Company: Ansys
Location: Waterloo, ON – Vancouver, BC
Expected salary:
Job date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:45:47 GMT
Job description: Requisition #: 16059Our Mission: Powering Innovation That Drives Human AdvancementWhen visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys.Innovate With Ansys, Power Your Career.SUMMARYThe R&D Engineer II will be responsible for creating intuitive, user-friendly, and visually compelling designs for Ansys products and services, specifically focused on Ansys Thermal Desktop. This is an advanced role ideal for a passionate designer with experience in user-centered design, usability, and front-end development. This engineer will also work with the development team to enhance and develop a Python based API for Thermal Desktop.You will collaborate with a team of developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to implement UX designs, API development, defined workflows, and expose key application logic, algorithms, and controls within the Ansys Design Language toolkit and framework. The goal is to provide a scalable, feature-rich user experience for the Thermal Desktop product, while ensuring high usability for engineers and simulation experts.RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work closely with software developers to design, implement, and debug the user interface (UI) for engineering simulation features.
- Develop an Application Programming Interface for Thermal Desktop in Python
- Continue support of C# based API
- Assess production code for defects and enhance UI performance based on user feedback and testing.
- Contribute to and maintain a consistent design system across all products to ensure uniformity and efficiency
- Identify, prioritize, and address UX-focused software challenges, proposing effective solutions and collaborating with teams to implement them.
- Present and justify design decisions clearly to stakeholders, ensuring alignment with business goals and user needs.
- Leverage experience with modeling and simulation software, particularly Ansys-type products, to design optimal workflows and user interactions.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or UX/User Interface
- 2-3 years of UI/UX design experience with a strong portfolio demonstrating design process, problem-solving, and high-quality UI work..
- 2+ years of experience in C++, C#/.NET, and Python with broad and deep understanding of the languages
- Experience in the full development cycle for a software product, from ideation to shipment
- Solid understanding of front-end technologies, UI patterns, and design trends.
- Is detail-oriented and utilizes highly developed organizational skills including the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines
- Understanding of the software development process and ability to communicate well with software development teams
- Previous coding experience
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to think critically and creatively to address design challenges.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, communicate ideas succinctly, and present design solutions.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with Modeling and Simulation Applications: Familiarity with tools and technologies for UI implementation in modeling and simulation environments, specifically in engineering and scientific software.
- Design System Experience: Experience contributing to and leveraging design systems to ensure consistency and scalability across multiple products.
- Rapid Prototyping: Ability to prototype rapidly using various tools (e.g., Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, etc.) and adapt to changing design needs.
- Customer-Focused Mindset: Ability to identify pain points in user workflows and design intuitive solutions that improve user satisfaction.
- Experience with inter-process communication frameworks: experience designing gRPC clients and servers is a plus.
At Ansys, we know that changing the world takes vision, skill, and each other. We fuel new ideas, build relationships, and help each other realize our greatest potential. We are ONE Ansys. We operate on three key components: the commitments to our stakeholders, the behaviors of how we work together, and the actions of how we deliver results. Together as ONE Ansys, we are powering innovation that drives human advancement.Our Commitments:
- Amaze with innovative products and solutions
- Make our customers incredibly successful
- Act with integrity
- Ensure employees thrive and shareholders prosper
Our Values:
- Adaptability: Be open, welcome what’s next
- Courage: Be courageous, move forward passionately
- Generosity: Be generous, share, listen, serve
- Authenticity: Be you, make us stronger
Our Actions:
- We commit to audacious goals
- We work seamlessly as a team
- We demonstrate mastery
- We deliver outstanding results
INCLUSION IS AT OUR CORE
We believe diverse thinking leads to better outcomes. We are committed to creating and nurturing a workplace that fuels this by welcoming people, no matter their background, identity, or experience, to a workplace where they are valued and where diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging thrive.WELCOME WHAT’S NEXT IN YOUR CAREER AT ANSYSAt Ansys, you will find yourself among the sharpest minds and most visionary leaders across the globe. Collectively we strive to change the world with innovative technology and transformational solutions. With a prestigious reputation in working with 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. Our team is passionate about pushing the limits of world-class simulation technology, empowering our customers to turn their design concepts into successful, innovative products faster and at a lower cost.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.” And it’s about the melding of disciplined intellect with strategic direction and results that have, can, and do impact real people in real ways. All this is forged within a working environment built on respect, autonomy, and ethics.CREATING A PLACE WE’RE PROUD TO BE
Ansys is an S&P 500 company and a member of the NASDAQ-100. We are proud to have been recognized for the following more recent awards, although our list goes on: Newsweek’s Most Loved Workplace globally and in the U.S., Gold Stevie Award Winner, America’s Most Responsible Companies, Fast Company World Changing Ideas, Great Place to Work Certified (Belgium, China, Greece, France, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and U.K.).For more information, please visit us at www.ansys.comAnsys 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.
