R&d Documentation Specialist Ii hybrid

Ansys is the global leader in engineering simulation. We empower the world’s most innovative companies to deliver transformational products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software solutions, we help our customers solve the most complex design challenges and engineer products limited only by imagination. Whether you are a software developer, product engineer, sales team member, or part of our corporate team, at Ansys we know that by embracing what makes us each unique, we become collectively better.
Summary / Role Purpose
The R&D Documentation Specialist II creates a variety of Ansys documentation deliverables. They determine the best way to organize and deliver information, write and revise supporting content for products (for this position, the specific team is the Ansys Rocky - Particle Dynamics Simulation software) and review content for technical accuracy, consistency, and style. This role requires effective planning, scheduling, research, writing, and editing skills. The R&D Documentation Specialist II works with development teams, keeping informed of product development activities to determine the need for new documentation as well as revisions, corrections, and changes in previously released materials.
Key
**Responsibilities**:
- Determines audience needs to create technical content (technical manuals like DEM, SPH and CFD manuals), user documentation, tutorials, microcopy/user interface copy for Ansys products
- Writing, reviewing, and maintaining various types of software documentation (manuals, articles, white papers, SDKs, etc.) for an advanced engineering and/or developer audience.
- Updates and revises previously released documentation
- Acquires enhanced knowledge about both Ansys products and Ansys documentation tools, processes, and procedures
- Works under some supervision
Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience
- BS in Technical Writing, Technical Communication, Computer Science, English/Linguistics, Journalism, or Engineering with 2 years’ experience or MS
- Fluency in English, along with excellent written and spoken communication skills
- Ability to gather and analyze technical and product information from various sources, paying close attention to detail
- Capacity to develop user-centric documentation ensuring a high level of quality, consistency, and accuracy
- Comfort in managing multiple tasks and priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, geographically diverse environment
- This position does not qualify for immigration sponsorship
Preferred Qualifications and Skills
- Familiarity with Ansys products
- Ability to understand and translate into appropriate words and illustrations technical content such as APIs, python scripts, models and equations that cover multiple scientific disciplines.
- Engineering background
- Prior working knowledge of Python and C++
- Previous experience with simulation software, including CAE, CFD, DEM and SPH.
- Familiarity with the concepts of documentation authoring, common project management software, version control, and structured documentation, as well as build tools, oXygen, DITA, XML, Git, Camtasia, user-centered design processes, and agile development methodologies
- Experience determining the best method in which to present information and then creating the appropriate output(s), such as topic-based help, videos, tutorials, graphics, and interactive learning systems
- Experience with Latex / Markdown / HTML / CSS / JSON / Confluence / Jira / Azure Dev Ops
**ALIGNING YOUR VALUES TO OUR SOLUTIONS**
At Ansys, our diverse, collaborative teams give us the strength and insight to solve the world’s most challenging engineering problems. Our ONE Ansys culture has at its core:
- Customer Focus
- Results and Accountability
- Innovation
- Transparency and Integrity
- Mastery
- Inclusiveness
- Sense of Urgency
- Collaboration and Teamwork
**ENGINEERING YOUR CAREER AT ANSYS**
At Ansys, you will find yourself among the sharpest minds and most visionary leaders across the globe. Collectively we strive to change the world with innovative technology and transformational solutions. With a prestigious reputation in servicing well-known, world-class companies, standards at Ansys are high - met by those willing to rise to the occasion and meet those challenges head-on. At Ansys, it’s about the learning, the discovery and the collaboration. It’s about the “what’s next” as much as the “mission accomplished.” And it’s about the melding of disciplined intellect with strategic direction and results that have, can and do impact real people in real ways. All this is forged within a working environment built on respect, autonomy and ethics.
At Ansys, you will find yourself among those eager to drive the world towards the next best thing with hands planted firmly on the wheel. Our team is passionate about pushing the limits of world-class simulatio

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