# Staff Engineer - Ansys Govt Initiatives

**Company**: Synopsys
**Location**: Exton, Pennsylvania
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $120000-$180000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: SNPS
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2303478

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to join the Systems Tool Kit (STK) development team within Ansys Government Initiatives, part of Synopsys.

As a Staff Engineer, you will design and develop core capabilities for STK, the flagship mission modeling and analysis software. You will build and maintain production-grade code in C++, C#, and Python that powers aerospace and defense mission planning from concept through operations.

Key responsibilities include:

- Designing and developing core capabilities for STK

- Building and maintaining production-grade code in C++, C#, and Python

- Participating in product-level architecture discussions and technical planning

- Leading technical reviews and mentoring engineers across the team

- Diagnosing and resolving complex bugs across the platform

- Owning features end-to-end, from initial requirements and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production maintenance

The impact you will have:

- Your architectural decisions will shape how aerospace and defense customers model and simulate missions that go to space

- The code you write will support mission-critical operations for customers who depend on STK for real launches and real spacecraft

- Your mentorship will raise the technical bar for the entire development team and accelerate how quickly engineers ship reliable features

Requirements:

- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with 5+ years of relevant experience, or Master's with 3+ years, or PhD with 1+ year

- Demonstrated expertise in object-oriented design, functional programming, algorithms, data structures, and debugging at a systems level

- Significant hands-on experience developing commercial applications in C++, C#, or Python

- Proven ability to write robust, readable, and efficient code that ships and stays in production

Rewards and Benefits: We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- C#
- Python
- object-oriented design
- functional programming
- algorithms
- data structures
- debugging

### Nice to have
- air operations
- aerospace engineering
- modeling and simulation software

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