Senior R&D Engineer - Meshing (m/f/d)

General Information

Job Title Senior R&D Engineer - Meshing (m/f/d) Job ID 12866 Country Germany City Darmstadt Date Posted 01-Oct-2025 Job Category Engineering Job Subcategory Ansys Software Development Hire Type Employee Remote Eligible Yes

Descriptions & Requirements

Job Description and Requirements

Summary / Role Purpose 

The Senior R&D Engineer (m/f/d)  is responsible for the development of software products and supporting systems. In this role, the Senior R&D Engineer will use advanced technical and problem-solving skills to help the team tackle complex issues, satisfy customer requirements, and accomplish development objectives. 

• Key Duties and Responsibilities
•    Participates in planning, architecture, and research
•    Performs complex development activities that may require extensive analysis in areas including user experience, software design and solver research
•    Employs best practices and helps to maintain them through technical reviews and mentoring
•    Performs complex bug verification, release testing and beta support for assigned products. 
•    Researches problems discovered by QA or product support and develops solutions
•    Researches and understands the marketing requirements for a product, including target environment, performance criteria and competitive issues.
•     May work with strategic customers or proxies to assess needs and develop solutions
•    Works independently with minimal supervision and may take on some planning and mentoring responsibilities
•    May be responsible for managing interns or co-ops but typically does not have direct reports

Minimum Qualifications

• BS in Engineering, Computer Graphics, Computational Geometry or Applied Mathematics, with 5 years’ experience, or MS with 3 years' experience or PhD with 1 years' experience.
• Commercial experience with software design and development

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in developing high performance and memory efficient meshing and geometry algorithms
• Knowledge with Python and C/C++ 
• Keen interest in mesh generation
• Keen interest in programming and algorithm development. 
• Strong analytical skills.
• Background in computational geometry and discrete geometry processing
• Exposure to discrete mathematics
• Ability to overcome obstacles 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills 
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams and geographies

At Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability.