R&D Engineer II ( Advanced C++, Graphics, HPC, Numerical Methods )

Summary / Role Purpose

The R&D Engineer II contributes to the development of software components in industry-leading Mechanical products and supporting systems. In this role, the R&D Engineer II will collaborate with a team of expert professionals to understand customer requirements and accomplish development objectives across all the layers of the heterogeneous software stack.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Performs moderately complex development activities, including the design, implementation, maintenance, testing and documentation of software modules and sub-systems
• Understands and employs best practices
• Performs moderately complex bug verification, release testing and beta support for assigned products. Researches problems discovered by QA or product support and develops solutions
• Understands the marketing requirements for a product, including target environment, performance criteria and competitive issues
• Works under the general supervision of a development manager

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 2 years’ experience or MS
• Working experience with C/C++ and Python coding, data structures and algorithms.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Technical knowledge and experience with Object Oriented Design, Computer Graphics, Scientific Visualization, Numerical Methods
• Passion for crafting robust and efficient code
• Experience delivering high-quality products in a large-scale commercial software development environment
• Technical knowledge and commercial experience with scientific processing and visualization, high performance computation (e.g. MPI, GPU), FEA or similar computational techniques is a plus
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to learn quickly and to collaborate with others in a geographically distributed team