The error log says, when MATLAB submitted a job to YARN, /tmp/hadoop-yarn/staging/root/.staging directory in HDFS was used for a staging directory, but you don't have a permission of execution of the directory. Because you're using root user, but the permission of the HDFS's staging directory is nitw_viper_user:supergroup:drwx------. It means only nitw_viper_user user can Read/Write/Execute, and local root user cannot access to the directory.
Simply, changing the permission of staging directory in HDFS would solve this issue.
hadoop fs -chmod -R 777 /tmp/hadoop-yarn
