Senior R&D Engineer

at  Ansys

SUMMARY

The Senior R&D Engineer is responsible for the development of software products and supporting systems. In this role, the Senior R&D Engineer will use advanced technical and problem-solving skills to help the team tackle complex issues, satisfy customer requirements, and accomplish development objectives. The Senior R&D Engineer will join a team of engineers, physicists, and computer scientists developing high performance, asymptotic electromagnetic simulators for antenna radiation, scattering, and propagation problems, including existing products (HFSS) and novel products targeting automotive radar, wireless communications, and new application domains. The Senior R&D Engineer will collaborate with members of the asymptotics team and multi-disciplinary teams across the company to develop, test, and deploy cutting edge simulation products.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• MS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics, or related field with 3 years’ experience or PhD with 1 year experience
• Working experience with scientific or engineering software development for physics-based simulation, physics-based model development, algorithm development.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Technical knowledge and experience with C++ (strongly preferred), numerical analysis, and some combination of Python, MATLAB, object-oriented design, and general purpose scripting
• MS or PhD in engineering, physical science, or applied mathematics.
• Background in electromagnetics. Physics, applied math, or other similar background also considered as alternative.
• Experience with GPU coding to accelerate numeric computations.
• Signal processing experience or coursework.
• Experience using software configuration management systems, such as Git.
• Experience in a large-scale commercial software development environment
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to learn quickly and to collaborate with others in a geographically distributed team
  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

• Participates in planning, architecture, and research
• Performs complex development activities that may require extensive analysis in areas including user experience, software design and solver research
• Employs best practices and helps to maintain them through technical reviews and mentoring
• Performs complex bug verification, release testing and beta support for assigned products.
• Researches problems discovered by QA or product support and develops solutions
• Researches and understands the marketing requirements for a product, including target environment, performance criteria and competitive issues. May work with strategic customers or proxies to assess needs and develop solutions
• Works independently with minimal supervision and may take on some planning and mentoring responsibilities
• May be responsible for managing interns or co-ops but typically does not have direct reports
• Performs software development for commercial-grade EM simulators based primarily on C++, supplemented with Python and MATLAB scripting and prototyping
• Performs problem solving, model development, and algorithm design in computational electromagnetics, ray tracing, radar signal processing, and scientific visualization, with an emphasis on shooting-and-bouncing rays method
• Performs maintenance and improvement of automated software build and testing systems, with emphasis on software quality
• Provides written and oral communication within and across teams, including in-person and virtual presentations