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Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. We deliver industry-leading silicon design, IP, simulation and analysis solutions, and design services. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow.
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You have spent years building computational mechanics software that engineers actually depend on to simulate real-world physics, not toy problems, but production simulations running on massive clusters where performance and accuracy both matter. The difference between code that scales to thousands of cores and code that stalls out is something you understand at the implementation level, not just in theory. You have debugged parallel code that behaves differently on different architectures, and you know how to trace that back to a memory access pattern or a communication bottleneck that no profiler flagged.
Moving work from CPU to GPU is not a buzzword exercise for you. You have done it. You know what translates cleanly and what requires rethinking the algorithm entirely. Designing and extending mechanics software within large Fortran and C codebases is familiar territory. You are comfortable in code that predates modern tooling, and understand the underlying physics and numerical algorithms needed for complex engineering simulations. OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, OpenACC: these are not resume keywords, they are tools you reach for depending on the problem.
At Synopsys, you will work on LS-DYNA, software that powers crash simulations, structural analysis, and complex dynamics problems across automotive, aerospace, and civil engineering. The team is small, the problems are hard, and what you build will run on some of the largest supercomputers in the world.
What You'll Be Doing
- Develop, optimize, and maintain LS-DYNA solvers and features including CPG, CPM, SPH, DEM, PBM, and EGMM methods
- Contribute to the development of meshfree and finite element methods that balance accuracy, stability, and computational efficiency
- Port SPH and other performance-critical features from CPU to GPU using OpenACC, OpenMP Offload, and CUDA
- Debug and resolve consistency issues in LS-DYNA HYBRID on large-scale customer models where identical inputs must produce identical results regardless of thread count or CPU allocation
- Implement and optimize parallel algorithms using OpenMP and MPI for distributed memory and shared memory systems
- Profile, benchmark, and tune code performance on HPC clusters and GPU-accelerated systems
- Collaborate with ACE engineers and customers to translate requirements into software solutions, diagnosing simulation issues and delivering fixes that hold up in production environments
The Impact You Will Have
- Reduce simulation runtime for automotive crash models by porting SPH solvers to GPU, enabling faster design iteration cycles for customers
- Implement novel numerical techniques to enable customers to solve increasingly complex engineering challenges
- Resolve consistency and accuracy issues in HYBRID solvers that directly affect customer confidence in simulation results, ensuring production runs scale reliably across varying compute resources
- Improve scalability of LS-DYNA on next-generation HPC architectures, ensuring the software remains competitive as hardware evolves
- Deliver performance improvements that allow engineers to run larger, more detailed models without requiring additional compute resources
- Contribute to the long-term maintainability and robustness of a codebase used by thousands of engineers worldwide
- Help customers move critical workloads to modern HPC platforms, reducing their time to insight and increasing their R&D throughput
- Bachelor's or Master's in Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- 4-5+ years of hands-on experience developing computational mechanics software or HPC simulation tools
- Strong proficiency in Fortran, C, and C++ for performance-critical scientific computing
- Demonstrated experience with parallel programming using OpenMP and MPI in production codebases
- Solid understanding of finite element methods, meshfree methods, or computational dynamics
- Experience with GPU programming using CUDA, OpenACC, or OpenMP Offload is a strong plus
- Familiarity with profiling and debugging tools for parallel and GPU-accelerated applications is a plus
Who You Are
You have experience designing, implementing, and extending mechanics software and are comfortable working within large Fortran and C codebases. You can collaborate effectively with customers and colleagues to translate customer requirements into software solutions. You know how to isolate a performance bottleneck and propose a fix that improves runtime without sacrificing correctness. You are willing to work hybrid in Livermore, CA, three days per week in the office with a team of six engineers who care deeply about the quality of the code they ship.
The Team You'll Be Part Of
You will join a team of six engineers working on the Ansys Mechanical Product within Synopsys. The team focuses on CPG, CPM, SPH, DEM, PBM, EGMM solvers, HPC optimization, GPU acceleration, and benchmarking. You will collaborate closely with the ACE (Application and Customer Engineering) team, who handle most customer issues, but you will also work directly with customers when technical problems require deeper solver-level investigation. This is an individual contributor role working on LS-DYNA, one of the most widely used explicit dynamics simulation platforms in the world.
Rewards and Benefits
We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.
We Are
Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. We deliver industry-leading silicon design, IP, simulation and analysis solutions, and design services. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow.
You Are
You have spent years building computational mechanics software that engineers actually depend on to simulate real-world physics, not toy problems, but production simulations running on massive clusters where performance and accuracy both matter. The difference between code that scales to thousands of cores and code that stalls out is something you understand at the implementation level, not just in theory. You have debugged parallel code that behaves differently on different architectures, and you know how to trace that back to a memory access pattern or a communication bottleneck that no profiler flagged.
Moving work from CPU to GPU is not a buzzword exercise for you. You have done it. You know what translates cleanly and what requires rethinking the algorithm entirely. Designing and extending mechanics software within large Fortran and C codebases is familiar territory. You are comfortable in code that predates modern tooling, and understand the underlying physics and numerical algorithms needed for complex engineering simulations. OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, OpenACC: these are not resume keywords, they are tools you reach for depending on the problem.
At Synopsys, you will work on LS-DYNA, software that powers crash simulations, structural analysis, and complex dynamics problems across automotive, aerospace, and civil engineering. The team is small, the problems are hard, and what you build will run on some of the largest supercomputers in the world.
What You'll Be Doing
- Develop, optimize, and maintain LS-DYNA solvers and features including CPG, CPM, SPH, DEM, PBM, and EGMM methods
- Contribute to the development of meshfree and finite element methods that balance accuracy, stability, and computational efficiency
- Port SPH and other performance-critical features from CPU to GPU using OpenACC, OpenMP Offload, and CUDA
- Debug and resolve consistency issues in LS-DYNA HYBRID on large-scale customer models where identical inputs must produce identical results regardless of thread count or CPU allocation
- Implement and optimize parallel algorithms using OpenMP and MPI for distributed memory and shared memory systems
- Profile, benchmark, and tune code performance on HPC clusters and GPU-accelerated systems
- Collaborate with ACE engineers and customers to translate requirements into software solutions, diagnosing simulation issues and delivering fixes that hold up in production environments
The Impact You Will Have
- Reduce simulation runtime for automotive crash models by porting SPH solvers to GPU, enabling faster design iteration cycles for customers
- Implement novel numerical techniques to enable customers to solve increasingly complex engineering challenges
- Resolve consistency and accuracy issues in HYBRID solvers that directly affect customer confidence in simulation results, ensuring production runs scale reliably across varying compute resources
- Improve scalability of LS-DYNA on next-generation HPC architectures, ensuring the software remains competitive as hardware evolves
- Deliver performance improvements that allow engineers to run larger, more detailed models without requiring additional compute resources
- Contribute to the long-term maintainability and robustness of a codebase used by thousands of engineers worldwide
- Help customers move critical workloads to modern HPC platforms, reducing their time to insight and increasing their R&D throughput
- Bachelor's or Master's in Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- 4-5+ years of hands-on experience developing computational mechanics software or HPC simulation tools
- Strong proficiency in Fortran, C, and C++ for performance-critical scientific computing
- Demonstrated experience with parallel programming using OpenMP and MPI in production codebases
- Solid understanding of finite element methods, meshfree methods, or computational dynamics
- Experience with GPU programming using CUDA, OpenACC, or OpenMP Offload is a strong plus
- Familiarity with profiling and debugging tools for parallel and GPU-accelerated applications is a plus
Who You Are
You have experience designing, implementing, and extending mechanics software and are comfortable working within large Fortran and C codebases. You can collaborate effectively with customers and colleagues to translate customer requirements into software solutions. You know how to isolate a performance bottleneck and propose a fix that improves runtime without sacrificing correctness. You are willing to work hybrid in Livermore, CA, three days per week in the office with a team of six engineers who care deeply about the quality of the code they ship.
