Lead Software Developer

Company: ANSYS
Location: San Jose
Posted on: March 28, 2020

Job Description:

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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Join the Research and Development team and create state of the art software for semiconductor analysis.
• Lead innovation in semiconductor design and manufacturing to enable smaller device architecture with higher performance and energy efficiency for powering the smart product revolution.
• Apply knowledge of the physics associated with shrinking geometries, especially in the emerging 3-D IC, FinFET and stacked-die architectures, to bring out design challenges related to power and reliability, affecting design closure.
• Demonstrate expertise in the code and the team's software development processes.
• Help to continuously improve both software and processes.
• Lead complex projects involving multiple developers in one or more areas of the product.
• Evaluate multiple approaches to technical problems and recommend one solution after considering limitations and challenges.
• Build a deep understanding of the domain and the how the product fits into the user's design flow.
• Communicate clearly with others regarding project status and risks, and to ensure that work is aligned with the business unit strategy.
• Serve as a role model for excellent software skills and a source of domain expertise within the business unit.
• Diagnose and fix code problems.
• Deliver code that meets requirements on schedule.
• Ensure that code is efficient, scalable, maintainable, extensible, robust and easy to understand.
• Optimize code to improve tool run time and memory capacity.
• Create unit, regression and/or system-level tests to thoroughly validate new features or changes.
  
  MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical or Computer Engineering or Computer Science.
  • Seven (7) years of experience in a related position.
  • Work experience or academic coursework must have included:
    • Five (5) years of experience programming in C++;
    • experience with the Linux operating system;
    • data structures, algorithms, and debugging;
    • electronic design at register-transfer and gate level;
    • and technical leadership experience, including delivery of technical projects involving multiple engineers.
      
      
      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.
        
        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.
        
        For more information, please visit us at www.ansys.com
        
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        Nearest Major Market: San Jose
        Nearest Secondary Market: Palo Alto
        
        

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