R&D Engineer II

Summary / Role Purpose  

The R&D Engineer II for foundry support contributes to the support of Ansys products enablement with worldwide foundries. In this role, the R&D engineer II will collaborate with a team of expert professionals to understand foundry technology requirements and accomplish solution enablement objectives. 

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 

• Understand foundry technology requirement, defining spec and work with RD to enable the solution.  

• Support foundry technology collaboration with Ansys solution, including certification, reference flow, and mutual customer support 

• Works under the general supervision of a development manager 

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience 

• BS in Engineering, microelectronics, mechnical, or related field with 1-3 years’ experience or MS 

• Working experience with EDA solution, EDA companies, semiconductor design companies, semiconductor foundries. 

Preferred Qualifications and Skills 

• Technical knowledge and experience with ASIC design flow, VLSI, RC extraction, device simulation, and/or CAD engineering. 

• Experience with Ansys tools, is a plus, but is not required. 

• Expertise in scripting languages like python, perl, TCL desired 

• Good communication and interpersonal skills 

• Ability to learn quickly and to collaborate with others in a geographically distributed team. 

• Experience in 3DIC or system-level thermal/stress simulation is a plus.