Mechatronic Control Systems - Application Engineer

Job Summary

As an Application Engineer (AE) you have the opportunity to help shape the way industry develops mechatronic control systems. By partnering with other mechanical, electrical, and controls engineers, you will help them advance their ability to develop mechatronic 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 mechanical, electrical, and control design to understand and effectively communicate the benefits of Model-Based Design. You will spend most of your time working closely with customers who develop physical models of electrical and mechanical 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 25% 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.
• Support customers to establish a process for developing physical models and work closely with them to realize this process through deep technical engagements
• Working closely with MathWorks development and marketing organizations to further improve products and to identify new application areas based on customer interactions

Qualifications Required / Preferred

• This position requires “US Citizenship” due to the nature of the customers served
• M.S. or Ph.D. in Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Understands mathematical theory of modeling mechanical and electrical components
• Experience developing and verifying physical models for the purpose of control design, component sizing, and system performance evaluation
• Experience in deploying physical models for real time execution using hardware in the loop (HIL) systems
• 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 with MathWorks tools or other engineering tools such as ADAMS, AMESim, Dynasty, Modelica, Easy5, veDYNA, CarSim, Sabre, or SPICE.

Keywords:  mechanical, electrical, control systems, robotics, mechatronics