R&D Engineer II (Advanced C++, DS, Algos)

Summary / Role Purpose 

The R&D Engineer II contributes to the development of software products and supporting systems. In this role you will be part of the Ansys Mechanical team and will work together with the team to develop advanced engineering features in Mechanical flagship product. You will get an opportunity to solve engineering problems in an intuitive and integrated Mechanical environment and will contribute to advanced engineering features like fracture mechanics, linear dynamics, coupled field analysis etc. You will also get to experience of how software design principles apply in an engineering discipline to simulate physics for next generation products. 

Key Duties and Responsibilities 

• Develop new features using object-oriented programming language in state-of-the-art Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software application based on the Finite Element Method (FEA) 

• Collaborate with a team of expert professionals to understand customer requirements and accomplish development objectives. 

• Perform moderately complex development activities, including the design, implementation, maintenance, testing and documentation of software modules and sub-systems. 

• Understand and employ best practices. 

• Perform moderately complex bug verification, release testing and beta support for assigned products. 

• Research problems discovered by QA or product support and develops solutions. 

• Understand the marketing requirements for a product, including target environment, performance criteria and competitive issues. 

• Work under the general supervision of a development manager.

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience 

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computational Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or a related field of study. 
• Alternate Acceptable Education and Work Experience Requirement: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Mechanical, Aerospace, Computer Science or related engineering field, and two (2) years of experience in a related position. 
• Work experience or academic coursework must have included: 
  • Experience with C++; 
  • Knowledge of data structures and algorithms; 
  • Knowledge of object-oriented programming; 
  • Knowledge of numerical linear algebra; 
  • Experience in a large-scale commercial software development environment; and
  • Experience with software design and development methodologies;
  • Exposure to scripting languages such as Python or equivalent  
• Excellent written and oral communication skills  

Preferred Qualifications and Skills 

• Visual Studio IDE, development of plugins or application add-ins, unit testing methodologies, 

• COM usage and .NET framework. 
• Ability to learn quickly and to collaborate with others in a geographically distributed team 
• Experience in using Microsoft Visual Studio and Software Configuration management tools (SVN, GIT)  

• Coursework in Finite Element Analysis (FEA)  

• Knowledge of agile development methodologies  

• Experience in doing research in engineering discipline like fracture mechanics, reduced order models, additive manufacturing etc. or computer science domain like distributed computing, parallel programming, artificial intelligence/machine learning etc.  

• Knowledge of software design patterns and test-driven development