Senior Technical Consultant - Aerospace and Defence

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Job Summary

Join the MathWorks consulting team in Cambridge and help leading aerospace and defence organisations solve challenging engineering problems using MATLAB, Simulink and Model-Based Design. In this role, you will work directly with customers on high-impact technical engagements, helping them improve engineering workflows, adopt advanced simulation and verification approaches, and deliver better systems more efficiently.

This is a hands-on technical consulting role for an experienced engineer who enjoys understanding complex systems, working directly with customers and creating practical solutions. You will work across a range of customer programmes and technologies rather than being tied to a single product or platform. Most of your time will be spent on technical delivery, applying MathWorks tools in new ways and influencing engineering practice at key organisations. Additional opportunities will allow you to develop skills such as project leadership, shaping technical engagements, and collaborating with MathWorks product development teams to influence future releases of our software.

We are open to hiring at Senior or Principal level, depending on your experience. At Senior level, you will scope, lead, and deliver projects autonomously. For Principal, you will also be recognised as a source of expertise within the EMEA team and will lead strategic business development opportunities.

Why this role?

• Apply your technical depth to varied, real-world engineering problems across aerospace, defence and adjacent safety-critical industries.
• Stay close to hands-on engineering while increasing your influence with senior engineers, technical leaders and programme teams.
• Help customers improve development efficiency, product quality, verification confidence and adoption of Model-Based Design.
• Bring customer insight back into MathWorks and help influence future product capabilities.

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

Responsibilities

Technical delivery

• Scope projects, estimate work and manage technical delivery and customer expectations.
• Design and implement solutions using MATLAB, Simulink and related products.
• Deliver consulting projects in areas such as modelling and simulation, controls, systems engineering, embedded software and verification.

Customer leadership

• Work directly with aerospace and defence engineering teams to understand their systems, development processes and technical challenges.
• Advise customers on how to improve engineering workflows, product quality and development efficiency.
• Coach engineers and technical leaders in the effective application of Model-Based Design.

Continuous improvement

• Collaborate with consultants, application engineers, sales, and product-development teams across MathWorks.
• Bring customer experience back into MathWorks and help influence future product capabilities.

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

• Strong experience applying modelling, simulation or Model-Based Design to complex engineering systems.
• The ability to understand unfamiliar technical problems and develop practical, well-explained solutions.
• Experience working with customers, partners or engineering stakeholders outside your immediate team.
• Clear technical communication skills and the ability to build trusted technical relationships with experienced engineers.
• The ability to manage your own work across several concurrent activities.

You will also bring depth in at least one of the following areas. You do not need experience in all of them; different candidates will bring different specialisms. We are particularly interested in candidates with strong engineering fundamentals, relevant depth in one or two areas and the ability to learn new domains and tools.

• Mathematical or first-principles modelling of physical systems.
• Control-system design and implementation.
• Model-Based Systems Engineering or SysML.
• Embedded software development using C or C++, including real-time systems.
• Signal processing, wireless communications or radar.
• FPGA, SoC or other hardware deployment.
• Verification, validation or certification of safety-critical software such as for DO-178.

This role is based in Cambridge and involves a mixture of office, home and customer-site work. Most travel will be 1–2-day trips within the UK with occasional multi-day trips within Europe.