CAE Senior Principal Software Architect (Design)

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Define and execute architectural strategies for interactive 3D desktop and web-based CAE applications spanning multiple projects, programs, and product areas.
• Establish shared application frameworks, architecture standards, and reusable software capabilities that support development across the DES organization.
• Lead the architecture of scalable GPU compute orchestration, clustered GPU job scheduling, and resource management for computationally intensive engineering workflows.
• Anticipate emerging technical challenges and develop solutions to complex problems spanning application architecture, graphics rendering, UI frameworks, computational workloads, and platform integration.
• Drive major technical initiatives that improve software scalability, application performance, development efficiency, and architectural consistency across multiple programs.
• Establish architectural principles and technical decision frameworks that guide software design, technology selection, and cross-team implementation.
• Resolve systemic technical dependencies and integration challenges across desktop applications, shared services, computational design systems, and engineering platforms.
• Influence technical roadmaps and architectural priorities across DES and Platform IPT, aligning investments with long-term computational design and engineering objectives.

Job requirements

• Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to U.S. export controls.
• Extensive experience defining software architecture for complex desktop applications, CAE systems, engineering platforms, or comparable industrial software.
• Demonstrated expertise in interactive 3D application architecture, graphics rendering, UI frameworks, and high-performance software systems.
• Proven ability to define and execute technical strategies spanning multiple projects, programs, or product areas.
• Experience developing shared software frameworks, architectural standards, and reusable platform capabilities adopted across teams.
• Demonstrated ability to solve unique, complex technical problems spanning multiple systems or engineering disciplines.
• Experience architecting GPU compute infrastructure, distributed execution systems, or computational job orchestration.
• Strong judgment in making high-impact architectural decisions and balancing competing technical and program requirements.