Senior Application Engineer (Aerospace & Defence)

Senior Application Engineer (Aerospace)
The experience expected from applicants, as well as additional skills and qualifications needed for this job are listed below.
Job Summary
Location: Leamington Spa
Contract Type: Permanent
Reporting Line: Technical Manager / Team Leader
Work Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Who We Are
Altair is leading the global convergence evolution toward smart, connected everything by delivering ground-breaking solutions in data analytics, simulation, high-performance computing, and smart connected products (IoT).
You will find a different culture at Altair in the way we work, how we interact and the collaborative approach we bring to projects. We pride ourselves on a business culture that enables open, creative thinking, and we deeply value our employees and their contributions towards our clients' success, as well as our own. Your ideas are heard, your efforts are visible and your work impacts company growth. Communication is open and teamwork is encouraged.
What You Will Do
Work with Altair’s strategic Aerospace & Defence clients to solve problems, create value, improve growth, and maximise business efficiency and profitability through the implementation of Altair’s product offering.
Performance Areas
Work closely with Account Managers throughout the sales cycle: from the strategy and account planning to the post-sales phases.
Deliver technical content to customers including presentations, demonstrations, and evaluations for both long-term and short-term opportunities.
Establish a long term and sustainable relationship with the assigned accounts, aligning Altair solutions with the client’s key business initiatives. Be viewed by the customer as their trusted advisor and point of contact for all technical activities. Meet new people and find new contacts to expand our footprint at new and existing customers.
Identify areas of opportunity at the account to displace competition, add products, add users, and expand usage globally.
Be the voice of the customer by taking their key requirements to the Altair product development teams, influence Altair product roadmap and drive competitive solution positioning.
Contribute to account-based marketing strategies, drive technology deployment and adoption including partner solutions.
Use technical product knowledge to identify customer pain points, assess technical needs, understand customer’s current infrastructure and engineering workflows.
Create and deliver compelling demonstrations of Altair’s solutions to add value to a customer’s business.
Where required, provide customers with training on Altair’s products.
Stay current with the latest software releases and work with the software team to help guide future product development.
What You Will Need
Qualifications
Master’s degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering
Full UK Driving license
UK Citizen (incl. UK passport)
Experience
A minimum of 5 years experience working in an aerospace OEM or Tier 1 Aerospace Supplier
Experience using commercial CAE tools within an engineering environment .
Experience using Altair HyperWorks, OptiStruct, RADIOSS, or other CAE simulation software involving real world, industry level applications.
Familiarity with Aerospace processes and standards (Eg, Regulations, MMPDS).
Logical problem-solving approach and the ability to clearly communicate the situation and proposed solution to the customer.
Familiarity with numerical solution techniques used in FEA.
Willingness and ability to travel to customer sites.
Preferred Requirements
Diverse use of CAE tools across multiple disciplines is a plus.
Experience with programming languages (TCL/Python or similar).
FEA-based optimisation techniques applied to composite and metallic structures.
Experience working in a software company in a Pre-sales role.
Soft Skills
Professional image and strong business acumen.
Commercial awareness & attention to detail.
Logical problem-solving skills, ability to demonstrate solutions coherently.
Excellent interpersonal and teamworking skills.
Good oral and written communication skills in fluent English.
Self-motivation and strong organizational skills.
How You Will Be Successful:
Envision the Future
Communicate Honestly and Broadly
Seek Technology and Business “Firsts”
Embrace Diversity and Take Risks
What We Offer:
Competitive salary on offer (flexible dependent on experience of candidate).
Target variable pay of up to 10% of base salary dependent on company and function performance metrics.
25 days annual leave entitlement plus local bank holidays and 3 days Christmas shutdown
Competitive benefits package post-probationary period including but not limited to:
Comprehensive pension scheme with enhanced employer contribution – 10%
Monthly gym membership
Health Insurance
Optical/Dental Cashplan
Life Insurance at 4x salary benefit
Income protection and comprehensive sick pay cover/enhanced statutory schemes
Regular team rewards including team building events/dinners/activities. Company breakfasts/fresh fruit and biscuits daily.
Training and development opportunities.
Additional Charity Day for each employee.
Eligibility for our Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
Why Work with Us:
Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of product development, high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.
Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing.
For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation, and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit
altair.com .
Ready to go? #ONLYFORWARD
At our core we are explorers; adventurers; pioneers. We are the brains behind some of the world’s most revolutionary innovations and are not only comfortable in new and uncharted waters, we dive in headfirst. We are the original trailblazers that make the impossible possible, discovering new solutions to our customer’s toughest challenges.
Altair is an equal opportunity employer. Our backgrounds are diverse, and every member of our global team is critical to our success. Altair's history demonstrates a belief that empowering each individual authentic voice reinforces a culture that thrives because of the uniqueness among our team.