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Principal Technical Consultant - Aerospace and Defence

The MathWorks, Inc.
Cambridge
1 month ago
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Job Summary
MathWorks has a hybrid work model that enables staff members to split their time between office and home. The hybrid model provides the advantage of having both in-person time with colleagues and flexible at-home life optimizations.
Step into the forefront of technological innovation as a Principal Consultant Engineer at MathWorks! In this role, you'll use your expertise in MATLAB and Simulink to empower MathWorks' aerospace and defence customers across Europe to develop cutting-edge model-based design solutions to address engineering challenges. You'll be key to our customers' success, ensuring the adoption, application, and evolution of MathWorks technology. Join us in shaping the future, working alongside a diverse team of professionals dedicated to advancing our customers' ambitions and driving technological excellence.
A MathWorks Consultant has a unique combination of skills and abilities including:
Understanding customers' engineering challenges and development processes
Designing, implementing and explaining solutions to meet customers' requirements
Managing multiple projects concurrently
Establishing and maintaining strong technical relationships with key customers
Learning new software tools and technologies and building deep technical expertise
MathWorks nurtures growth, appreciates diversity, encourages initiative, values teamwork, shares success, and rewards excellence.
Responsibilities
Make our major aerospace and defence customers in Europe successful in using the Simulink family of products for simulation, model-based design and the development of embedded software.
Work hands-on with our customers to overcome difficult research and technical challenges, improve performance and product quality, and reduce development time.
Deliver high quality coaching, advisory and implementation services on the use of MATLAB and Simulink.
Work with sales and marketing to articulate the value of model-based design, and create tools, adoption and implementation plans.
Manage requirements gathering, scoping and estimation, customer interaction and delivery of consulting projects.
Work autonomously or as part of a wider team of consultants, application engineers, and developers to ensure customer success and adoption.
Collaborate with MathWorks' product development teams to influence the next generation of engineering and scientific tools.
Qualifications
A bachelor's degree and 10 years of professional work experience (or equivalent experience) is required.
Additional Qualifications
Expertise with Simulink and Model-Based Design
Expertise in mathematical and first-principles modelling and simulation of physical systems and control laws
Software development in C or C++ for real-time and embedded applications
In addition, experience in the following areas would be advantageous:
Development of software tools for engineering and/or scientific applications
Technical consulting and project management
Software certification processes and standards such as DO 178C, ARP 4574

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