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Sr AE Manager - Adams

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Role Expectations

This role will lead Adams Application Engineer team to provide primary technical consultant for MSC Adams multi-body dynamics simulation solutions, providing end-to-end pre-sales and post-sales support throughout the customer lifecycle.

This role is responsible for solution consulting, technical validation, project implementation, user enablement, and troubleshooting for customers in industries including automotive, new energy, aerospace, industrial equipment, robotics, rail transportation, and general manufacturing.

Job Description

  • Lead Team to engage with customers to understand system dynamics and motion simulation requirements and develop technical solutions using MSC Adams.
  • Deliver software demonstrations, Proof of Concept (POC) studies, benchmark evaluations, feasibility analyses, and technical presentations.
  • Support customer projects involving multibody dynamics, rigid-flexible coupling, vehicle dynamics, suspension systems, steering systems, powertrain analysis, mechanism design, vibration analysis, durability analysis, and control system integration.
  • Provide technical support for model creation, subsystem assembly, joint and force definition, parameter setup, solver execution, result interpretation, and troubleshooting.
  • Assist customers in integrating Adams with CAE tools such as Nastran, Marc, Cradle,Simulink, and control system platforms.
  • Conduct customer training programs, hands-on workshops, and best-practice sharing sessions to enhance simulation capabilities.
  • Monitor project execution, resolve technical challenges, and ensure successful implementation of simulation solutions.
  • Develop industry-specific simulation case studies, technical documentation, troubleshooting guides, and knowledge repositories.
  • Collaborate with sales, R&D, and other CAE product teams to support business development and multi-software simulation solutions.

Job Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or above in Mechanical Engineering, Vehicle Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering, Mechatronics, Automation, or related disciplines.
  • Fluent in written and spoken English.
  • Experience in leading a team.
  • Solid understanding of dynamics, kinematics, rigid body mechanics, and finite element fundamentals.
  • Hands-on experience with MSC Adams and multibody dynamics simulation workflows.

Familiarity with

o Multibody Dynamics (MBD) o Rigid-Flexible Coupling Analysis o Vehicle Dynamics o Suspension and Steering System Simulation o Powertrain and Driveline Analysis o Vibration and Durability Analysis o Control System Co-Simulation

  • Ability to independently perform model setup, subsystem creation, constraint and force definition, solver configuration, results analysis, and report generation.
  • Strong communication, presentation, and customer-facing skills with a proactive learning mindset.
  • Willingness to travel occasionally for customer support and project delivery.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in vehicle dynamics, chassis development, suspension systems, robotics, construction machinery, or industrial equipment simulation projects.
  • Knowledge of flexible body modeling and co-simulation with Nastran, Marc, or Simulink.
  • Experience with other MSC software solutions such as Romax.
  • Basic programming or automation experience using Python, Adams/View scripting, MATLAB, or similar tools.
  • Previous experience in industrial software technical support, application engineering, customer-facing consulting, POC delivery, or simulation project implementation.

Taken from Cadence's own posting, last seen live on 1 Nov 2026.

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About Cadence

Electronic design automation software, Palladium and Protium emulation hardware, design IP, custom silicon services and engineering simulation (mechanical CAE, CFD, molecular modeling), sold to chipmakers, systems companies, automakers and drug discovery teams.

Pay schedule: Cadence pays a base salary with incentive compensation (an OTE plan for sales roles, bonus for others) and equity eligibility, with a 401(k) match and an employee stock purchase plan in the US and private medical cover, a group pension and 25 days of holiday in the UK.

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