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This role is responsible for designing, developing, and guiding advanced meshing capabilities used in CAE preprocessing, model preparation, surface meshing, volume meshing, mesh quality improvement, sizing controls, and downstream simulation workflows. The successful candidate will act as a senior individual contributor and technical authority, partnering across engineering, architecture, QA, and product teams to deliver robust, scalable, and maintainable meshing solutions aligned with customer and product needs.\nKey Responsibilities\nArchitect, design, and develop advanced meshing capabilities for CAE products, ensuring robustness, scalability, performance, and maintainability.\nProvide technical leadership for surface meshing, volume meshing, mesh quality improvement, sizing controls, boundary layer concepts, mesh cleanup, and CAE preprocessing workflows.\nServe as a senior technical authority for design reviews, feasibility analysis, risk assessment, debugging, performance optimization, and long-term architecture decisions.\nCollaborate with product management, architecture, QA, program management, and engineering teams to translate customer workflow needs into actionable technical solutions.\nGuide and mentor engineers on meshing algorithms, design patterns, code quality, testing strategy, and engineering best practices.\nInvestigate complex meshing defects, mesh quality problems, performance bottlenecks, and customer-reported workflow issues, driving them to resolution.\nContribute to technical roadmaps and communicate design tradeoffs, technical risks, and implementation plans clearly to stakeholders and leadership.\nRequired Qualifications\nEducation\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Engineering, Computer-Aided Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related engineering discipline.\nExperience\n12+ years of software engineering experience delivering commercial or enterprise engineering software, preferably in CAE, meshing, simulation, or scientific computing domains.\nDeep expertise in meshing algorithms, surface mesh generation, volume mesh generation, mesh quality metrics, sizing controls, mesh cleanup, and mesh improvement workflows.\nStrong background in C++ software development for large-scale engineering, scientific, CAE, or meshing-intensive applications.\nExperience designing and implementing robust meshing algorithms and production-quality software components used in model preparation and CAE preprocessing workflows.\nWorking knowledge of CAE workflows including model preparation, geometry handoff, solver readiness, simulation preprocessing, and customer-driven usability requirements.\nExperience with CAD/CAE products or meshing platforms such as MSC Apex, Patran, ANSA, HyperMesh, SimLab, ICEM CFD, Pointwise, Gmsh, or equivalent technologies.\nAbility to guide architecture and implementation decisions while balancing innovation, quality, performance, robustness, maintainability, and delivery commitments.\nFamiliarity with scripting, automation, build systems, debugging tools, profiling tools, and engineering productivity practices; Python experience is preferred.\nExperience mentoring engineers, reviewing complex designs, and influencing technical direction across teams without direct people-management responsibility.\nPractical experience using AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar tools to improve coding productivity, code review efficiency, documentation, and engineering workflows.\nTechnical Skills\nStrong proficiency in C++ for high-performance meshing, CAE, simulation, or scientific computing applications.\nDeep understanding of meshing algorithms, including triangulation, quadrilateral meshing, tetrahedral meshing, hexahedral meshing concepts, surface discretization, volume discretization, and mesh optimization.\nHands-on experience with mesh quality metrics, element validity, aspect ratio, skewness, warpage, Jacobian checks, smoothing, refinement, coarsening, and repair workflows.\nExperience working with geometry-to-mesh workflows, boundary representation inputs, geometry cleanup dependencies, feature preservation, defeaturing impacts, and mesh associativity.\nAbility to design robust meshing APIs, reusable software components, scalable mesh data structures, and algorithms for large assemblies and complex CAE models.\nStrong debugging and diagnostic skills for resolving mesh generation failures, poor-quality elements, numerical robustness issues, and customer workflow failures.\nExperience optimizing meshing operations for performance, memory usage, scalability, and responsiveness in large models and automated preprocessing workflows.\nFamiliarity with automated testing strategies for meshing algorithms, including regression tests, mesh quality validation, stress cases, benchmark models, and customer model validation.\nWorking knowledge of Python or scripting tools for automation, diagnostics, workflow prototyping, mesh validation, and engineering productivity.\nSoft Skills\nStrong communication and collaboration skills.\nProblem-solving and analytical thinking.\nAbility to work independently and in a team environment.\n• Strong organizational and time-management skills.N/A\nWe’re doing work that matters. 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