Senior Application Engineer - MATLAB Production Server

Job Summary

Seeking an outgoing, MATLAB enthusiast for a pre-sales application engineering position at MathWorks (makers of MATLAB and Simulink).

This is a non-commissioned, pre-sales technical role, driving adoption of MathWorks tools in enterprise-scale production systems. You will be the technical consultant/solution architect on the sales team, traveling to customer locations and guiding them through the solutions that address their needs.

This position is based in Natick, MA and 40-50% travel is required.

Responsibilities

• Work with prospective customers to understand their IT environments including workflow and needs for deploying numerical algorithms into their enterprise applications. Use this knowledge to build successful technical-sales strategies and recommendations for effective solutions.
• Develop demonstration programs and application examples illustrating how MATLAB tools are used to both create and deploy numerical algorithms into production IT systems.
• Prepare and deliver product presentations and demonstrations to prospective customer ranging from small private team meetings to large public audiences and commercial events. These sessions include, but are not limited to live demonstrations of MATLAB, MATLAB Compiler, and MATLAB Production Server to be targeted to the financial services and energy production market segments.
• Manage guided product evaluations -- prospective customers will require guidance and support during evaluations of our products to prove their value within the constructs of a feasibility or evaluation project. This will include integration of MATLAB Production Server into a specific IT environment as well as supporting the creation of production-ready MATLAB code and integration with the enterprise application.
• Work with prospective customers and their internal IT groups to optimize the integration of MPS within the firm’s enterprise software layer.
• Work closely with MathWorks development and marketing organizations to further improve products, identify new application areas based on customer interactions, and develop accurate, compelling, and targeted messaging.
• Report on progress and results using standard organizational reporting systems so those who need to be informed are regularly given information on the many projects that will develop across this important area.

Qualifications Required / Preferred

• MS in engineering or equivalent experience.
• Working knowledge and understanding of software Product Life Cycle (PLC), including software development methodologies, design and implementation from a high level.
• Relevant experience programming and deploying production IT applications using n-tier web architectures, development frameworks (Java/J2EE, .NET), and application frameworks (IIS, Tomcat/Spring, JBoss, Hadoop).
• Experience with data center IT architecture design including security, systems management, failover, redundancy, load balancing, performance scaling, and virtualization.
• Experience with the design and deployment of enterprise applications such as SQL Server, Oracle, SAS, web/cloud services.
• Basic understanding of internet/security protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, SSL, LDAP, Active Directory, SMTP, SNMP) and how they relate to enterprise IT applications.
• Experience with system installation, configuration, and administration of Windows, VMware, Linux/Unix, and familiarity with networking equipment.
• Solid understanding of enterprise environments (e.g., database, web infrastructure, front/mid office finance/energy infrastructure).

Pluses:

• Experience working with enterprise IT groups within the financial services and energy production industries.
• Strong C++, Java or .NET skills and an understanding of the benefits of integration of MathWorks numerical analysis using MATLAB Compiler and related deployment products.
• Ability to discuss how a MATLAB-based solution can fundamentally change access to numerical analysis of quickly changing market conditions within a customer’s production system.
• Experience with a broad-spectrum of the MathWorks tools.