Senior R&D Engineer (Remote – Canada)
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Date: Jul 23, 2025
Location: Waterloo, ON, CA, N2J4G8
Company: Ansys
Requisition #: 17133
Ansys is now a part of Synopsys. Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) accelerates technology innovation from silicon to systems. Catalyzing the era of pervasive intelligence, we deliver design solutions, from electronic design automation to silicon IP, to system design and multiphysics simulation and analysis. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow. Learn more at
Summary / Role Purpose
The Senior R&D Engineer – Integration will collaborate with others to produce, extend, and maintain our next generation cloud simulation. In this role, the Senior R&D Engineer will use advanced technical and problem-solving skills to blend QA and DevOps-centric automation with cloud microservices software development. Working across QA and Development teams, the engineer will apply industry best practices to satisfy customer requirements, comply with company process standards, and accomplish development objectives.
This role can be done 100% remotely from any location within Canada.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
Participates in planning, architecture, and research
Performs complex development activities that may require extensive analysis in areas including cloud software/service deployment and distributed system maintenance/scaling
Employs best practices and helps to maintain them through technical reviews and mentoring
Investigates 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
Uses modern cloud automation best practices and tooling
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
Root cause investigation, automated deployment testing, production incident solving
Participates with on call rotation as alerts arise
Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience
BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 5 years’ experience, MS with 3 years’ experience, or PhD with 1 year experience
Commercial experience with software design and development methodologies
Container image definition and deployments
Python and/or Bash scripting
at least 1 CICD tool’s pipeline definition as code
at least 1 Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling ecosystem
Preferred Qualifications and Skills
Good communication and interpersonal skills
Excellent technical knowledge, particularly in platform engineering
Commercial experience with Java, Python and/or Go.
Experience with web development, aspect oriented programming, software configuration management, scripting languages, data structures and algorithms
Experience with github actions or other YAML-defined CICD tools
Experience with frameworks like Springboot or Fast Api
Experience with testing frameworks/packages like Junit, Mockito, pyfixtures, or locust
Understanding of what is under the hood of most modern frameworks (including websockets)
Experience with one or more industry standard Cloud Service Providers, including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
Experience delivering high-quality products in a large-scale commercial software development environment
Experience with Kubernetes and commercial public cloud services deployments
Understanding of customer requirements and tools used in this domain
Ability to work collaboratively in a geographically distributed team
Rewards and Benefits:
We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.
At Ansys, part of Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability.
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Company
ANSYS, Inc.
Location
Waterloo
Country
Canada
Salary
100.000
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