IT Simulation Engineer

Overview

PHINIA is seeking an IT Simulation Analyst to support, optimize, and enhance engineering simulation environments, CAE tools, and digital engineering workflows across CAD/PLM/CAE systems.

What you'll do

• Provide operational support for engineering simulation tools (e.g., ANSYS, Altair Hyperworks, MATLAB/Simulink, GT-Suite, or PHINIA-specific applications), ensuring stability, performance, and usability.
• Support installation, configuration, version upgrades, license management, plugin integrations, and performance tuning of CAE applications across global engineering teams.
• Collaborate with engineering and CAE users to streamline simulation workflows, improve job execution reliability, reduce waiting times, and enhance model/data availability.
• Maintain and support IT components underpinning simulation workloads, including HPC clusters, compute nodes, GPU resources, job schedulers (PBS Pro), shared storage, and license servers.
• Support integration of CAE environments with CAD/PLM systems (e.g., Teamcenter) to ensure proper version control, model consistency, and simulation data governance.
• Analyze simulation job performance, queue usage, and resource bottlenecks; recommend scaling, optimization, and automation improvements for compute resources.
• Coordinate with IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Network, Storage, and vendor teams to resolve issues, plan capacity, and evaluate opportunities for hybrid/cloud HPC adoption (Azure/AWS HPC).
• Maintain comprehensive documentation such as installation guides, system runbooks, architecture diagrams, workflows, and user best-practice guidelines.
• Ensure CAE and simulation systems comply with PHINIA's IT security, identity, compliance, and software licensing requirements.
• Support engineering teams in rolling out new simulation tools, capabilities, configuration updates, and digital engineering initiatives (e.g., digital twins, model-based engineering, simulation automation).
• Assist with automation of simulation workflows using scripting (Python/Shell), job orchestration improvements, template standardization, and repeatable pipelines.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to modernize simulation environments, including HPC enhancements, cloud readiness, user experience improvements, and performance monitoring.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
• 3-6 years of experience supporting engineering simulation/CAE environments or engineering IT systems.
• Hands-on experience with one or more CAE tools (ANSYS, Altair HyperWorks, MATLAB/Simulink, GT-Suite, etc.).
• Familiarity with HPC environments, job schedulers (PBS, SLURM), and compute/storage performance optimization.
• Understanding of CAD/PLM data flows, engineering BOM structures, and simulation data management.
• Solid technical skills in Windows/Linux environments, scripting (Python, Shell), and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of simulation licensing models (FlexLM, RLM, etc.).
• Experience working with ITIL processes for incident, change, and problem management.

Nice to have

• CAE tool certifications (ANSYS, HyperWorks) preferred.
• Linux/Windows admin certifications, a plus.
• Cloud/HPC certifications (Azure HPC, AWS HPC), nice to have.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work full-time in the country where the position is based; visa sponsorship is provided only in certain circumstances based on business need.