Senior CAE Applications Engineer

Apex Systems; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401K with company match

HSA and EAP benefits

ESPP and professional development

Job summary

Everforth Apex is seeking a Senior CAE Applications Engineer in Dearborn, MI, onsite. The role focuses on onboarding CAE applications in a secure cloud environment and evolving deployments into an integrated engineering application environment.

You will coordinate across technical teams, document current and target architectures, and manage licensing, testing, and transition to steady-state operations for CAE tools like MATLAB, Simulink, ANSA, LS-DYNA, and LS-PREPOST.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, CS, IT or related field.
• 7+ years installing/supporting CAE tools (MATLAB/Simulink/ANSA/LS-DYNA/LS-PREPOST).
• Experience with Azure infra, VMs, storage, identity, monitoring, cost management; licensing models.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate installation and support of CAE apps in virtual desktop and cloud environments.
• Document architectures, dependencies, and ownership for deployments.
• Monitor license consumption and cost reports; coordinate with finance and cloud teams.

Skills

Engineering experience

CAE applications understanding

Regulated/cloud security awareness

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/CS/IT

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

ANSA

LS-DYNA

LS-PREPOST

Azure

Windows desktop environments

Job description

## Job Description# Senior CAE Applications EngineerApply**Job#: 3057524****Job Description:****Job title: CAE Application Engineer****Location: Dearborn, MI (Onsite)****Job Type: 12 Months Contract****Pay Rate: $60/hr - $70/hr****Note: We are not able to consider C2C or third-party submissions****Role Overview**This position coordinates the installation, integration, operation, and ongoing support of engineering applications within a secure cloud environment. The initial focus centers on onboarding computer-aided engineering applications, including virtual-desktop-installed software and license-server infrastructure, with the long-term goal of evolving individual application deployments into an integrated engineering application environment. The role involves collaboration across technical service providers to ensure applications and infrastructure are securely deployed, appropriately licensed, and operationally supported.Key Responsibilities* Gather and document application requirements including binaries, infrastructure, dependencies, user populations, licensing models, authentication, and installation sequencing.* Coordinate with technical teams to install and configure computer-aided engineering applications in virtual desktop and cloud environments.* Identify applications requiring additional infrastructure such as license servers, databases, integrations, high-performance computing, and specialized virtual machine configurations.* Support testing, user validation, and the transition of deployments to steady-state operations.* Participate in application and solution architecture reviews, documenting current- and target-state architectures, dependencies, and operational ownership.* Support integration planning between computer-aided engineering tools, product lifecycle management platforms, requirements-management platforms, and data-transfer capabilities.* Maintain an inventory of cloud license types, stock-keeping units, assigned quantities, available capacity, and forecasted demand.* Monitor license consumption proactively to initiate procurement requests before capacity limits are reached.* Reconcile cloud environment charges to subscriptions, applications, environments, and users while preparing recurring cost reports and billing extracts.* Investigate unexpected usage, cost variances, and consumption trends with internal cloud, billing, and finance teams to maintain current cost forecasts.Required Qualifications**Education:** Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.**Experience:** Seven or more years of experience installing and supporting computer-aided engineering tools, such as MATLAB, Simulink, ANSA, LS-DYNA, or LS-PREPOST.**Technical Skills:** Proficiency with Microsoft Azure infrastructure and operations, including virtual machines, storage, identity, monitoring, backup, and cost management. Experience supporting Windows-based virtual desktop applications or comparable hosted desktop environments. Solid understanding of floating or concurrent software licensing models, license server technologies, and software asset management.Preferred Qualifications* Experience with regulated government cloud environments or secure hosting infrastructures.* Hands-on experience managing virtual desktops or cloud-based workstation environments.* Familiarity with cloud financial management, consumption reporting, chargeback processes, or cost allocation.* Understanding of security assessment, application onboarding, architecture-review, and change-management processes.* Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously, utilizing systems-integration experience spanning interfaces, authentication, and data flows. *Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.**Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click here for more details. By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Everforth Apex and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy at https://www.apexsystems.com/privacy-policy**Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.**Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.**If you require an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act to participate in an interview with a virtual recruiter or to use our website for a search or application, please contact our Benefits Department at [e-mail] or 804-523-8228. Please note that this contact information is strictly to be used for medical ADA accommodations and that no other inquiries will be answered.**UnitedHealthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Everforth Apex Systems.***Employee Type:** Contract**Location:** Dearborn, MI, US**Job Type:****Date Posted:** October 28, 2026**Pay Range:** $60 - $75 per hour