Senior Principal R&D Engineer at ANSYS in San Jose, California

Job Description:

Ansys is the global leader in engineering simulation, helping the world's most innovative companies deliver radically better products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software, Ansys helps companies solve the most complex design challenges and engineer products limited only by imagination.

SUMMARY

The Senior Principal R&D Engineer identifies new opportunities and leads the design and development of innovative solutions. In this role, the Senior Principal R&D Engineer will act as a top technical reference, working closely with customers, partners, application engineers, and multiple development teams to define and deploy major new products and capabilities.

This engineer will join the RedHawk-SC Research and Development team that creates state of the art software for semiconductor analysis.RedHawk-SC uses a powerful purpose-built platform that enables distributed big-data analytics for advanced system-on-chip designs.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads the planning, architecture or research across multiple projects or disciplines. Sets the direction for major technical or research initiatives and projects


• Coordinates product design and development activities requiring extensive analysis in areas such as user experience, software design and solver research. Acts as a technical reference across groups or products andanalyzes new and emerging technologies and methods for creating leading-edge products and solutions


• Leads the organization in depth and breadth of technical knowledge and ability.Defines, develops, and employs best practices and maintains them through technical reviews and mentoring


• Researches and understands the marketing requirements for products, including target environment, performance criteria and competitive issues. Works with strategic customers or proxies to assess needs and develop solutions. Disseminates information about opportunities to development leaders and senior management


• Operates without direct supervision and functions as a high-level team leader, project manager, or software architect


• May be responsible for line managementof one or more technical teams


• Develops novel algorithms and solid software implementations


• Delivers code that meets requirements on schedule. Ensures that code is efficient, scalable, maintainable, extensible, robust, and easy to understand.


• Optimizes code for improved runtime, memory usage and scalability across cores.


• Ensures quality with thorough unit, regression and/or system-level tests

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 12 years' experience, MS with 10 years' experience, or PhD with 8 years' experience


• Extensive commercial experience with a deep understanding of Electronic Design Automation software.


• Recognized leadership with a track record of defining requirements and delivering state-of-the-art results on highly complex problems


• Optimization of complex software for performance and memory usage

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Expert-level knowledge and leadership in numerical analysis and matrix math.


• Mastery in delivering innovative technical solutions for large-scale commercial products


• Strong background in C++ and/or Python


• Experience in using or developing transistor-level simulation or analysis


• IC physical design and/or static timing analysis knowledge


• Development and optimization of systems using distributed processing


• Proven ability to define and understand business requirements and translate them into software roadmaps and plans


• Experience driving a technology roadmap across multiple development teams


• Ability to disseminate complex information in a clear way to stakeholders and development teams


• Ability to drive success across teams and geographies, and to mentor others

CULTURE AND VALUES

Culture and values are incredibly important to Ansys. They inform us of who we are, of how we act. Values aren't posters hanging on a wall or about trite or glib slogans. They aren't about rules and regulations. They can't just be handed down the organization. They are shared beliefs - guideposts that we all follow when we're facing a challenge or a decision. Our values tell us how we live our lives; how we approach our jobs. Our values are crucial for fostering a culture of winning for our company:

• Customer focus


• Results and Accountability


• Innovation


• Transparency and Integrity


• Mastery


• Inclusiveness


• Sense of urgency


• Collaboration and Teamwork

WORKING AT ANSYS

At Ansys, you will find yourself among the sharpest minds and most visionary of leaders, collectively aiming to change the world with innovative technology and remarkable solutions. With the prestigious reputation in servicing well-known, world-class companies, standards at Ansys are high, met by those willing to rise to the occasion and meet those challenges head-on. Because at Ansys, it's about the learning, the discovery and the collaboration. It's about the "what's next" as much as the "mission accomplished". It's about the melding of disciplined intellect with strategic direction and results that have, can and will impact real people in real ways, forged within a working environment built on respect, autonomy and ethics.



At Ansys, you will find yourself among those eager to drive the world towards the next best thing with hands planted firmly on the wheel.

Our team is passionate about pushing the limits of world-class simulation technology so our customers can turn their design concepts into successful, innovative products faster and at lower cost. As a measure of our success in attaining these goals, Ansys has been recognized as one of the world's most innovative companies by prestigious publications such as Bloomberg Businessweek and FORTUNE magazines.



Ansys is an S&P 500 company and a component of the NASDAQ-100.



For more information, please visit us at www.ansys.com



Ansys is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.



Ansys does not accept unsolicited referrals for vacancies, and any unsolicited referral will become the property of Ansys. Upon hire, no fee will be owed to the agency, person, or entity.