Application Engineer II

Summary / Role Purpose

Join the Ansys Customer Excellence team to partner with our customers to engineer what’s ahead, solve their real-world engineering problems, deploy Ansys software in their design workflows, and grow Ansys’ business. As a hands-on expert in Ansys products, you will use advanced-level engineering knowledge to provide technical pre-sales support, perform professional services, and help translate customer requirements into exciting new product features. You will be working within multi-disciplinary teams to advance your knowledge, experience and business impact.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead/Assist in coordinating and executing all technical activities throughout the sales opportunity lifecycle such as technical discovery, product presentations, demonstrations and evaluations
• As a product expert with one or more Ansys products, interact with customers to understand their product design needs and engineering design workflows; analyze how to address customers’ requirements using Ansys products and platform; articulate Ansys’ value proposition
• Collaborate with the Ansys product development teams to translate customer requirements into exciting new product features; test new releases of Ansys products on industrial problems
• Support Ansys field and digital marketing
• Contribute to consulting services, conduct introductory and/or intermediate training classes

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience

• Required education and degree type: BS or MS degree in electrical engineering, optical engineering or automotive engineering
• Required minimum years of professional experience in an engineering software environment: MS+2
• Demonstrated use of relevant Ansys software or knowledge of other commercial CAE, CAD, EDA, PLM software packages
• Logical problem-solving, strong interpersonal and communication skills, fluent in writing and speaking English
• Strong organizational and time management skills, possesses a sense of urgency
• Projects a professional image and demonstrates business acumen, driven to succeed
• Ability to travel domestically up to 25% of time
• Provide 2 skills (ADAS sensor related knowledge + Coding capability) that are absolutely required to perform the duties of the advertised position

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Preferred education and years of professional experience in an engineering software environment: MS+3, or PhD+0
• Ability to travel domestically up to 50% of time
• Having some AD\ADAS project experiences is a strong bonus
• Having programming skills (at least one programming language) is a strong bonus