Lead Application Engineer

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

Job Description

Lead CFD Application Engineer

AUSTIN, TX or SAN JOSE, CA

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

The Lead CFD Application Engineer role offers an opportunity to join an exciting and highly motivated team, where your knowledge of CFD will be used to help our customers succeed in advanced CFD simulations in the aerospace, automotive, turbomachinery, and more. Using Cadence's suite of CFD tools you will develop creative and innovative solutions for customers, benchmark product capabilities for a wide range of applications and flow phenomena, advocate for best practices, and collaborate with members of the sales and product teams.

• Develop state of the art solutions for industry problems in Combustion, Heat Transfer, Thermo-aeroacoustics, and multi-phase applications utilizing Cadence's RANS and high-fidelity LES technologies.
• Perform customer benchmarks to validate Cadence's software products for industrial applications including correlation with published test data.
• Collaborate with Cadence's customers to develop and validate CFD workflows and solutions that meet or exceed their needs.
• Communicate and collaborate with the Sales, Research and Development, and Marketing teams on customer requirements and feedback from support engagements.
• Regularly participate in customer meetings to discuss benchmarks, technical support, and other related activities virtually or in-person as needed.
• Recognize and identify opportunities to proliferate Cadence products.
• Collaborate with Cadence R&D to test and validate new capabilities.
• Publish papers highlighting key industry solutions and advantages and generate associated marketing collateral.
• Create technical presentations and reports documenting key findings and customer feedback.
• Create knowledge collateral and documentation related to customer education including articles, videos, and technical presentations.
• Provide technical support to Cadence customers for various applications.
• Deliver customer and internal training classes virtually or in-person as needed.

• Education: MS + 4 years of experience or Ph.D. in aerospace, mechanical, or equivalent with a specialization in Combustion.
• Languages: Fluent in English.
• Communication skills: Excellent presentation skills, ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and via email.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Combustion Modeling, Finite Rate Chemistry, LES, Thermo-acoustics, Spray Modeling, Surface Chemistry, Multi-phase applications.
• Product Expertise: Experience with Cadence CFD tools (Fidelity CharLES, Fidelity, Fidelity Pointwise) is a plus .
• Experience in scripting languages like Python and Tcl.
• Customer service oriented with strong problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail with the ability to organize and prioritize tasks.
• Ability to appropriately define and manage technical projects and meet success criteria within prescribed timelines.
• Team player with a positive attitude, willingness to offer and execute ideas and solutions to enhance processes.
• Prepared to travel and work at customer sites.

• A current authorization to work in the U.S. is required.