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.
• Strong computing skills with demonstrated knowledge of RESTful API, API schemas, sustainable development practices, requirements and needs of maintaining business-critical services.
• Technical knowledge and commercial experience developing distributed API services written in TypeScript using the Node.js framework in an Agile development environment.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• Excellent technical knowledge and commercial experience with OpenAPI, Azure, Node.js, and Kubernetes.
• Experience delivering high-quality products in a large-scale commercial organization
• Understanding of customer requirements and tools used in this domain
• 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: our commitments to stakeholders, our values that guide how we work together, and our actions to deliver results. 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

• Performs complex development activities that may require extensive research and analysis in areas including user experience, software design, and application use. • Employs best practices for design and development and helps the team to maintain quality standards through technical reviews and mentoring.

• Performs complex defect analysis, develops corrective solutions, and supports pre- and post-release testing and verification efforts.
• Contributes and maintains shared documentation of services, architecture and design.
• Investigates and corrects issues discovered by QA and customer support.
• 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.
• Leads on planning, architecture, and research activities.
• Works independently with minimal supervision and is responsible for the planning and coordination of development efforts

SUMMARY / ROLE PURPOSE

The Senior R&D Engineer joins the Licensing team of the Release Management Unit and is responsible for the development of Licensing Cloud-based solutions, delivering the next iteration of world-class enterprise-grade licensing services. 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 to deliver business-critical services for a growing user base.
Ansys is the global leader in engineering simulation, helping the world’s most innovative companies deliver radically better products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software, Ansys helps companies solve the most complex design challenges and engineer products limited only by imagination.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contributes to planning, architecture, design, and research activities.

• Performs complex development activities that may require extensive research and analysis in areas including user experience, software design, and application use. • Employs best practices for design and development and helps the team to maintain quality standards through technical reviews and mentoring.

• Performs complex defect analysis, develops corrective solutions, and supports pre- and post-release testing and verification efforts.
• Contributes and maintains shared documentation of services, architecture and design.
• Investigates and corrects issues discovered by QA and customer support.
• 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.
• Leads on planning, architecture, and research activities.
• Works independently with minimal supervision and is responsible for the planning and coordination of development efforts.