RandD Engineer II

Summary

The Meshing Development Unit (MDU) is seeking a R&D Engineer II, to maintain and further develop core data structures, and software infrastructure supporting development of high performance, and memory efficient code for mesh generation and geometry processing. The software development environment consists of a unified framework allowing specialization for different target architectures such as CPU’s and GPU’s. This role requires a strong interest in developing software infrastructure for high performance computing (HPC). It is desirable with an interest in computational geometry and geometry processing. Having had exposure to operating systems, hardware architecture, and compilers are highly desirable. The background and experience in combination with the interest of the successful applicant will be considered for work assignments. This developer can expect to be engaged in all stages of the development cycle from capability planning to research and software implementation.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of high performance and memory efficient software products for mesh generation and geometry processing.
• Collaborate with a team of expert professionals to understand customer requirements and accomplish development objectives.
• Performs software development activities, including design, implementation, maintenance, testing and documentation.
• Understand and employ best practices.
• Investigate problems discovered by the quality assurance or product support teams and develop solutions.
• Understands market requirements, including target environment, performance criteria and competitive issues.
  
  

• BS in Computer Graphics, Computer Sciences, Computational Geometry, Mathematics or Engineering, with 2 years’ experience, or MS
• Background, commercial or educational, in high performace computing (HPC), e.g., tooling, data structures, large data sets, meshing and computer graphics,
• Working knowledge of software development
• Knowledge with Python and C/C++
  
  

• Interest in mesh generation and geometry processing
• Keen interest in programming and algorithm development.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to overcome obstacles
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams and geographies