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STEM Outreach Engineer

🇺🇸 Natick, MA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Software Engineering

🗓️ November 11th, 2024

K-12 Matlab Simulink

Edtech.com's Summary

MathWorks is hiring a STEM Outreach Engineer to join their Education Marketing team. This remote position involves supporting and collaborating with educators and students to integrate MATLAB and Simulink into STEM Outreach programs, aiming to inspire future scientists and engineers.

Highlights

  • Support STEM Outreach educators and students to effectively use MATLAB and Simulink.
  • Initiate and scale programs to provide access to software, training, teaching, and learning resources.
  • Create courseware content, videos, and workshops for educators and students.
  • Train educators to promote best practices in teaching with MATLAB and Simulink.
  • Engage students in STEM careers through content, speakers, and mentors.
  • Identify and collaborate with thought-leaders and external partners.
  • A bachelor's degree and 6 years of experience (or equivalent) required.
  • Proficiency in MATLAB and Simulink is necessary.
  • Role requires travel approximately 15% of the time.

STEM Outreach Engineer Full Description

Job Summary

Join our Education Marketing team as a STEM Outreach Engineer to catalyze, engage, and inspire future scientists and engineers to bridge the STEM gap and prepare the future workforce. In this role, you will support and collaborate with educators and students in STEM Outreach programs to connect them to MATLAB and Simulink.

The goal of this role is to spark awareness and usage of MATLAB and Simulink by developing and supporting scalable programs to open access for STEM for all. In this role you will partner with STEM Outreach programs by guiding them to access MATLAB, training, and curriculum resources to develop skills with MATLAB and Simulink and demonstrate their use with hands-on projects, demos, and workshops.

This role requires that you are passionate about STEM education, using MATLAB and Simulink, and engaging with students and faculty. You need to be creative, flexible, and innovative. You will implement ideas to address how to work with different audiences of various technical and non-technical backgrounds to convey value for what MathWorks is offering for STEM collaboration and outreach.

Responsibilities

Support STEM Outreach educators and students to effectively use MATLAB and Simulink:

  • Support existing scalable STEM Outreach programs focused on K-12 and community colleges outreach activities
  • Initiate and scale new programs to provide access to software, training, teaching, and learning resources to educators and students to nurture STEM skills
  • Create courseware content (including Live Scripts, examples, etc.), videos, hands-on workshops, and other artifacts for educators and students,
  • Train STEM educators to promote best practices in teaching with MATLAB and Simulink
  • Help students see themselves in STEM careers by showcasing content, speakers, and mentors
  • Identify thought-leaders to share insights, inform, and scale best practices in STEM
  • Partner with internal and external stakeholders to identify, adapt, and share engaging courseware and workshops for educators and students
  • Identify external partners and strategies to share resources, best practices, and curriculum content for educators and students broadly

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
 
  • Proficient with MATLAB and Simulink
  • Experienced and passionate about teaching in a pre-university environment
  • Strong project management skills
  • Experience defining STEM program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvement
  • Strong communication in various forms (spoken, written, non-verbal, and more) with both internal and external stakeholders.
  • Collaboration experience with cross-functional teams
  • Strong presentation skills
  • Travel (~15%)