Senior Technical Consultant – Aerospace and Defence

Step into the forefront of technological innovation as a Senior 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.

Learn more about our worldwide team, the work we do, and the impacts on our customers and our office in Cambridge.

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

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.

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.

Additional Qualifications

Expertise with Simulink and Model-Based Design plus one or more of:

• Mathematical and first-principles modelling and simulation of physical systems.
• Control law design and implementation.
• Systems engineering (MBSE).
• Software development in C or C++ for real-time (RTOS) and embedded applications.
• Wireless communications, signal-processing, radar, or related hardware (e.g., FPGA, SoC).

Software certification processes and standards such as DO 178C, ARP 4574 is a plus.

Willingness to travel an average of twice a month. Most travel will be 1-2 day trips within the UK with occasional multi-day trips within Europe.