Senior C++ Software Engineer - Semiconductors

 Requisition #: 16043 

 

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Summary / Role Purpose  

 

Senior R&D Engineers are responsible for the design and 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, develop best-in-class algorithms and technologies, to satisfy customer requirements, and accomplish development objectives. 

 

This engineer will join the Redhawk-SC Research and Development team that creates state of the art software for semiconductor analysis. RedHawk-SC is the proven industry leader for power noise and reliability signoff for SoC designs.  RedHawk-SC enables creation of high-performance SoCs that are still power efficient and reliable against thermal, electromigration (EM) and electrostatic discharge (ESD) issues for markets such as mobile, communications, high-performance computing, automotive and internet of things (IoT).  

RedHawk-SC is a next-generation solution built on Ansys SeaScape, the world's first custom-designed, big data architecture for electronic system design and simulation. SeaScape provides per-core scalability, flexible design data access, instantaneous design bring-up, MapReduce-enabled analytics and many other revolutionary capabilities.  

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities 

• Provide significant technical contributions to products through feasibility, prototyping and implementation of algorithms and core solver technologies.  

• Participates in planning, architecture, and research 

• Performs complex development activities that may require extensive analysis in areas including physics algorithms, numerical methods, 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. Research 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 

 

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 

• Experience with C or C++ with broad and deep understanding of the language    

 

Preferred Qualifications and Skills 

• Excellent technical knowledge and commercial experience with numerical analysis, web development, object-oriented design, software configuration management, scripting languages, data structures and algorithms 

• Experience in hardware accelerated algorithms implementations (using CUDA etc.) 

• Experience in the parasitic extraction of VLSI  

• Passion for crafting robust and efficient code 

• 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 

• Ability to work collaboratively in a geographically distributed team 

 

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