Senior RF/Antenna Application Engineer

Ansys - Beltsville, MD

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Beltsville, MD

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Join the Ansys Customer Excellence team as a Senior RF/Antenna Application Engineer, where you will partner with our customers to engineer what's ahead and solve their real-world engineering problems. This role involves deploying Ansys software in customer design workflows and contributing to the growth of Ansys' business. As a hands-on subject matter expert, you will leverage your expert-level engineering knowledge to provide technical pre-sales support, perform professional services, and translate customer requirements into innovative product features. You will work within multi-disciplinary teams to create pervasive simulation solutions, enhance your industry knowledge, and drive business impact. In this position, you will be responsible for coordinating and executing all technical activities throughout the sales opportunity lifecycle. This includes conducting technical discovery, negotiating technical success criteria, and delivering product presentations, demonstrations, and evaluations. You will interact with customers to understand their product design needs and engineering workflows, analyzing how to address their requirements using Ansys products and platforms. Your role will also involve creating differentiating simulation solutions using the Ansys platform and deploying these solutions within customers' design workflows. As you develop your competence as a subject matter expert, you will collaborate with Ansys product development teams to translate customer requirements into exciting new product features. You will test new releases of Ansys products on industrial problems and develop application best practices. Additionally, you will support Ansys field and digital marketing efforts, author conference presentations, and contribute to consulting services by conducting training classes. This position requires a strong educational background in Electrical Engineering or a related field, along with relevant professional experience in an engineering software environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead in coordinating and executing all technical activities throughout the sales opportunity lifecycle such as technical discovery, negotiate technical success criteria, product presentations, demonstrations and evaluations.
• Interact with customers to understand their product design needs and engineering design workflows; analyze how to address customers' requirements using Ansys products and platform, articulate Ansys' value proposition.
• Assist in creating differentiating simulation solutions using the Ansys platform and products; deploy the solutions within customers' design workflows.
• Develop competence as a subject matter expert and industry expert.
• Collaborate with the Ansys product development teams to translate customer requirements into exciting new product features; test new releases of Ansys products on industrial problems, develop application best practices.
• Support Ansys field and digital marketing, author conference presentations.
• Contribute to consulting services, conduct introductory and/or intermediate training classes.

Requirements

• BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• Minimum years of professional experience in an engineering software environment: BS+5, MS+3, or PhD+0.
• Demonstrated use of relevant Ansys software or knowledge of other commercial CAE, CAD, EDA, PLM software packages.
• Experience with antenna applications or RF component design; and coupled RF-thermal simulations.
• Design knowledge of antennas, RF components, matching networks, and installed antenna performance.
• Demonstrated working knowledge and previous usage of ANSYS HFSS, ANSYS SIwave, ANSYS Q3D Extractor or other simulation software involving real world, industry level applications.
• Knowledgeable with package, printed circuit boards and connector design processes and EDA Tools.
• Fundamental knowledge of high frequency, microwave and antenna concepts including S-parameters, wave propagation, antenna radiation patterns, scattering analysis, and component coupling/interference analysis.
• Logical problem-solving, strong interpersonal and communication skills, fluent in writing and speaking English.
• Strong organizational and time management skills, possesses a sense of urgency.
• Ability to travel domestically up to 50% of time.
• DoD TS/SCI clearance with polygraph required (or the ability and willingness to obtain them).

Nice-to-haves

• Preferred education and years of professional experience in an engineering software environment: BS+8, MS+6, or PhD+3.
• 2 years of experience in application engineering, customer support, or consulting services type customer facing roles using engineering software.
• Ability to interact effectively with senior business managers and C-level executives.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• 401k benefit for retirement savings plan
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development opportunities
• Employee discount programs
• Wellness programs