Customer Success Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
This position offers a strong combination of impact in education, technical challenge, and connection to leading academic institutions in the UK.
- Impactful role supporting university research and education
- Develop technical and interpersonal skills
- Work within a reputable organization with significant resources
- Requires strong alignment with educational initiatives
Pros
- Opportunity to develop partnerships with universities and influence educational tools
- Work within a respected company with a reputation for innovation and support in research and education
- Challenging role that combines technical knowledge and customer-facing skills
Cons
- Requires extensive domain knowledge and professional experience
- Potential travel involved may impact work-life balance
- Technical proficiency in specific tools (MATLAB & Simulink) is mandatory
Who it's for
Mid to Senior Level • On-site at university locations
Good fit
- Experienced professionals in technical and educational sectors
- Individuals passionate about improving educational tools
- Candidates looking for a mix of technical and customer-facing interactions
Not recommended for
- Entry-level candidates without relevant experience
- Individuals looking for fully remote work
- Those lacking a passion for education and collaboration
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Customer Success Engineer
- Job: 36406-OSCU
- Team: Education Customer Success
- Location: UK-Glasgow
- Date posted: 2025-10-30
Job Summary
Are you are self-driven with a background in engineering or sciences passionate about impacting education and research? Do you enjoy tackling technical problems and interacting with people? Read on.
In this role you are the primary technical point of contact for university customers. It is your responsibility to empower them to solve their technical and business challenges and to build long-term partnerships. You demonstrate the value of MATLAB and Simulink to grow tool adoption in teaching, research, and commercial projects, and leverage your insight into academia to paint a vision of how MathWorks fosters success in education and discovery.
Responsibilities
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Plan and strategize. Using data-driven account assessments you develop a strategy to engage with universities to increase their tool usage and adoption in engineering, science, and business programs. Jointly with the other members of the account team you review progress and adapt your plan.
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Engage with university customers. You are on campus! You meet and work with customers to address their needs and support integration of our tools in teaching and research. Some meetings involve key decision makers who seek your insight and value your connections at other universities.
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Create a vision for success. Be it in course work, in research, or through networking activities. It is our mission to make our customers successful by providing sustainable and proven value. And it is up to you to craft a vision to make this happen.
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Cultivate champions. Through your customer engagements you establish business relationships with leading faculty and researchers. You grow them to become MathWorks advocates on-campus and in the broader education and research communities. Likewise, you advocate on behalf of customers and influence the future of MathWorks offerings.
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Foster collaboration. Resourcefulness is a must-have for this role. We will help you ramp up to be successful and to effectively engage other MathWorks personnel and external stakeholders to assist in key activities and specialized product 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.
Additional Qualifications
- A relevant Masters or Doctorate in Computer Science, Engineering or Applied Science
- Proven working experience with MATLAB & Simulink
- Knowledge of the academic landscape in the UK is a plus
- Experience in developing laboratory or course material is a plus
- Experience as an instructor or a researcher is a plus
- Experience in a customer facing technical or marketing role is a plus
Why MathWorks?
It's the chance to collaborate with bright, passionate people. It's the opportunity to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and learning in engineering and science. And it’s a commitment to doing the right thing—for each individual, our customers, and the local community. We cultivate an enjoyable, participatory, and rational environment that champions individual growth, encourages initiative, values collaboration, shares success, and rewards excellence.
MathWorks develops MATLAB and Simulink, the leading technical computing software used by engineers and scientists. The company employs more than 6,500 people in 16 countries, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. MathWorks is privately held and has been profitable every year since its founding in 1984.
YOU + MathWorks = Unlimited Possibilities
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