Summary / Role Purpose

The Senior R&D Engineer is responsible for the development of software products and supporting systems. In this role, the Senior R&D Engineer will use advanced technical and problem-solving skills to help the team tackle complex issues, satisfy customer requirements, and accomplish development objectives.  

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Participates in planning, architecture, and research
• Performs complex development activities that may require extensive analysis in areas including user experience, software design and solver research
• Employs best practices and helps to maintain them through technical reviews and mentoring
• Performs complex bug verification, release testing and beta support for assigned products. Research 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
• 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

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

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Excellent technical knowledge and commercial experience with C++, numerical analysis, web development, object-oriented design, software configuration management, scripting languages, data structures and algorithms 
• Passion for crafting robust and efficient code 
• Experience delivering high-quality products in a large-scale commercial software development environment 
• Understanding of customer requirements and tools used in this domain 
• Good communication and interpersonal skills 
• Ability to work collaboratively in a geographically distributed team