Principal R&D Engineer

 Requisition #: 16057 

 

Our Mission: Powering Innovation That Drives Human Advancement  

 

When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys. 

 

Innovate With Ansys, Power Your Career.  

 

Summary / Role Purpose

The Principal R&D Engineer helps lead and contributes to the design and development of innovative solutions.  In this role, the Principal R&D Engineer with work closely with development teams, customers, partners and application engineers to define and deploy major new flows, methods and capabilities with a primary focus on the High-Performance Computing ecosystem. 

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Leads the planning, architecture or research across multiple projects or disciplines
• Coordinates product design and development activities requiring extensive analysis in areas such as user experience, software design and solver research.  Acts as a technical reference across groups or products
• Defines, develops, and employs best practices and maintains them through technical reviews and mentoring
• Performs highly complex bug verification, release testing, and beta support across multiple products.  Coordinates the QA or product support teams on problems discovered and develops solutions
• Researches and understands the marketing requirements for products, including target environment, performance criteria and competitive issues. Works with strategic customers or proxies to assess needs and develop solutions
• Operates without direct supervision and functions as a high-level team leader, project manager, or software architect
• May be responsible for line management of a small technical team but primary duties are of an individual technical nature

 

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 12 years’ experience, MS with 10 years’ experience, or PhD with 8 years’ experience
• Extensive commercial experience in Software Design and Development. 
• Demonstrated leadership with a track record of delivering state-of-the-art results on complex problems

 

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Expert-level knowledge and leadership in Cloud, HPC and DevOps
• Experience with Go, Python, Containers and Kubernetes
• Linux Experience
• Experience with distributed computing technologies like micro-service architectures and APIs (gRPC, REST)
• Experience in a team-based software development environments, and with version control such as GIT
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Passion to create high quality software in a productive team
• Ability to learn quickly and to collaborate with others in a geographically distributed team
• Experience leading technical efforts to deliver innovative solutions that advance large-scale commercial products
• Proven ability to understand business requirements and translate them into software roadmaps and plans
• Ability to convey complex information in a clear way to stakeholders and development teams

 

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 an