Application Engineer II

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 expert in Ansys products, you will use advanced-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 advance your knowledge, experience and business impact.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

-Lead/Assist in coordinating and executing all technical activities throughout the sales opportunity lifecycle such as technical discovery, product presentations, demonstrations and evaluations

-As a product expert with one or more Ansys products, 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

-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

-Support Ansys field and digital marketing

-Contribute to consulting services, conduct introductory and/or intermediate training classes Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience

-Required education and degree type: MS in Mechanical Engineering or related field

-Required minimum years of professional experience in an engineering software environment: 3 years after MS

-Education and/or industrial experience related to fluid mechanics and computational fluid dynamics

-Demonstrated use of relevant Ansys software or knowledge of other commercial CAE, CAD, EDA, PLM software packages

-Experience with or specialization in Electronics/Semiconductor manufacturing industry segment

-Logical problem-solving, strong interpersonal and communication skills, fluent in writing and speaking English

-Experience programming in Fluent UDF, Python or other programming languages

-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 25% of time

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

-Preferred education and years of professional experience in an engineering software environment: MS+3, or PhD+0

-Experience with Ansys Fluent, Ansys Icepak, and/or Ansys Mechanical a plus

-Experience with application of CFD simulation for package, board, system level modeling is a plus

-Experience with Multiphysics (e.g., FSI, Thermo-Mechanical) aspects of semiconductor manufacturing is a plus

-Experience with multiphase flow of electronics design/semiconductor manufacturing is a plus

-Experience with DEM simulation of electronics design/semiconductor manufacturing is a plus

-Experience programming in Fluent UDF or PyAnsys a plus

-Ability to travel domestically up to 50% of time