Transforming the Future with the Convergence of Simulation and Data 

Software Development Engineer – Altair Inspire / Geometry 

Do you like a challenge, are you a complex thinker who likes to solve problems? If so, then you might be the new Altairian we are searching for. At Altair, your curiosity matters. We pride ourselves on a business culture that enables open, creative thinking, and we deeply value our employees and their contributions towards our clients' success, as well as our own. 

Job Summary:

Altair's Inspire software environment (https://www.altair.com/inspire/) is the industry's most powerful, versatile and easy-to-use Generative Design/Topology Optimization and rapid simulation solution. It enhances the concept development process by enabling simulation-driven design to increase product’s efficiency, strength and manufacturability. This can lead to reduction in material consumption, development time, and overall cost.

Inspire enables users to create new design concepts as well as modify and optimize existing ones with full parametric modeling in simple and intuitive workflows. Users can exercise familiar, conventional parametric CAD like tools along with doing elegant freeform modeling with poly-NURBS/subdivision technology.

What You Will Do:

We are looking for talented, ambitious individual contributors who are passionate about problem-solving and technology. As an equal member of the Inspire Geometry software development team you'd be building high-quality innovative software features for Inspire. You'd be collaborating to develop algorithms, implement workflows including user interface, provide APIs for shared usage and testing and be owner of the functionality to maintain and extend it as needed. 

What You Will Need: 

Basics:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering, computer science, mathematics, or related field
• Minimum 2 years of professional experience in software development, preferably in engineering domain related to CAD/CAM/CAE or Manufacturing
• Proven experience in C++ programming
• Excited to work in a fast-paced, team oriented environment with proactiveness and open-mindedness
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English

Preferred:

• Coding experience with 3D geometry tools like matrices, vectors, transforms, shape representations
• Experience with 3D geometric libraries like Parasolid/ACIS/CGAL/OpenVDB/Granite/OpenCASCADE
• Knowledge of commercial CAD software like SolidWorks/UG-NX/CATIA/PTC-Creo/OnShape
• Experience with game engines like Unity/Unreal Engine
• Basic Python knowledge 

How You Will Be Successful:

• Envision the Future
• Communicate Honestly and Broadly 
• Seek Technology and Business “Firsts” 
• Embrace Diversity and Take Risks  

What We Offer: 

• Work/Life Balance, with a mix of in-office and work from home.

• Collaborative and open environment, where your ideas count and can make the difference.

• Learn a wide range of industrial applications

• Grow opportunity in other Altair’s regions.

• The same dynamic environment you can find in a tech startup, in a solid and well-established global company that is changing the world through technology.

 

Why Work with Us:

Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of product development, high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities. 

 

Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI). 

 

For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation, and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit altair.com.  

 

Ready to go?  #ONLYFORWARD 

 
At our core we are explorers; adventurers; pioneers. We are the brains behind some of the world’s most revolutionary innovations and are not only comfortable in new and uncharted waters, we dive in headfirst. We are the original trailblazers that make the impossible possible, discovering new solutions to our customer’s toughest challenges.  

 

Altair is an equal opportunity employer. Our backgrounds are diverse, and every member of our global team is critical to our success. Altair's history demonstrates a belief that empowering each individual authentic voice reinforces a culture that thrives because of the uniqueness among our team.