Senior R&D Engineer (Remote - US)

Summary / Role Purpose

The Senior R&D Engineer will collaborate with others to produce, extend, and maintain our next generation cloud simulation platform set to unlock a new breed of simulation opportunities. 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.

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
• Participates with on call rotation as alerts arise

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

• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent technical knowledge, particularly in platform engineering
• Commercial experience with Java, Python and/or Go.
• Experience with web development, aspect oriented programming, software configuration management, scripting languages, data structures and algorithms
• Experience with github actions or other actions
• Experience with frameworks like Springboot or Fast Api
• Experience with testing frameworks/packages like Junit, Mockito, pyfixtures, or locust
• Understanding of what is under the hood of most modern frameworks (including websockets)
• Experience with one or more industry standard Cloud Service Providers, including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Experience delivering high-quality products in a large-scale commercial software development environment
• Understanding of customer requirements and tools used in this domain
• Ability to work collaboratively in a geographically distributed team

Rewards and Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.

At Ansys, part of Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability.