Lead Application Engineer SCBU

General Information

Job Title Lead Application Engineer SCBU Job ID 12860 Country Japan City Tokyo Date Posted 01-Oct-2025 Job Category Ansys Sales Support Job Subcategory Ansys Application Engineering Hire Type Employee Remote Eligible Yes

Descriptions & Requirements

Job Description and Requirements

Company: Ansys

Ansys is the global leader in engineering simulation. We empower the world’s most innovative companies to deliver transformational products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software solutions, we help our customers solve the most complex design challenges and engineer products limited only by imagination. Whether you are a software developer, product engineer, sales team member, or part of our corporate team, at Ansys we know that by embracing what makes us each unique, we become collectively better.

SUMMARY
The Lead Application Engineer leads the deployment and support of software products and supporting systems. In this role, the Lead Application Engineer will use expertise to develop strategic technical campaigns, negotiate success criteria and provide refined requirements to drive exciting new product features to meet business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Develop competence in a product area and be recognized as a regional expert
• Lead technical campaigns to successful completion
• Work independently and as a member of a team and motivate others
• Develop and deliver training/education to customers
• Be a mentor for junior levels
• Negotiate success criteria with customers for critical technical campaigns
• Provide neat, accurate, and thorough work in a timely manner
• Complete assignments without specific directions, recognize problems, and apply or suggest viable solutions

Minimum Qualifications

• BS in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 8 years’ experience, MS with 6 years’ experience, or PhD with 3 years’ experience
• Excellent technical knowledge and commercial experience with EDA/CAD software, analog mixed-signal circuit design knowledge or ASIC design flows, and conceptual knowledge of a specific domain (e.g. power integrity, signal integrity, ESD, 3DIC Multiphysics, etc.)
• Solid TCL, Python programming skills       

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent technical knowledge and commercial experience with
• Experience leading projects and delivering high-quality support for a large-scale commercial software
• Ability to translate business needs into development plans
• Ability to overcome obstacles and drive projects to completion
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams and geographies, and to mentor junior engineers 
• ALIGNING YOUR VALUES TO OUR SOLUTIONS
• At Ansys, our diverse, collaborative teams give us the strength and insight to solve the world’s most challenging engineering problems. Our ONE Ansys culture has at its core:
• Customer Focus
• Results and Accountability
• Innovation
• Transparency and Integrity
• Mastery
• Inclusiveness
• Sense of Urgency
• Collaboration and Teamwork

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.