# R&D Engineering , Sr Engineer - 18292

**Company**: Synopsys
**Location**: Livermore, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $101000-$151000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: SNPS
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2303478

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## Description

The R&D Engineer II contributes to the development of LS-DYNA and related software products.

In this role, the R&D Engineer II will collaborate with a team of expert professionals to understand customer requirements and accomplish development objectives.

To be considered for this position, successful candidates must have an in-depth understanding of finite element method and related computational mechanics principles, strong programming skills, adequate academic or industrial experience in the related fields, and ability to work efficiently in a collaborative team environment.

**Key Duties and Responsibilities**

- Performs moderately complex development activities, including the design, implementation, maintenance, testing, and documentation of software modules and sub-systems

- Understands and employs best practices

- Performs moderately complex bug verification, release testing, and beta support for assigned products

- Researches problems discovered by QA or product support and develops solutions

- Understands the marketing requirements for a product, including target environment, performance criteria, and competitive issues

- Works under the general supervision of a development manager

**Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience**

- Bachelor’s Degree with 2 years of professional experience, or Master’s Degree in Aerospace, Biomechanical, Mechanical Engineering, or other natural science discipline

- Working experience with technical software development proven by academic, research, or industry projects

- Good understanding and skills in programming

**Preferred Qualifications and Skills**

- Master’s Degree or PhD Preferred

- Technical knowledge and experience with finite element simulation (e.g., LS-DYNA, Ansys), and CAD modeling

- Background in computational solid mechanics, numerical methods, and preferably on high-performance computing on C/GPUs

- Knowledge of fluid mechanics, electromagnetics, computational geometry, or computer graphics is an advantage but not a must

- Experience with Fortran or C

- Good communication and interpersonal skills

- Ability to learn quickly and to collaborate with others in a geographically distributed team

**Benefits**

- Comprehensive medical and healthcare plans that work for you and your family

- Time away: ETO and FTO Programs

- Family support: Maternity and paternity leave, parenting resources, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and more

- ESPP: Purchase Synopsys common stock at a 15% discount, with a 24-month look-back

- Retirement plans: Save for your future with our retirement plans that vary by region and country

## Skills

### Required
- finite element method
- computational mechanics
- programming
- software development

### Nice to have
- LS-DYNA
- Ansys
- CAD modeling
- Fortran
- C

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