Senior Application Engineer - Data Analytics at Boston

Job Description

Job Summary

Join a dynamic team that combines a passion for MATLAB, engineering, and data analytics to work face-to-face with customers, understand their technical and business challenges, and help them envision solutions with MathWorks products.

As a Senior Application Engineer, you will leverage your expertise in data analytics to work closely with the North American sales team and to provide technical assistance throughout the sales process. You will develop and deliver demonstrations and presentations that highlight the use of MathWorks tools in data analytics. Some of the applications and industries that you will be working with will be Integrated Vehicle Health Management in the aerospace and industrial automation industries and data analytics in the retail industry. This position requires U.S. citizenship due to the nature of the customers served.

This challenging and rewarding role encourages a large degree of personal initiative and deep engagements with key customers. This position is non-commissioned.

Travel is generally throughout North America specific to various seminars, customer visits, etc. Though far less frequent, some international travel is expected. You should expect to travel about 30-40% of the time with trips generally no longer than four days.

Responsibilities

Working with customers

The key responsibility of this role is to support the technical aspects of the pre-sales and marketing processes in regards to data analytics applications. You will be expected to:

• Engage with customers via on-site visits, conference calls, and WebEx to learn about their business challenges and recommend solutions using MathWorks tools
• Prepare and develop product demonstrations that highlight the use of MathWorks tools to address customer challenges.
• Present seminars on topics in data analytics with MATLAB to technical audiences across North America, and occasionally internationally.
• Perform extended evaluations with key customers to promote large-scale adoption of MathWorks tools. This includes multiple engagements with customers, both pre and post sales, to ensure customer success.

Working with internal groups

The other responsibility of this role is to be the voice of the customer and internal champion for MathWorks tools in data analytics. You will be expected to:

• Assist account managers of key customers in account planning. This includes identifying target groups within the key accounts and planning specific engagements.
• Identify product-related selling challenges and opportunities and work with Development to provide feedback and advocate for customers.
• Work with Marketing to uncover areas for opportunity based on industry trends and assist in creating new marketing messaging and content.

Required Qualifications

• A bachelors degree and 7 years of professional work experience, or masters degree and 5 years of professional work experience, or a PhD degree is required.
• Experience with Data Mining
• Experience with Statistical Analysis
• Candidates must be willing to travel 25% to 50% of the time
• Experience with big data
• Candidates for this position must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer without restriction.

Preferred Qualifications

• An interest in working directly with customers to help them understand how MathWorks products are used to solve their engineering and business problems.
• Strong knowledge of (and enthusiasm for) MATLAB.
• Experience with a broad set of MathWorks products.
• Experience with using databases.
• Experience with large-scale data analysis using parallel and distributed processing algorithms, including Hadoop frameworks.
• Experience in technical sales or consultative selling.
• Experience with selling into large enterprise accounts.
• Experience programming with other programming languages (such as C, C++, Visual Basic, .NET, JAVA, C#, ASP, COM).

Job Requirements

 
Country: USA, State: Massachusetts, City: Boston, Company: MathWorks.