Professional Services Consulting, Staff Consultant

You are a customer-focused engineering professional who combines deep expertise in structural mechanics, finite element analysis, and simulation automation with the communication and consulting skills to solve complex customer challenges.

As a Staff Consultant in Professional Services Consulting, you will lead customer-facing consulting engagements, develop Statements of Work and services proposals, run workshops and technical sessions with customer engineering teams, troubleshoot complex technical issues, and partner with Sales, Product, and Marketing teams to translate customer feedback into actionable product insights and service offerings.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading customer-facing consulting engagements from scoping through delivery, owning the technical strategy and execution for simulation workflow
• Developing Statements of Work and services proposals that reflect real customer needs with clear strategy and technical scope
• Running workshops and technical sessions with customer engineering teams to diagnose workflow gaps, build best practices, and define a future-state vision using Synopsys simulation and analysis tools
• Troubleshooting complex technical issues across multi-physics simulation environments, working hands-on to resolve blockers that impact customer timelines and adoption
• Partnering with Sales, Product, and Marketing teams to translate customer feedback into actionable product insights and service offerings that address real market gaps
• Building trusted advisor relationships with customer stakeholders, serving as the technical voice that bridges engineering teams and business decision-makers
• Mentoring junior consultants and contributing to the development of repeatable methodologies, frameworks, and enablement materials that scale across the consulting organization

The impact you will have:

• Driving measurable improvements in customer simulation workflows, reducing time-to-insight and enabling faster product development cycles for customers building next-generation systems
• Increasing adoption and utilization of Synopsys tools within customer organizations by delivering engagements that prove value and build internal champions
• Shaping the roadmap for Synopsys Professional Services offerings by surfacing customer needs, technical gaps, and emerging use cases from the field
• Strengthening customer retention and expansion by delivering high-satisfaction consulting engagements that demonstrate clear ROI and deepen technical partnerships
• Building organizational capability within customer teams through workshops, mentoring, and knowledge transfer that outlasts the engagement itself
• Influencing product development priorities by bringing real-world customer feedback and use cases directly to Synopsys engineering and product teams

To succeed in this role, you will need:

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Physics, or a related technical discipline
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in engineering simulation, process optimization, or technical consulting roles working directly with customers or internal engineering teams
• Deep knowledge of nonlinear solids and structural mechanics, structural dynamics, finite element analysis and related numerical methods
• Hands-on experience with finite element analysis products (e.g., Ansys Mechanical, Ansys LS-Dyna, Abaqus, NASTRAN) and associated modeling procedures
• Direct experience with Python-based workflow automation using product APIs and general Python libraries
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present technical concepts to both engineering teams and executive stakeholders, experience leading workshops or training sessions is a plus
• Willingness to travel up to 30% for customer engagements, workshops, and onsite consulting delivery