Senior FEA Engineer — Contact Mechanics & HPC

Siemens Digital Industries Software; Burlington (IL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 233,000; Full time

Job summary

Siemens Digital Industries Software is seeking an expert in computational contact mechanics to develop production FEA solutions within our PLM software. You will enhance contact and constraint capabilities in implicit nonlinear and linear analyses for Simcenter Optistruct, driving robustness and usability.

Join an experienced team and contribute to development, QA and documentation. You will design algorithms, translate customer requirements to PDE/ODE, and collaborate across engineering

Qualifications

• PhD in Applied and/or Computational Mechanics, or Applied Mathematics, or Mechanical, Aerospace, Civil, or Bio/Biomedical Engineering, with a focus on theoretical and computational aspects of development for contact mechanics of structures and relevant multiphysics.
• Proven hands‑on experiences in finite element development for large‑deformation contact mechanics for implicit nonlinear structural FEA.
• Demonstrated knowledge in continuum mechanics and FEA, and ability to:
• Design and implement algorithms/data structures for computational contact mechanics
• Contribute in the value chain from engineering problem statement, through PDE formulation, weak form, residual, linearization, geometrical search, robustness and parallelization.
• Develop software programs in Fortran/C++/C
• Planning and Communication abilities:
• Excellent oral and written English communication skills
• Work collaboratively in an agile team by defining and planning the work of development, QA and Application engineers
• Communicate a clear understanding of the technology to other teams and customers
• HPC (High Performance Computing) experience in shared and distributed memory parallelization.
• Travel: 5%

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deploy finite element capabilities, and libraries for consumption in Simcenter Optistruct.
• Work with Development Manager and Product Managers to understand customer requirements related to contact and constraint, and translate them to PDE, ODE (Partial and Ordinary Differential Equations), algebraic equations, data structure and algorithms with an emphasis on accuracy, robustness, performance scalability and architecture.
• Work with QA, Technical Support and Technical Documentation groups to verify implementation, develop examples, and documentation.

Skills

Fortran/C/C++

English communication

Agile teamwork

HPC parallelization

Vectorization/GPU programming

Education

PhD in Applied/Computational Mechanics

Job description

Siemens Digital Industries Software is seeking an expert in computational contact mechanics to develop production FEA solutions within our PLM software. You will enhance contact and constraint capabilities in implicit nonlinear and linear analyses for Simcenter Optistruct, driving robustness and usability.

Join an experienced team and contribute to development, QA and documentation. You will design algorithms, translate customer requirements to PDE/ODE, and collaborate across engineering