Lead Software Engineer (Postprocessing)

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.Position SummaryWe are seeking a Lead Software Engineer focused on CAE post-processing to help design, develop, and deliver capabilities for MSC Apex and related simulation result workflows. This role will contribute to solver result interpretation, result data management, contouring, XY plotting, animation, result probing, derived result calculations, reporting, validation, and scalable handling of large engineering simulation datasets. The successful candidate will work as an experienced individual contributor, partnering with engineering, QA, architecture, and product teams to deliver reliable, maintainable, and customer-focused post-processing solutions.Key Responsibilities• Design, develop, and maintain CAE post-processing capabilities for engineering simulation products, with focus on result accuracy, performance, robustness, usability, and maintainability.• Contribute to workflows for solver result reading, result case management, contour plots, XY plotting, animation, result probing, min/max extraction, derived result calculations, result comparison, and report generation.• Implement and enhance support for scalar, vector, tensor, transient, modal, frequency-domain, and load-step-based result data.• Participate in design reviews, feasibility analysis, debugging, performance tuning, and implementation planning for assigned post-processing components.• Investigate result interpretation issues, plotting errors, result synchronization problems, solver output discrepancies, performance bottlenecks, and customer-reported post-processing issues.Required QualificationsEducation• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Engineering, Computer-Aided Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related engineering discipline.Experience• 8+ years of software engineering experience delivering commercial or enterprise engine