Fall 2023 Semiconductor Intern – Application Engineering

Summary / Role Purpose

Join the Ansys Student Internship Program to apply your education to solve real world engineering problems, advance career skills and experience work at Ansys. The student intern will be part of the Application Engineering Team (Ansys Customer Excellence team) focused on Semiconductor. The intern will use the Ansys Semiconductor simulation platform and products to collaborate with a team of expert professionals to accomplish customer support objective. The intern will get an opportunity to interact with Ansys global leaders.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Create new simulation methodologies, troubleshoot problem set-ups, run simulation benchmarks, and update industry best practices pertaining to modeling and simulation of engineered products & processes
• Develop competence in one or more products working under mentor.
• Update Ansys training course material
• Create technical marketing content
• Perform literature search to locate relevant publications using Ansys or competitive products, as well as experimental data
• Triage workflow issues, identify root cause and file product defect for RD.
• Write detailed technical reports and present results to Ansys teams
• Network within the Ansys Customer Excellence team to learn various job functions such as presales support, post sales technical support, consulting services, etc.
• Support testing efforts to determine new feature readiness for commercial release
• Participate in various customer interactions such as web meetings and customer visits

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience

• Pursing a degree in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Physics
• Currently enrolled as an engineering graduate student (M.S. or Ph.D.) Ph.D. students should be entering third year or beyond of their program with a minimum 3.0 GPA
• Motivated to learn. Strong problem solving, communication and time management skills
• Demonstrated skills in writing, understanding, and presenting in fluent English
• Knowledge of CMOS fundamentals, VLSI, RTL Design

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Basic experience with Power Analysis, physical design, Custom layout, spice simulations, Electromigration, FinFet technology challenges, RTL design.
• Basic experience with Python or other object-oriented programming/scripting languages
• Knowledge of design optimization methods for engineering

ALIGNING YOUR VALUES TO OUR SOLUTIONS

At Ansys, our diverse, collaborative teams give us the strength and insight to solve the world’s most challenging engineering problems. Our ONE Ansys culture has at its core:

• Customer Focus
• Results and Accountability
• Innovation
• Transparency and Integrity
• Mastery
• Inclusiveness
• Sense of Urgency
• Collaboration and Teamwork