Consulting Engineer - FEA

Description

• Analyze customer technical needs, infrastructure, and workflows to ensure an application fit and develop recommendations for both immediate and long-term simulation success.
• Occasionally assist with technical support overflow and follow-up to ensure customer satisfaction and retention.
• Provide customized Ansys training and mentoring sessions that help customers improve simulation proficiency, increase productivity, and achieve early success with new tools.
• Articulate the value of Ansys technology and Rand Simulation’s services—including training, mentoring, and consulting—in helping customers achieve their design and productivity goals.
• Act as the technical lead on customer engagements—including enablement programs, onboarding sessions, mentoring, and consulting projects—with responsibility for running simulations, reviewing designs, interpreting results, and recommending improvements based on findings and experience.
• Stay up to date with Ansys platforms and expand knowledge through ongoing training and self-guided learning to broaden Rand Simulation’s enablement and consulting capabilities.
• Partner with RandSim marketing to generate blog posts, white papers, webinars, and other content related to key initiatives for your team and customers.
• Collaborate closely with Rand Simulation’s sales team to provide technical guidance, credibility, and subject-matter expertise in both pre-sales and post-sales engagements.

Requirements

• Logical problem-solving approach and ability to clearly communicate both technical and business value to customers.
• Experience with multiphysics, fatigue, and explicit dynamics strongly desired
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to lead customer discussions, trainings, and webinars with confidence.
• Willingness to travel up to 10%.
• Proven experience with multiple structural analysis methods (rigid body dynamics, transient analyses, nonlinear static/transient, modal, linear dynamics, etc.)
• LS-DYNA experience strongly desired
• Comfort working directly with clients in both enablement and project contexts, articulating recommendations and guiding simulation strategy.
• Extensive proficiency in 3D CAD systems (Inventor and/or SolidWorks preferred)
• Experience using Altair, FEMAP/NX, MSC/PATRAN, Autodesk Nastran, Simulation Mechanical/Algor, COMSOL, Abaqus, Simulia, or similar codes a plus
• Self-starter with high motivation, organization, and the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• M.S./B.S./B.A. in Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Physics, or similar discipline
• Experience with MAPDL and/or Python coding strongly desired
• Experience with Ansys Motion, nCode, ACP, or other structural toolsets is a plus
• 4+ years of mechanical or structural engineering/design experience
• Highly developed learning and thinking ability with direct client-facing experience.
• 4+ years of FEA/structural analysis experience with Ansys Mechanical
• Knowledge of underlying FEA principles such as linear algebra, partial differential equations, etc.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance