Lead R&D Engineer (Cloud Platform Developer), Remote - Canada

Requisition #: 16049

Ansys is now a part of Synopsys. Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) accelerates technology innovation from silicon to systems. Catalyzing the era of pervasive intelligence, we deliver design solutions, from electronic design automation to silicon IP, to system design and multiphysics simulation and analysis. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow. Learn more at www.synopsys.com.

Summary / Role Purpose

The Lead R&D Engineer leads the design and development of key components comprising our next generation cloud simulation platform set to unlock a new breed of simulation opportunities In this role, the Lead R&D Engineer will use expertise to develop strategic plans, refine requirements and provide technical leadership in achieving development objectives. The Lead R&D Engineer will collaborate with Principal+ engineers to deliver vetted designs and coordinate self and peer/junior engineers to deliver production-grade software.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Leads planning, architecture, or research at a project level
• Coordinates product design and development activities requiring extensive analysis in areas such as user experience, software design and solver research. Acts as a technical reference within a group or product
• Develops and employs best practices and maintains them through technical reviews and mentoring
• Performs complex bug verification, release testing and beta support across multiple products. Research problems discovered by QA or product support and develops solutions, collaborating with the QA/support team
• Researches and understands the marketing requirements for products, including target environment, performance criteria and competitive issues. May work with strategic customers or proxies to assess needs and develop solutions
• Operates without direct supervision and may function as a team leader, project manager, or software architect
• May be responsible for line management of a small technical team but primary duties are of an individual technical nature

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 8 years' experience, MS with 6 years' experience, or PhD with 4 years' experience
• Significant commercial experience and proven production delivery in cloud-centric software design, microservice patterns, and development methodologies
• Proven track record of crafting robust and efficient code

• Excellent technical knowledge and commercial experience with web/cloud development, aspect oriented programming, software configuration management, scripting languages, data structures and algorithms
• Proven experience architecting and integrating complex software systems
• Comprehensive commercial experience with Java, Python and/or Go
• Experience leading projects and delivering high-quality products in a large-scale commercial software development environment
• Experience using industry-standard Project Tracking software, such as GitHub Projects, Atlassian Jira, and/or Microsoft ADO across multi-sprint, multi-team member software delivery.
• Ability to translate business needs into development plans
• Ability to overcome obstacles and drive projects to completion
• Experience with one or more industry standard Cloud Service Providers, including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and their leading managed services
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams and geographies, and to mentor junior developers