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Principal Software Engineer - App Frameworks
Job Summary
- Job: 34135-MKAI
- Location: US-MA-Natick
- Department: Product Development
We are looking for a motivated Principal Software Engineer with a passion for building scalable app frameworks that can run anywhere. This is a rare opportunity to evolve a well-established platform - used by millions of scientists and engineers - to meet the next generation of users in the environments (and on the devices) where they are. You must have a knack for navigating complex systems with many dependencies and constraints, then unlocking creative solutions to increase their value. You will work on a highly collaborative, cross-functional team that values maintaining open communication, fostering healthy tension, and seeking win/win solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design, architect, implement, and test innovative patterns to render scientific computing and engineering applications in the browser
- Manage state across multiple front-end windows with back end application models
- Understand how to apply bleeding edge web application patterns to an established app building platform and advocate for your proposals
- Collaborate closely with other senior developers, user experience specialists, quality engineers, and downstream users to enable novel workflows and increase the scalability of the system
- Apply strong CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, performance profiling, etc.)
Minimum Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree and 10 years of professional work experience (or equivalent experience) is required.
Additional Qualifications
- Proficiency in JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
- Experience with or willingness to learn C++
- Experience migrating complex code bases to new technologies
- Experience in API design and supporting diverse downstream users
- Experience managing distributed state and events
- Experience designing multi-window and multi-VM web applications
- Experience with multiple JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React, Lit, Vue, Angular) is desirable
- Experience working in Chromium Embedded Framework, WebView/WebView2, or other embedded browser engines is desirable
- Job: 34135-MKAI
- Location: US-MA-Natick
- Department: Product Development
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, appreciates diversity, 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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