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R&D Engineer II (FEA Database)

Ansys
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SUMMARY

The R&D Engineer II contributes to the development of the Mechanical APDL (MAPDL) product. In this role, the R&D Engineer II will collaborate with a team of expert professionals to tackle complex issues, satisfy customer requirements, and accomplish development objectives. The successful candidate will be experienced in numerical methods, data structure and programming in parallel processing environment to improve and enhance Ansys MAPDL finite element data objects, database, and methods to access and deploy the database across different computational domains. The focus will be on large simulation models with a lot of contact pairs and constraints. These algorithms will be used to improve the computing performance and reduce the memory and file size of Ansys MAPDL FEA software.

 

Ansys is the world leader in engineering simulation. Up to 80% of the cost of a product’s development is determined by the decisions you make early in the design process, and Ansys helps its customers reduce this cost with physical simulation tools to make better decisions quicker. Customers use Ansys simulation products to digitally explore design concepts and test critical design choices early in the product life cycle. 

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Improve and enhance the MAPDL code architecture, database and basic file structures.
  • Focus on reducing and modularizing MAPDL database for large models, especially those with a lot of contact pairs and multiple-point-constraints.  Simplify inputs and minimize input file size for complicated analyses.
  • Improve the database and solution objects to benefit GPU acceleration and high-performance computing.
  • Design, code, test, document, implement, and maintain software components and systems.
  • Comfortable contributing to (and learning where necessary) anywhere within the full software stack (API design, database implementation, parallel programming, etc.) 
  • Performs moderately complex bug verification, release testing and beta support.
  • Investigate problems discovered by QA or product support.
  • Works under the general supervision of a development manager.

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics or Mechanics or related field with 2 years’ experience, or MS in the above areas.
  • Excellent C/C++ programming and software design skills.
  • Experience with parallel programming models (e.g., OpenMP, MPI)
  • Driven and willing to learn
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills

 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • PhD in engineering, computer science, applied mathematics or mechanics or related field with 1 year industrial experience or MS with 4 years’ experience.
  • Experience delivering high-quality products in a large-scale commercial software development environment.
  • Deep knowledge of FEA methods and simulation data handling algorithms.
  • Commercial experience with the development of finite element methods or other numerical analysis software
  • Passion for crafting robust and efficient code.
  • Understanding customer requirements and tools used in this domain.
  • Knowledge of or experience with CAE and Linux operating system..  
  • Knowledge of or experience with DevOps processes and tools.
  • Experience with either Microsoft or Amazon cloud environments.
  • Ability to work independently and manage one's time.
  • Proficiency in Python, C/C++, Fortran. Experience in CUDA programming