Jobs for Industrial Mathematicians
Industry mathematicians work in industry as part of multidisciplinary teams in a wide range of organizations:
- Computer software industry
- The Mathworks, Wolfram Research, Xerox, Silicon Graphics, Adobe, and Microsoft
- Electronics and computer manufacturers
- IBM, Cray, Honeywell, Motorola, and Lucent Technologies
- Aerospace and transportation equipment manufacturers
- Boeing, General Motors, Aerospace Corporation, Ford, and United Technologies
- Chemical/pharmaceutical manufacturers
- Dow, Kodak, DuPont, SmithKline, and Syntex
- Communication service providers
- AT&T, GTE, and US West Communications
- Engineering research organizations
- AT&T Laboratories-Research, Bell Laboratories, Bell Communications Research, Exxon Research and Engineering, GTE Laboratories, United Technologies Research Center and the NEC Research Institute
- Consulting firms
- Applied Mathematics Incorporated, David Wagner Associates Government labs: Oak Ridge National Lab, Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos
- Government agencies
- The National Security Agency and the Center for Communications Research and the Supercomputing Research Center, both divisions of the Institute for Defense Analysis Center; NASA's Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering
Of course, applied mathematicians are found in colleges and universities, too.
More information on careers can be found on the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) career web site.
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