Senior Application Engineer

Ansys is the global leader in engineering simulation, helping the world's most innovative companies deliver radically better products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software, Ansys helps companies solve the most complex design challenges and engineer products limited only by imagination.

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 in Computational Fluid Dynamics, 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

• 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/Aerospace Engineering or related field
• Required minimum years of professional experience in an engineering software environment: BS+5, MS+3, or PhD+0
• Subject matter expert in one or more relevant disciplines within Ansys' business and is/will be sought out for advice by other Ansys engineers
• Broad understanding of automotive / consumer product goods (CPG) / pharma / high-tech industries related CFD applications involving multiphase flows
• Strong fundamentals in multiphase flows, turbulence, mass & heat transfer phenomena
• 2 years of experience with modeling and simulation of automotive or process industry related applications using a commercial Computational Fluid -Dynamics (CFD) software package such as ANSYS FLUENT or ANSYS CFX
• 2 years of experience in CFD preprocessing of complex CAD models (geometry clean up and mesh generation)
• 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 25% of time

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Preferred education and years of professional experience in an engineering software environment: BS+8, MS+6, or PhD+3
• 2 years of experience in application engineering, customer support, or consulting services type customer facing roles using engineering software
• 1+ yrs. experience with CFD modeling of automotive applications such as HVAC, exhaust treatment, rainwater management, underhood thermal management, powertrain and/or process industry applications such as mixing, particulate flows
• Proficiency in C/C++ and Python
• Knowledge of the Ansys Fluent User Defined Functions (UDF) framework
• Experience using commercial post-processing tools such as Ansys Ensight
• Experience with Process Integration and Design Optimization (PIDO)
• Ability to interact effectively with senior business managers and C-level executives
• Ability to travel domestically up to 50% of time

CULTURE AND VALUES
Culture and values are incredibly important to Ansys. They inform us of who we are, of how we act. Values aren't posters hanging on a wall or about trite or glib slogans. They aren't about rules and regulations. They can't just be handed down the organization. They are shared beliefs - guideposts that we all follow when we're facing a challenge or a decision. Our values tell us how we live our lives; how we approach our jobs. Our values are crucial for fostering a culture of winning for our company:

• Customer focus
• Results and Accountability
• Innovation
• Transparency and Integrity
• Mastery
• Inclusiveness
• Sense of urgency
• Collaboration and Teamwork

WORKING AT ANSYS
At Ansys, you will find yourself among the sharpest minds and most visionary of leaders, collectively aiming to change the world with innovative technology and remarkable solutions. With the prestigious reputation in servicing well-known, world-class companies, standards at Ansys are high, met by those willing to rise to the occasion and meet those challenges head-on. Because at Ansys, it's about the learning, the discovery and the collaboration. It's about the "what's next" as much as the "mission accomplished". It's about the melding of disciplined intellect with strategic direction and results that have, can and will impact real people in real ways, forged within a working environment built on respect, autonomy and ethics.

At Ansys, you will find yourself among those eager to drive the world towards the next best thing with hands planted firmly on the wheel.
Our team is passionate about pushing the limits of world-class simulation technology so our customers can turn their design concepts into successful, innovative products faster and at lower cost. As a measure of our success in attaining these goals, Ansys has been recognized as one of the world's most innovative companies by prestigious publications such as Bloomberg Businessweek and FORTUNE magazines.

Ansys is an S&P 500 company and a component of the NASDAQ-100.

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Ansys is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

Ansys does not accept unsolicited referrals for vacancies, and any unsolicited referral will become the property of Ansys. Upon hire, no fee will be owed to the agency, person, or entity.

Nearest Major Market: Minneapolis