Staff R&D Geometry Engineer - Hybrid (Vancouver)

Synopsys, Inc.; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Synopsys, Inc. in Vancouver is seeking a Senior Computational Geometry Software Engineer to design, implement, and maintain meshing and geometry-processing components in production simulation tools.

You will translate complex geometric concepts into robust, high-performance C++ code and work across CAD, simulation, and analysis teams. You will optimize data structures, diagnose mesh quality issues, and contribute to architecture decisions that improve scalability and robustness of the geometry

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, computational geometry, or related field.
• 3+ years of hands-on software development experience, or advanced degree with relevant research/project work.
• Strong proficiency in C++ for building complex, performance-sensitive software systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain meshing and computational geometry algorithms in C++ for production simulation and analysis products.
• Build and optimize geometric data structures, surface and volume mesh generators, and geometric processing pipelines.
• Debug complex geometry-related issues across large codebases, diagnosing problems in mesh quality, numerical robustness, and algorithm correctness.
• Translate mathematical and geometric concepts into efficient, maintainable, production-quality software.
• Collaborate with R&D engineers across simulation, CAD, and analysis teams to align meshing capabilities with evolving product needs.
• Improve performance, scalability, and robustness of existing meshing and geometry-processing components.
• Contribute to architecture decisions that affect how geometric data flows through Synopsys simulation tools.

Skills

C++

Data structures

Algorithms

OOP

Debugging

Performance

Independent work

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/Math/Computational Geometry

Master's or PhD preferred

Tools

Meshing tools

CAD development

Geometric algorithms

Job description

Synopsys, Inc. in Vancouver is seeking a Senior Computational Geometry Software Engineer to design, implement, and maintain meshing and geometry-processing components in production simulation tools.

You will translate complex geometric concepts into robust, high-performance C++ code and work across CAD, simulation, and analysis teams. You will optimize data structures, diagnose mesh quality issues, and contribute to architecture decisions that improve scalability and robustness of the geometry