Senior Application Engineer

Key Skills

Algorithms, AWS, Azure, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Deep Learning, Machine learning techniques, MATLAB Programming, Python Programming, PyTorch

Job Description

Are you looking for an opportunity to grow your career, learn new technologies, and help MathWorks customers develop new products? This pre-sales role is for an inquisitive engineer with experience in the Aerospace or Defense, Mining, Medical device or Industrial Automation & Machinery industries.

You will leverage your industry and technical expertise in robotics and autonomous systems, computer vision, image processing, and/or AI to understand customer workflows, challenges, and key business initiatives. With that knowledge, you will work collaboratively with a selling team to paint a vision of how MathWorks products and services can accelerate the pace of their development and innovation.

Travel can be expected up to about 20-30% generally throughout Australia & New Zealand.

Even if you do not check every box in our qualifications but have worked in the Aerospace, Defense, Mining, Medical device or Industrial Automation & Machinery industries with our products and think you have what it takes, please apply. We would love to chat to see if you would be a great fit.

Responsibilities

Engage with prospective customers to understand their workflow and use the knowledge to recommend effective solutions.

Contribute to continual improvement of customers’ methodologies, best practices, tools and techniques for more effective product usage.

Develop demonstrations including programs, application examples, and simulations to demonstrate how MathWorks software addresses the needs of our customers.

Prepare and deliver presentations and demonstrations at both small and large audience venues.

Partner with sales representatives to provide technical guidance for selling strategies toward successful achievement of sales goals.

Advocate for the future direction of MathWorks products based on customer interactions

Identify new application areas and work with development and marketing to create compelling messaging and demonstrations

Minimum Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or a PhD degree, or equivalent experience) is required.
• Candidates for this position must be authorized to work in Australia.
• Candidates must be willing to travel 25% to 50% of the time

Additional Qualifications

• Design or development experience in one of the following industries: Aerospace, Defense, Mining, Medical device or Industrial Automation & Machinery
• Experience programming in MATLAB
• Expertise in developing algorithms in areas such as machine learning, deep learning, and/or optimisation with MathWorks products
• Experience programming in Python is a plus
• Working knowledge of cloud (AWS / Azure) is a plus
• Working knowledge of CI/CD workflows is a plus
• Technical sales or customer-facing experience is preferred
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Proactive team player