Senior R&D Engineer (Cloud Platform Developer)

Location: Hendersonville
Posted on: June 23, 2025

Job Description:

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 The Senior R&D Engineer will collaborate with others to produce, extend, and maintain our next generation cloud simulation platform set to unlock a new breed of simulation opportunities. In this role, the Senior R&D Engineer will use advanced technical and problem-solving skills to help the team tackle complex issues, satisfy customer requirements, and accomplish development objectives. Key Duties and Responsibilities • Participates in planning, architecture, and research • Performs complex development activities that may require extensive analysis in areas including user experience, software design and solver research • Employs best practices and helps to maintain them through technical reviews and mentoring • Performs complex bug verification, release testing and beta support for assigned products. • Researches problems discovered by QA or product support and develops solutions • Researches and understands the marketing requirements for a product, including target environment, performance criteria and competitive issues. May work with strategic customers or proxies to assess needs and develop solutions • Works independently with minimal supervision and may take on some planning and mentoring responsibilities • May be responsible for managing interns or co-ops but typically does not have direct reports • Participates with on call rotation as alerts arise Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience • BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 5 years’ experience, MS with 3 years’ experience, or PhD with 1 year experience • Commercial experience with software design and development methodologies Preferred Qualifications and Skills • Good communication and interpersonal skills • Excellent technical knowledge, particularly in platform engineering • Commercial experience with Java, Python and/or Go. • Experience with web development, aspect oriented programming, software configuration management, scripting languages, data structures and algorithms • Experience with github actions or other actions • Experience with frameworks like Springboot or Fast Api • Experience with testing frameworks/packages like Junit, Mockito, pyfixtures, or locust • Understanding of what is under the hood of most modern frameworks (including websockets) • Experience with one or more industry standard Cloud Service Providers, including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud • Experience delivering high-quality products in a large-scale commercial software development environment • Understanding of customer requirements and tools used in this domain • Ability to work collaboratively in a geographically distributed team

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