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Summary / Role Purpose
The Senior Principal R&D Engineer (m/f/d) 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.
Key Duties and 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 and analyzes 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 management of one or more technical teams
Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience
• BS Computer Science, or related field or equivalent experience with 12 years’ experience, MS with 10 years’ experience, or PhD with 8 years’ experience
• Extensive commercial experience with a deep understanding of modern software development and cloud architecture. Excellent coding skills in multiple coding languages (e.g C++, C#, Go, and Python)
• Recognized leadership with a track record of defining requirements and delivering state-of-the-art results on highly complex problems
Preferred Qualifications and Skills
• Expert-level knowledge and leadership in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), microservices architecture, and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Expertise in Agile methodologies, DevOps tool chains, and continuous integration/delivery processes.
• Proficiency in Java and API design, along with familiarity with Ansible and/or similar technology.
• Knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases, web technologies (JavaScript, Angular, React), and authentication/authorization platforms.
• Mastery in delivering innovative technical solutions for large-scale commercial products
• 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
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