Senior R&D Engineer - CFD (m/f/d) - HYBRID

at  Ansys

MINIMUM EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS AND EXPERIENCE

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 5 years’ experience, MS with 3 years’ experience, or PhD with 1 year experience
• Commercial experience with software design and development methodologies

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• Course work and practical experience developing models in computational fluid dynamics and thermal sciences
• Practical experience in numerical software development
• Fortran experience
• Willingness to learn scientific computer languages, e.g. Fortran, Python
• Familiarity with commercial CFD software
• Familiarity with various aspects of parallel computing and HPC
• Experience delivering high-quality products in a large-scale commercial software development environment
• Understanding of customer requirements and tools used in this domain
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Oral and written English proficiency
• Ability to work collaboratively in a geographically distributed team
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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

SUMMARY / ROLE PURPOSE

The Senior R&D Engineer (m/f/d) 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. You will be working in a team with highly skilled and experienced peers, advancing an industry leading commercial solver for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for general purpose and turbomachinery applications. Among other items, areas of work may include improving algorithmic, numerical and high-performance computing (HPC) aspects of the software.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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