CAE Applications & Job Scheduling Engineer

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We are seeking an experienced CAE Applications & Job Scheduling Engineer to support engineering and simulation applications within a high-performance computing environment.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience supporting CAE applications, application installation/configuration, software upgrades, validation, and job submission, along with experience managing LSF job scheduling and workload management.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain CAE/engineering simulation applications.
• Support CAE application validation, benchmarking, and regression testing.
• Create and maintain environment modules and application submission templates.
• Troubleshoot CAE application and job execution issues.
• Work closely with engineering teams to support simulation workloads and application requirements.
• Support Spectrum LSF job scheduling and workload management.
• Configure and maintain LSF queues, scheduling policies, and resource requirements.
• Troubleshoot pending, failed, or incorrectly scheduled jobs.
• Support fair-share, backfill, reservations, and workload prioritization.
• Monitor workload utilization and help optimize job execution.
• Analyze application/job performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Coordinate with software vendors for CAE application issues, upgrades, and technical support.
• Support software licensing and application availability as needed.

Required Skills

• Strong experience supporting CAE applications in an engineering/simulation environment.
• Hands-on experience with CAE application installation, configuration, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with CAE application submission and job execution in an HPC environment.
• Strong experience with Spectrum LSF or similar workload/job scheduling tools.
• Knowledge of LSF queues, scheduling policies, resource allocation, backfill, and fair-share.
• Experience with Linux/Unix environments.
• Experience with environment modules and application submission scripts/templates.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with CAE tools such as ANSYS, Abaqus, LS-DYNA, STAR-CCM+, MATLAB, or similar engineering applications.
• Experience with FlexLM/RLM licensing.
• Experience with OpenPBS/PBS Pro or other job schedulers.
• Shell/Bash or Python scripting experience.
• Experience supporting automotive or manufacturing engineering environments.