Consulting Engineer – FEA

🕒 November 25, 2025

🏄 California, Oregon – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🌲 Oregon – Remote

💵 $90k - $105k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Rand Worldwide

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201 - 500 employees

🤝 B2B

📚 Education

🏢 Enterprise

B2B • Education • Enterprise

Rand Worldwide is a leading provider of technology solutions and professional services that help companies digitally transform their engineering and design processes through software implementation, simulation, training, and support across industries such as manufacturing, energy, and product design.

📋 Description

• Act as the technical lead on customer engagements—including enablement programs, onboarding sessions, mentoring, and consulting projects—with responsibility for running simulations, reviewing designs, interpreting results, and recommending improvements based on findings and experience. • Stay up to date with Ansys platforms and expand knowledge through ongoing training and self-guided learning to broaden Rand Simulation’s enablement and consulting capabilities. • Collaborate closely with Rand Simulation’s sales team to provide technical guidance, credibility, and subject-matter expertise in both pre-sales and post-sales engagements. • Analyze customer technical needs, infrastructure, and workflows to ensure an application fit and develop recommendations for both immediate and long-term simulation success. • Articulate the value of Ansys technology and Rand Simulation’s services—including training, mentoring, and consulting—in helping customers achieve their design and productivity goals. • Partner with RandSim marketing to generate blog posts, white papers, webinars, and other content related to key initiatives for your team and customers. • Provide customized Ansys training and mentoring sessions that help customers improve simulation proficiency, increase productivity, and achieve early success with new tools. • Occasionally assist with technical support overflow and follow-up to ensure customer satisfaction and retention.

🎯 Requirements

• M.S./B.S./B.A. in Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Physics, or similar discipline • 4+ years of mechanical or structural engineering/design experience • 4+ years of FEA/structural analysis experience with Ansys Mechanical • LS-DYNA experience strongly desired • Experience with Ansys Motion, nCode, ACP, or other structural toolsets is a plus • Experience using Altair, FEMAP/NX, MSC/PATRAN, Autodesk Nastran, Simulation Mechanical/Algor, COMSOL, Abaqus, Simulia, or similar codes a plus • Proven experience with multiple structural analysis methods (rigid body dynamics, transient analyses, nonlinear static/transient, modal, linear dynamics, etc.) • Experience with multiphysics, fatigue, and explicit dynamics strongly desired • Experience with MAPDL and/or Python coding strongly desired • Knowledge of underlying FEA principles such as linear algebra, partial differential equations, etc. • Extensive proficiency in 3D CAD systems (Inventor and/or SolidWorks preferred) • Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to lead customer discussions, trainings, and webinars with confidence. • Logical problem-solving approach and ability to clearly communicate both technical and business value to customers. • Self-starter with high motivation, organization, and the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. • Comfort working directly with clients in both enablement and project contexts, articulating recommendations and guiding simulation strategy. • Highly developed learning and thinking ability with direct client-facing experience. • Willingness to travel up to 10%.

🏖️ Benefits

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S for any employer without company sponsorship. • We celebrate employment equity and diversity! We encourage applications from all qualified individuals and do not discriminate based on disability, race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status or any other basis protected under federal, state, provincial or local laws. • We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities. • If you require reasonable accommodation during the application process, we will work with you to meet your needs. Please send all inquiries regarding accommodations to [email protected]. Be sure to include your name, the job you are interested in, and the accommodation you are seeking.