Senior Embedded Engineer – Electrification

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 an hands-on expert in Ansys products, you will use advanced-level engineering knowledge to provide technical 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

• Lead in mentoring and guidance to the electromagnetic modeling and simulation community
• Credibly and professionally on a strategy that delivers value to the customer that can be seen by reducing product cost, improving quality, and reducing time to market by adopting simulation throughout the design process
• 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
• Understand customer’s business needs and expand application of ANSYS tools to new areas
• Increase the productivity of engineers by providing process development support, creating, and disseminating best practices
• Facilitate engagement with ANSYS development organization by sharing customer’s needs for feature enhancements and defect fixes
• Facilitate engagement with the broader ANSYS technical organization for advanced support and execution of service projects
• Help deploy ANSYS managed workflows (Custom GUIs, scripted I/O, etc.)
• Work as an integral member of the Sales and ACE teams to increase adoption of ANSYS tools

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+5, MS+3, or PhD+0
• Demonstrated use of relevant Ansys software or knowledge of other commercial CAE, CAD, EDA, PLM software packages
• Thorough understanding of low frequency electromagnetic devices and/or electrical system design and simulation, with a specialty in one or more of the following applications:
  • Power Electronics
  • Automotive electrical/electromechanical systems
  • Electric Machines/Motors and Drives
  • Actuators/Solenoids
  • Magnetic Sensors/Transformers
  • Wireless Power Transfer Devices
  • Fuel Injectors
  • 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 up to 10%

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Preferred education and years of professional experience in an engineering software environment: BS+8, MS+6, PhD+3
• 2 years of experience in application engineering, customer support, or consulting services type customer facing roles using engineering software
• Ability to interact effectively with senior business managers and C-level executives
• Experience with electrical, electromechanical, and/or electromagnetic simulation tools; ANSYS Maxwell, Q3D, or twin builder or simplorer experience preferred
• Experience in scripting languages is a plus