R&D Engineer II - Optics

at  Ansys

SUMMARY

Join Ansys Optics as a valued collaborator. At Ansys, you will help empower the world’s most innovative companies to design and deliver transformational products that drive and enhance human life and advancement. As an Optics R&D Engineer, you will contribute technical knowledge and improvements to the best and broadest optical simulation suite which engineers use to solve the most complex design challenges.
In this Optics R&D Engineer position, you will conduct research, create prototypes, and design solutions that inform the team’s decision-making. Additionally, you will evaluate our optics products to provide recommendations for improving or delivering new modeling workflows to enhance Ansys’ customer experience. These activities are key to helping develop our industry-leading simulation software. Therefore, as a collaborator, you will work on various impactful projects to help maintain, advance, and accelerate Ansys products and technologies that are used around the world. At Ansys, you can grow your career while delivering meaningful impact to human lives and technology.
The position could be a remote role or be located at an Ansys office either in the United States of America or Canada, and you will collaborate with the global Ansys Optics team. If interested, our inclusive and diverse team seeks candidates eager to improve optical design tools for the next generation of optics.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• BS in Optical Sciences, Engineering, Physics, or related field with 2 years’ experience or MS.
• ⁠2+ years of experience in optical system design and analysis using commercial ray tracing software such as Ansys Zemax OpticStudio, Code V, Ansys Speos, FRED, etc.
• Working experience with programming with C++, C#, MATLAB, Python, or similar.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with polarization and coherence theory and modeling is a plus.
• Experience in software development is a plus.
• Experience leading and reporting on projects, from the concept phase until delivery.
• Technical knowledge and experience with optical engineering, including optical modeling, design, fabrication, testing, and/or building of optical systems.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Experience in a large-scale commercial software development environment.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent writing and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to understand and communicate project overviews and in-depth details.
• 1+ years of technical project management experience.
  At Ansys, we know that changing the world takes vision, skill, and each other. We fuel new ideas, build relationships, and help each other realize our greatest potential. We are ONE Ansys. We operate on three key components: the commitments to our stakeholders, the behaviors of how we work together, and the actions of how we deliver results. Together as ONE Ansys, we are powering innovation that drives human advancement.

Our Commitments:

• Amaze with innovative products and solutions
• Make our customers incredibly successful
• Act with integrity
• Ensure employees thrive and shareholders prosper

Our Values:

• Adaptability: Be open, welcome what’s next
• Courage: Be courageous, move forward passionately
• Generosity: Be generous, share, listen, serve
• Authenticity: Be you, make us stronger

Our Actions:

• We commit to audacious goals
• We work seamlessly as a team
• We demonstrate mastery
• We deliver outstanding results

• Perform moderately complex development activities that may require analysis in areas including optical engineering, user experience, software design, and solver research. The activities include identifying requirements, defining specifications, designing, testing, and documenting optical modeling software modules and subsystems.
• Learn, understand, and implement best practices.
• Performs moderately complex optics solver verification, release testing, and beta support for assigned products and solvers. Research problems discovered by Quality Assurance or Ansys Customer Excellence teams (product support). Specifies solutions and the path forward to resolution.
• Identify, understand, and address the market requirements for a product, including target environment, performance criteria, and competitive issues.
• Collaborate with other Ansys teams and engineers.
• Clearly communicate results to geographically distributed multi-disciplinary teams and technical managers.