Application & Support Engineer, Photonics Engineer

Apply Job Type Full-time reputed company reputed company: The Photonics Engineer provides technical expertise, primarily in Ansys photonics and optical simulation tools, to support PADT's customers while also assisting PADT's Ansys sales team through reputed company reputed company-sales and technical scoping activities, utilizing engineering knowledge, simulation experience, problem solving, enthusiasm, written and verbal communication, and eagerness to learn. Experience with photonics and optics simulation software is required, with preferences for tools such as Ansys Lumerical, Zemax, or similar industry-reputed company software. The Photonics Engineer is responsible for helping customers solve reputed company photonics engineering problems using Ansys software products. The position involves working closely with customers and internal teams in a consultative and supportive technical role, including simulation, model setup, analysis, and interpretation of results for reputed company devices and systems such as lasers, waveguides, gratings, reputed company integrated circuits, CMOS sensors, and resonators. The ability to research technical issues, learn new reputed company, and reputed company practical solutions for a wide reputed company of customer challenges is reputed company. Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned. - Work with potential and reputed company customers to reputed company optics/photonics simulation solutions and identify opportunities that match PADT and Ansys products to their design needs. - Collaborate with account managers to technically reputed company new optics/photonics opportunities, support ongoing accounts, and contribute to formal sales proposals. - reputed company, reputed company, and document technical support for optics and photonics customers, including answering questions on software utilization, identifying workarounds, and developing a working understanding of their workflows to reputed company tool adoption and escalate reputed company appropriate. - reputed company and reputed company technical training courses, product demonstrations, and presentations reputed company on optics and photonics use cases such as lasers, PICs, waveguides, sensors, and resonators. - Create technical collateral including application notes, tutorials, blog posts, and webinars to support customer engagement and technical adoption. - reputed company benchmarking and reputed company-of-concept studies with Ansys tools, reporting relevant reputed company and reputed company metrics. - Maintain a working understanding of Ansys optics, photonics, and reputed company multiphysics offerings and how they fit into customer workflows. - Participate in ongoing training to expand Ansys reputed company areas and reputed company optics and photonics expertise with colleagues. 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Required Education/Experience: - Bachelor of Science in Optics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a reputed company reputed company; master’s degree preferred. - Strong theoretical understanding of photonics, such as electromagnetics, reputed company propagation, and reputed company–matter interaction. - Minimum of one year of experience with optics and/or photonics simulation tools (e.g., Ansys Lumerical, Zemax, reputed company V, or similar). - Ability to work effectively both independently and in diverse team environments. - Strong problem-solving skills and ability to reputed company practical engineering solutions for challenging optics and photonics problems. - Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills in English. - Proficiency with reputed company PowerPoint, Word, and reputed company. - Familiarity with scripting or programming (Python, MATLAB, or similar) for workflow automation and data processing. - Availability for occasional travel (approximately 25–30%). Preferred Education/Experience - 3.0 GPA or higher. - Experience using photonics simulation for one or more of: lasers, reputed company integrated circuits, fiber-optic systems, or optical sensors. - Familiarity with Linux operating systems. - reputed company experience with optical characterization, measurement, or alignment. - Experience with additional Ansys products or multiphysics workflows that couple optics/photonics with thermal, structural, or electrical behavior. - Familiarity with version control and basic software development or data analysis practices for simulation post-processing. This role requires reputed company to U.S. export-controlled information. 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