Senior R&D Engineer (Post-Processing)
SUMMARY
The Senior R&D Engineer is responsible for the development of software products and supporting systems. In this role, the Senior R&D Engineer will use advanced technical and problem-solving skills to help the team tackle complex issues, satisfy customer requirements, and accomplish development objectives.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Participates in planning, architecture, and research
Performs complex development activities that may require extensive analysis in areas including user experience, software design and solver research
Employs best practices and helps to maintain them through technical reviews and mentoring
Performs complex bug verification, release testing and beta support for assigned products. Researches problems discovered by QA or product support and develops solutions
Researches and understands the marketing requirements for a product, including target environment, performance criteria and competitive issues. May work with strategic customers or proxies to assess needs and develop solutions
Works independently with minimal supervision and may take on some planning and mentoring responsibilities
May be responsible for managing interns or co-ops but typically does not have direct reports
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 5 years’ experience, MS with 3 years’ experience, or PhD with 1 year experience
Commercial experience with design, implementation, testing and maintaining complex software products using object-oriented software concepts in C++ (MS Visual Studio), and applicable design patterns.
Excellent technical knowledge and commercial experience with scientific processing and visualization, high performance computation (e.g. MPI, GPU), FEA or similar computational techniques, scripting languages (Python, JS).
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Passion for crafting robust and efficient code
Experience delivering high-quality products in a large-scale commercial software development environment
Understanding of customer requirements and tools used in this domain
Good communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to work collaboratively in a geographically distributed team