Software Engineer (m/f/d) Battery Development - SISW - PLM, Nuernberg

By bridging the gap between the physical and digital worlds, we help to accelerate digitalisation and sustainability: so that our customers around the world can become more competitive, resilient and sustainable.

Your new area of responsibility

• Work collaboratively as part of a geographically distributed development team passionate about extending the battery simulation features of STAR-CCM+. Develop and maintain new and existing features in support of the Battery Simulation Module
• Design, implement and test new features in the theme of battery simulation methods
• Interpret requirements for new features to create development proposals and prototypes which can be shared and further improved with the team
• Lead the software quality of development efforts within this theme and synthesize feedback on the features to continually improve the product
• Operate within an agile scrum environment taking appropriate ownership of development tasks and report back on progress and impediments
• Build, extend and maintain new and existing battery simulation related features within STAR-CCM+
• Implementation will involve using best-practices in software development to create high quality, object-oriented software using the C++ and Java programming languages
• Maintain and improve the existing sizable code base through refactoring to improve quality and address evolving software requirements
• Interpret market driven requirements to develop feature proposals, design documents & prototypes. Feature design should consider the end user and overall solution workflow to attain the efficient solution
• Create automated tests within a Java framework to exercise and maintain the quality of new features and ensure comprehensive test coverage of the product
• Take part in design and code reviews, providing appropriate presentations, supporting materials in support of new ideas, as well as feedback on similar peer work products
• Work to address problems and bugs as reported from other developers and/or customers.
• Attend regular team meetings, provide status and report on progress of work products

Your qualifications

• MS or Ph. D in Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related discipline
• C++ development experience as part of a medium to large size development team building commercial engineering simulation software
• Working knowledge of battery science and some familiarity with current simulation methods. Primarily the solutions are focused at lithium ion chemistry, but all forms of battery chemistry are encouraged
• Ability to work, communicate and coordinate within a large geographically distributed development organization
• Ability to independently understand complex problems and devise efficient, robust solutions on multiple platforms (Windows and Linux)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ideally, you should also have experience in the following fields:
• Software development in a commercial environment
• Engineering simulation software experience
• Client/server architectures
• Parallel programming experience
• Java and scripting languages such as Python and Bash