Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide significant technical contributions to products through feasibility, prototyping and implementation of algorithms and core solver technologies.
- Participates in planning, architecture, and research
- Performs complex development activities that may require extensive analysis in areas including physics algorithms, numerical methods, software design and solver research
- Employs best practices and helps to maintain them through technical reviews and mentoring
- Performs complex bug verification, release testing and beta support for assigned products. Research problems discovered by QA or product support and develops solutions
- Researches and understands the marketing requirements for a product, including target environment, performance criteria and competitive issues. May work with strategic customers or proxies to assess needs and develop solutions
- Works independently with minimal supervision and may take on some planning and mentoring responsibilities
- May be responsible for managing interns or co-ops but typically does not have direct reports
Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience
- BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 5 years’ experience, MS with 3 years’ experience, or PhD with 1 year experience
- Commercial experience with software design and development methodologies
- Experience with C or C++ with broad and deep understanding of the language
Preferred Qualifications and Skills
- Excellent technical knowledge and commercial experience with numerical analysis, web development, object-oriented design, software configuration management, scripting languages, data structures and algorithms
- Experience in the parasitic extraction of VLSI
- Passion for crafting robust and efficient code
- Experience delivering high-quality products in a large-scale commercial software development environment
- Understanding of customer requirements and tools used in this domain
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work collaboratively in a geographically distributed team