
- Help PR efforts relating to curriculum projects – publish joint papers and articles, seek speaking opportunities and build university relationships
Engage with Faculty:
- Attend conferences and get actively involved in engineering societies
- Pursue speaking opportunities such as workshops and panel discussions
- Visit strategic universities and build relationships with thought leaders
- Pursue collaborative publication and speaking opportunities with thought leaders
Create Content:
- Create materials for use by sales and marketing
- Leverage faculty engagement and course development to create relevant white papers, demos and presentation materials
- Work on projects to help dissemination of curriculum project deliverables
Provide Customer Support:
- Support labs and strategic universities through hands-on technical engagement
Act as a Customer Advocate:
- Collect data and perform analysis on the needs of educational customers
- Collect data and perform analysis to identify future industry trends being driven by academic research
- Help facilitate industry and academia outreach on an opportunistic basis
- Interface with development to build internal awareness for academic customer needs
Qualifications Required / Preferred
- MS or PhD in Engineering or Science
- 2+ years experience with MathWorks Tools
- Experience as a professor or instructor is a plus
- Experience developing Laboratory course material is a plus
Why MathWorks?
It’s the chance to collaborate with bright, passionate people. It’s contributing to software products that make a difference in the world. And it’s being part of a company with an incredible commitment to doing the right thing – for each individual, our customers, and the local community.
MathWorks develops MATLAB and Simulink, the leading technical computing software used by engineers and scientists. The company employs 2500 people in 15 countries, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, U.S.A. MathWorks is privately held and has been profitable every year since its founding in 1984.