Senior Application Engineer

Ansys is the global leader in engineering simulation, helping the world’s most innovative companies deliver radically better products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software, Ansys helps companies solve the most complex design challenges and engineer products limited only by imagination.

SUMMARY

The Senior Applications Engineer is responsible for leveraging expert-level engineering knowledge and relationships to support customer accounts with a significant impact on software revenue, as well as for providing world-class assistance to customers to solve complex engineering problems using ANSYS software products. This role provides technical pre-sales and post-sales support.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead in coordinating and executing all technical activities at both a pre-sales and post-sales levels, such as customer meetings and product presentations, demonstrations and evaluations
• Work independently to analyze technical needs, requirements, and state of a customer’s current infrastructure, operations, and engineering workflows
• Participate in internal corporate initiatives to further enhance the solution suites, pre-sales/post-sales enablement and professional growth; actively participate in the development and mentoring of team members
• Responsible for articulating ANSYS’ value proposition which may encompass its entire suite of products; the presentations must affirm the sales message, differentiate ANSYS, and leave a strong and positive impression to audiences which can include senior company executives
• Instruct intermediate and/or advanced training classes on the usage of ANSYS products
• Implementation of customers’ Process Design Kits for the Helic Product line, using internal software tools
• Create elegant and useful solutions to solve complex problems by working across various teams and understanding the needs of our customers

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with an emphasis on high-frequency electromagnetics or other technical discipline
• A minimum of 6 years of experience in an engineering software environment
• Understanding of Electromagnetic effects
• Demonstrated use of commercial EDA software, including Custom IC Design Platforms, simulation tools, and back-end design flow tools for LVS and LPE
• Familiarity of Process Development Kits
• Demonstrated use of Linux environments
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to facilitate and conduct webinars and presentations to customers
• Ability to interact effectively with senior business managers and C-level executives
• Demonstrated skills in writing and presenting in fluent English
• Logical problem-solving approach and the ability to clearly communicate the situation and proposed solution to the customer
• Projects a professional image and strong business acumen during customer interactions
• Possesses a sense of urgency, strong organizational and follow up skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MSEE degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering preferred
• Ability to work independently with minimal guidance
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Must have passion and drive for personal technical excellence and high performance
• Must have customer service aptitude and maintain customer focus
• Ability to travel as needed
• Knowledge of SoC and 3D IC level Electromagnetic Phenomena
• Experience with advanced technology nodes, FinFET design processes and multiple foundries
• Knowledge of signal and power integrity, including cross-talk analysis, eye diagrams and power delivery network is also a plus