Senior R&d Documentation Specialist

**Requisition #**: 16952

**Our Mission: Powering Innovation That Drives Human Advancement**:
When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys.

**Innovate With Ansys, Power Your Career.**

**Summary / Role Purpose**

The Senior R&D Documentation Specialist (M/F/d) writes, edits, and creates a variety of Ansys documentation deliverables. They review all work for organization, content, technical accuracy, and style. This role requires effective planning, scheduling, research, writing, and editing skills. The Senior Documentation Specialist participates as a member of 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 Duties and Responsibilities**
- Determines audience needs to create, plan new and rethink existing user documentation, tutorials, API documentation, AI-based documentation, algorithmic documentation, and videos for Ansys products
- Updates and revises previously released documentation
- Attains a high level of knowledge about both Ansys products and Ansys documentation tools, processes, and procedures
- Works closely with development teams to implement technological requirements for Ansys documentation
- Requires mínimal supervision
- May mentor other documentation specialists
- Collaborate and Coordinate with other documentation specialists of various Ansys tools.

**Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience**
- BS in Technical Writing, Technical Communication, Computer Science, English/Linguistics, Journalism, or Engineering with 5 years’ experience or MS with 3 years’ experience
- Fluency in English, along with excellent written and spoken communication skills
- Skilled at gathering and analyzing technical and product information from various sources, paying close attention to detail
- Proven experience developing user-centric documentation ensuring a high level of quality, consistency, and accuracy
- Adept at 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, in particular optiSLang, but also proven engineering experience in numerical simulation using Ansys and non-Ansys tools.
- Experienced 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
- Extensive knowledge on learn pathes of customers, on different personas consuming documentation material, how optiSLang is used at new, low-level and advanced customers, general experience with developer APIs such as Python or REST, extensive practical knowledge of Optimization algorithms (DOE, Metamodelling, Sensitivity, Robustness, Reliability, Optimization, RDO, RBDO) and process integration and democratization.
- Proven 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

LI-REMOTE

At Ansys, we know that changing the world takes vision, skill, and each other. We fuel new ideas, build relationships, and help each other realize our greatest potential. We are ONE Ansys. We operate on three key components: our commitments to stakeholders, our values that guide how we work together, and our actions to deliver results. **As ONE Ansys, we are powering innovation that drives human advancement**

Our Commitments:

- Amaze with innovative products and solutions
- Make our customers incredibly successful
- Act with integrity
- Ensure employees thrive and shareholders prosper

Our Values:

- Adaptability: Be open, welcome what’s next
- Courage: Be courageous, move forward passionately
- Generosity: Be generous, share, listen, serve
- Authenticity: Be you, make us stronger

Our Actions:

- We commit to audacious goals
- We work seamlessly as a team
- We demonstrate mastery
- We deliver outstanding results

**VALUES IN ACTION**

Ansys is committed to powering the people who power human advancement. We believe in creating and nurturing a workplace that supports and welcomes people of all backgrounds; encouraging them to bring their talents and experience to a workplace where they are valued and can thrive.

Our culture is