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 Requisition #: 15255 

 

Our Mission: Powering Innovation That Drives Human Advancement  

 

When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys. 

 

Innovate With Ansys, Power Your Career.  

 

Summary / Role Purpose

As a Principal R&D Engineer in the Ansys CFD business you will be responsible for design, development, and maintenance of our GPU solver capability as part of our multi-physics simulation and platform team. You will be required to work with the solver physics teams to design and implement architecture that facilitates critical feature development in the areas partitioning, solver meshing algorithms, discretization, solution algorithms, linear solvers and post processing.  In addition, ensuring that the solver architecture is deployable on cloud hardware and is efficiently integrated for use with the Ansys CFD user environment on both desktop and cloud will be a key part of this role.

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead development of features requiring cross team interaction with customer support, testing, documentation and other development teams.
• Gather requirements from customers, support staff and product management.  Design and plan implementation of architecture to address those requirements.
• Keep yourself up to date on the latest technologies and architecture for GPU development.  Use that knowledge to help successfully deliver Ansys CFD GPU capabilities in our unified user environment on both desktop and web.
• Employ best practices and help to maintain them through technical reviews and mentoring.  Support the wider team with assessing how to approach solving technical implementation details.
• Develop, debug, and proactively refactor a mixed language code base including Python and C/C++ on both Windows and Linux platforms.
• Provide mentoring of junior developers and get involved directly in the planning and prioritization of features.
• Contribute to the software development lifecycle by planning and completing tasks within the team’s test-driven iterative/incremental, and broader agile practices.

 

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience

• MS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 7 years’ experience or PhD with 5 years’ experience
• In-depth experience developing GPU applications using CUDA, HIP or OpenCL.
• Deep experience with development tooling such as Git, Visual Studio, Eclipse, gcc/g++ and clang on both Windows and Linux
• Strong technical knowledge and commercia experience with C/C++ and Python

 

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Familiarity with, or willing to learn about, a variety of new areas including, AI/ML, physcal modelling and solution methods.
• Passionate about crafting robust and efficient code and experience delivering high-quality products in a large-scale commercial software development environment.
• Ability to learn quickly, work collaboratively and effectively communicate in a geogaphically distributed team.
• Motivated to lead teams, directly or virtual, to find solutions to customer problems.

 

At Ansys, we know that changing the world takes vision, skill, and each other. We fuel new ideas, build relationships, and help each other realize our greatest potential. We are ONE Ansys. We operate on three key components: the commitments to our stakeholders, the behaviors of how we work together, and the actions of how we deliver results. Together as ONE Ansys, we are powering innovation that drives human advancement. 

  

Our Commitments: 

• Amaze with innovative products and solutions
• Make our customers incredibly successful
• Act with integrity
• Ensure employees thrive and shareholders prosper

 

Our Values: 

• Adaptability: Be open, welcome what's next
• Courage: Be courageous, move forward passionately
• Generosity: Be generous, share, listen, serve
• Authenticity: Be you, make us stronger

 

Our Actions: 

• We commit to audacious goals
• We work seamlessly as a team
• We demonstrate mastery
• We deliver outstanding results

 

INCLUSION IS AT OUR CORE 
We believe diverse thinking leads to better outcomes. We are committed to creating and nurturing a workplace that fuels this by welcoming people, no matter their background, identity, or experience, to a workplace where they are valued and where diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging thrive. 

 
WELCOME WHAT’S NEXT IN YOUR CAREER AT ANSYS 

At Ansys, you will find yourself among the sharpest minds and most visionary leaders across the globe. Collectively we strive to change the world with innovative technology and transformational solutions. With a prestigious reputation in working with 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. Our team is passionate about pushing the limits of world-class simulation technology, empowering our customers to turn their design concepts into successful, innovative products faster and at a lower cost. 

  

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.” And it’s about the melding of disciplined intellect with strategic direction and results that have, can, and do impact real people in real ways. All this is forged within a working environment built on respect, autonomy, and ethics. 
  

CREATING A PLACE WE’RE PROUD TO BE  
Ansys is an S&P 500 company and a member of the NASDAQ-100. We are proud to have been recognized for the following more recent awards, although our list goes on: Newsweek’s Most Loved Workplace globally and in the U.S., Gold Stevie Award Winner, America’s Most Responsible Companies, Fast Company World Changing Ideas, Great Place to Work Certified (Belgium, China, Greece, France, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and U.K.). 

  
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.