The Team You'll Be Part Of
You will join a team of six engineers working on the Ansys Mechanical Product within Synopsys. The team focuses on CPG, CPM, SPH, DEM, PBM, EGMM solvers, HPC optimization, GPU acceleration, and benchmarking. You will collaborate closely with the ACE (Application and Customer Engineering) team, who handle most customer issues, but you will also work directly with customers when technical problems require deeper solver-level investigation. This is an individual contributor role working on LS-DYNA, one of the most widely used explicit dynamics simulation platforms in the world.
Rewards and Benefits
We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.
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Align your degree to your R&D specialty
USCIS scrutinizes whether your degree field directly matches the R&D discipline on the petition. A mechanical engineering degree supporting a materials R&D role is a stronger match than a general science degree for the same position. Document the connection explicitly.
Use OFLC Wage Search before negotiating offers
R&D engineering prevailing wages vary significantly by SOC code and metro area. Pull the OFLC Wage Search figures for your specific discipline before any offer discussion so you know whether the employer's LCA wage meets the DOL threshold for your location.
Target employers with cap-exempt research affiliations
Universities, federal research labs, and nonprofit research organizations attached to higher-education institutions are cap-exempt H-1B employers. R&D engineers who join these entities can file outside the annual lottery window and start immediately upon USCIS approval.
Search Migrate Mate for verified R&D sponsors
Filter Migrate Mate by R&D engineering roles to see employers with confirmed LCA filing history in your discipline. This surfaces which companies have actively sponsored H-1B petitions for research and development positions rather than relying on employer claims alone.
Clarify IP ownership terms before signing
Many R&D engineering offer letters include IP assignment clauses that complicate later PERM or H-1B amendments if your research scope changes. Review the scope-of-work description in your offer against what the employer files in the LCA before accepting.
Request premium processing when project timelines are fixed
R&D roles often have grant-funded start dates or product-cycle deadlines. Premium processing gives you a 15-business-day USCIS adjudication target, which your employer can request on Form I-907 to protect against standard processing delays disrupting project commitments.
H-1B Visa R D Engineering: Frequently Asked Questions
Does my R&D engineering role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, if the position normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific engineering discipline directly related to the research work. USCIS evaluates the job duties, not just the title. Roles involving applied research, prototype development, or experimental design in fields like electrical, chemical, or mechanical engineering consistently meet the specialty occupation standard when the employer documents the degree requirement in the LCA and petition.
How do I find R&D engineering employers who actively sponsor H-1B visas?
Migrate Mate shows verified LCA filing history by role and employer, so you can identify companies that have sponsored H-1B petitions for R&D engineering positions rather than guessing based on company size or reputation. DOL LCA disclosure data is public, and filtering it by occupation code lets you see which employers consistently file for research and development roles in your engineering discipline.
Can I switch R&D employers mid-H-1B without losing my visa status?
Yes, H-1B portability under AC21 lets you start working for a new R&D employer once they file an H-1B transfer petition on your behalf, as long as your current H-1B was approved and you've maintained valid status. The new employer must file a new LCA and I-129 petition. If your research project or job duties change substantially, USCIS treats it as a material change requiring an amended petition.
What happens to my H-1B if my R&D project is cancelled or defunded?
If your employer terminates your position, you have a 60-day grace period to find a new sponsoring employer, change to another visa status, or depart the U.S. The grace period doesn't extend if you resign voluntarily. R&D engineers on grant-funded projects should confirm with their employer whether a grant lapse triggers a termination or a temporary bench period, since USCIS treats those situations differently.
Does the type of R&D work I do affect how USCIS evaluates my H-1B petition?
Yes. Basic research roles at universities or nonprofit labs are more straightforwardly supported under the specialty occupation standard because the academic environment implies degree-level work. Applied R&D at a private company requires the employer to document in the LCA and petition why the specific research duties require a degree in a directly related engineering field, not just a general science background. O*NET can help confirm the typical education requirements for your specific role title.