Senior SPDM Application Engineer

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Analyze customers’ business and technical needs requirements, and the state of a customer’s current infrastructure, operations, and engineering workflows
• Consult our customers on process design and process optimization
• Derive the technical specifications in collaboration with other business process analysts, subject matter experts, peers and Ansys Product Management
• Create elegant and useful solutions to solve complex business problems by working across various teams and understanding the needs of customers
• Coordinate and execute all technical activities (design, develop, deploy) throughout the sales opportunity such as customer meetings and product presentations, demonstrations and evaluations
• Utilize the components of the Ansys platform as the foundation for building complete solutions that transform customer product development processes to facilitate more engineering in the digital domain by leveraging simulation
• Articulate the Ansys value proposition, which may encompass its entire suite of products (mechanical, fluid, electrical, electronics, optical, systems, software...).
• Create training materials and assist in customers and partners training
• Create/assist in generating SoWs
• Create help manuals and deployment guides
• Participate in internal corporate initiatives to further enhance the solution suites, presales/sales enablement, and business growth
• Be a team player who can collaborate effectively with all key ANSYS and customer stakeholders including sales, product development, project management, implementation engineers, customer end-users and IT leadership

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree, Master’s or other advanced degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field
• 5 years of working experience in an agile team within commercial software development
• Experience in one of the following environments:
  • Engineering Software – Ansys or Commercial CAE/CAD/EDA
  • Enterprise Systems – MBSE/PLM/PDM/ALM/ERP/TDM
• Subject matter expert in one or more relevant disciplines within Ansys’ business and is/will be sought out for advice by other Ansys engineers
• 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
• Communicate equally effectively at the executive level to discuss business requirements and value, as well as the engineering level to discuss technical requirements, capabilities, and benefits
• Ability to travel up to 25%

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Preferred education and years of professional experience in an engineering software environment: BS+8, MS+6, or PhD+3
• A minimum of 7 years of deep, broad, and demonstratable experience within IT infrastructures, such as the following:
  • Working technical knowledge of C# and .Net programming languages
  • Hands-on experience working in integrated development environments, including Microsoft Visual Studio.
  • Knowledge with database management such as MS SQL
  • Experience/Knowledge of Python
  • Proficiency in front-end programming: JavaScript, React, jQuery, HTML5,
  • Good understanding of web architecture, distributed systems and web APIs, such as REST APIs, SOAP and custom scripts
  • Experience with Web Server technologies, such as IIS, nginx.
  • Experience with DevOps/continuous integration and deployment
  • Practical knowledge of agile project management
  • Hands-on software troubleshooting experience
  • Experience in creating presentations supporting pre-sales activities