R&D Engineer II (m/w/d)

Summary / Role Purpose 

Autonomous vehicles will drive millions of kilometres in the virtual world before the first driverless cars hit the road. Ansys is building the software toolchain to demonstrate safety in the virtual world prior to commercial deployment. Join the team that enables this disruptive technology.

The R&D Engineer II (m/f/d) contributes to the development of Ansys Closed-loop simulation application, like foundation module, enhance Driving Simulator for the need of the mass simulation. In this role, the R&D Engineer II will collaborate with a team of expert professionals to understand customer requirements and accomplish development objectives. The working mode is Agile Scrum. The work is challenging and involve communication with customer (OEM) and Ansys colleagues.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Performs moderately complex development activities, including the design, implementation, maintenance, testing and documentation of software modules and subsystems
• Understands and employs best practices
• Performs moderately complex bug verification, release testing and beta support for assigned products
• Research problems discovered by QA or product support and develops solutions
• Understands the marketing requirements for a product, including target environment, performance criteria and competitive issues
• Works under the general supervision of a development manager

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 2 years’ experience or MS with 1 years’ experience
• Commercial experience with software design and development methodologies
• Proficient of source code control techniques like Git, software programming skills C++
• Linux as software development environment

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Preferred to have modern C++ (11, 14)
• Knowledge of docker, Cloud development environment
• Knowledge of simulation or automotive domain is huge plus
• Software developing environment as Windows

• Technical knowledge and experience with object-oriented design, clean code practices, software design patterns, software configuration management, cloud technologies, scripting languages, data structures and algorithms, C# and Python
• Passion for crafting robust and efficient code
• Understanding of customer requirements and tools used in this domain
• Experience in a large-scale commercial software development environment
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to learn quickly and to collaborate with others in a geographically distributed team