About the role
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.
As a Senior Application Engineer supporting automotive customers, you will work closely with leading OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers to address complex technical and business challenges and help them transform the way they develop next-generation vehicles. By combining your deep expertise in automotive systems modeling, control design, and simulation with an understanding of customer workflows, you will demonstrate how MathWorks solutions enable faster innovation, higher-quality designs, and more efficient development processes.
In this role, you will engage customers across key industry initiatives such as software-defined vehicles (SDVs), electrification, ADAS/AD, and data- and AI-driven development. Through technical discussions, demonstrations, and collaborative problem-solving, you will help customers realize the value of Model-Based Design and establish MathWorks as a trusted strategic partner.
MATLAB® and Simulink® from the foundation of MathWorks’ Model-Based Design platform, integrating data analysis, algorithm development, modeling and simulation, automatic code generation, testing, and verification in a single environment. This unified approach is increasingly critical as automotive organizations adopt virtual development, AI-enhanced workflows, and system-level optimization to manage growing system complexity.
As a successful Senior Application Engineer, you will leverage your experience in automotive control and system modeling to clearly articulate how Model-Based Design supports early validation, reuse across the development lifecycle, and scalable development of embedded software and systems.
MathWorks nurtures growth, appreciates inclusivity, encourages initiative, values teamwork, shares success, and rewards excellence.
Responsibilities
The Senior Application Engineer focused on the Automotive Industry works with key customers to drive customer success by partnering with Sales, Marketing, and other technical teams to:
- Broaden Adoption of our products by building awareness, identifying new users, increasing the proficiency of existing users, and encouraging reuse of customer IP and workflows to maximize return on investment.
- Deepen Adoption of our products by helping customers expand and integrate tool usage across the development lifecycle, enabling reuse of models and artifacts to reduce development cost and risk.
- Develop and maintain long-term End User Relationships by providing high-quality technical support and proactively identifying and removing obstacles that limit customer success.
- Establish Management Relationships by contributing to customer program success and participating in discussions related to technical strategy, roadmap planning, and workflow improvement.
- Support Sales with Senior & Strategic Relationships by delivering clear technical and business value across customer organizations, positioning MathWorks as a trusted advisor and long-term technology partner.
- Contribute to account planning by participating in strategic account discussion and helping shape the technical adoption roadmap, engagement strategy, and application focus areas.
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 Japan.
Additional Qualifications
- Strong experience in modeling and simulation of control systems, building mathematical models of a variety of real-world automotive systems, and system level simulation
- Strong knowledge of (and enthusiasm for!) the Model-Based Design process and its implications on software and system development
- Hands-on experience with Simulink and Simscape
- High motivation towards working directly with customers and support their engineering success
- Practical experience in automotive applications and development workflows
- Ability to own and drive the technical aspects of account plans, including adoption roadmaps and technical engagement strategies
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Japanese, and business-level English communication skills.
Pluses:
- Experience with other engineering tools such as Amesim, GT-Suite, Modelica, Dymola or CarSim
- Experience with data-driven, AI-based techniques, including Reduced-Order Modeling of and System Identification
- Experience with real-time simulation, HIL/SIL, or virtual development workflows
- Strong understanding of automotive control systems and emerging trends such as Electrification, ADAS/AD, and SDVs
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