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