Senior Application Engineer – Dyna

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 subject matter expert, you will use expert-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 create pervasive simulation solutions, advance your industry knowledge, and grow the business impact.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Apply engineering expertise and knowledge of simulation technology to provide the highest level of technical support to LS-DYNA users.
• Exploring and promoting products and new technologies in the simulation field of occupant safety including airbag, seatbelt, seat ,dummy and human body.
• Lead in coordinating and executing all technical activities throughout the sales opportunity lifecycle such as technical discovery, negotiate technical success criteria, product presentations, demonstrations, and evaluations. Work independently within multi-disciplinary teams
• 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
• Assist in creating differentiating simulation solutions using the Ansys platform and products; deploy the solutions within customers’ design workflows
• Develop competence as a subject matter expert and industry expert
• 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, develop application best practices
• Support Ansys field and digital marketing, author conference presentations
• 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 Mechanical / Automotive Engineering/Aerospace/ Mechanics or related field
• Required minimum years of professional experience in an engineering software environment: BS+5, MS+3, or PhD+0
• Solid foundation in structural mechanics and finite element method
• 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 50% of time
• Experience in modeling and analysis of automotive restraint systems
• Hands on experience of LS-DYNA or other similar tools

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Preferred education and years of professional experience in an engineering software environment: BS+8, MS+6, or PhD+3
• Proficient in LS-DYNA or other similar tools
• 3 years of experience in occupant safety for OEM or Tier1 supplier in the automotive industry, and completed occupant protection simulation analysis and optimization for at least two vehicle model projects
• Understand the regulatory requirements for virtual testing and the corresponding requirements for simulation
• Experience with pre-processing tools such as ANSA, Primer or Hypermesh.
• Knowledge of Ansys Workbench, LS-PrePost, and LS-RUN.
• Experience with nonlinear and rate-sensitive materials (foam, fabric, plastics, rubber, etc.)
• Basic programming and scripting skills, e.g. python, bash