Application Engineer II – FTC 12 Months

This is a temporary contract of 1 year.

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 or PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field
• Required minimum years of professional experience in an engineering software environment: BS+3, MS+2, or PhD+1
• 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
• Industrial experience related to radar, antenna design, millimeter wave circuits or wireless systems, 5G, IOT.
• A solid understanding of the basic principles of electromagnetic fields and RF circuit design such as filters, impedance matching networks, amplifiers, and mixers.
• Ability to describe complex technical concepts to a range of audiences.
• Ability to travel domestically up to 25% of time

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Preferred education and years of professional experience in an engineering software environment: MS+5, or PhD+3
• Two years of experience in application engineering, customer support, or consulting services type customer facing roles using engineering software
• Understanding of RF systems, Antennas, IOT, 5G
• Experience with Matlab, Python, or another high-level programming language applied to solving problems in mathematics, engineering or physics.
• Understanding of thermal and mechanical challenges for the design of wireless and radar systems.
• Knowledge of Linux operating system.
• Familiarity with high performance computing and schedulers.
• Ability to travel domestically up to 50% of time