About the role

The Multidisciplinary Optimization Engineer role allows you to:

• Investigate the relationships between design parameters and their influence on performance objectives, to improve the efficiency of design exploration
• Systematically explore variations of design parameters through optimization, to identify the best design that satisfies requirements
• Assess the influence of variability to reduce the probability of design failures
• Gain comprehensive insight into the entire design space with visualization tools that enable trade-off across conflicting objectives
• Enable intelligent decision-making collaboratively across the organization

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R2025x FD04

Functional Value

• Use familiar & standard 3DEXPERIENCE documents throughout Simulation Automation applications

• Retain value of partial execution results by allowing automated simulation processes to run to completion, even with errors

• Ensure visibility, reliability, and support of Simulation Automation processes with a consistent lifecycle scheme throughout your business

User Experience Value

R2025x FD03

Functional Value

• New adapter to support 3DEXPERIENCE Low Frequency Electrical Machine workflows

• Run MODSIM Process centric Design Exploration on NX parameterized geometry via the parameter bridge functionality

• Instantly configure a fully automated simulation to run locally with a single click - saving time and eliminating manual setup

User Experience Value

• Create custom simulation automation templates for democratization in a new efficient way, using a streamlined new 'parameter first' approach

R2025x FD02

Functional Value

• Receive warnings of any invalid configurations in custom adapters during the design phase, helping avoid potential problems.

• Automate import of LS-Dyna d3plot results to 3DEXPERIENCE for automotive crash scenarios

• Efficiently search & analyze data by allowing application of standard 3DEXPERIENCE Customer Extension attributes on MODSIM content

• Understand the dependency between variables and their relative influence on the system performance with Sensitivity Analysis

R2025x FD01

Functional Value

• Retain value & access your results by allowing MODSIM Simulation Processes to run to completion, even with errors

R2025x GA

User Experience Value

• Enhance collaborative decision-making by gaining a deeper understanding of tradeoffs across simulations using the new intuitive user interface in the Performance Trade Off app. Explore new comparison views, a redesigned KPI chart view, and a streamlined method for comparing multiple 3D view

• Improved usability and maintainability of Results Analytics app

• Simpler and more intuitive navigation leading to a smoother and more efficient user experience by removing the redundant My Simulations widget

• A new Simulation Process Review App clearly differentiates the read-only viewer from the authoring tool, simplifies the learning curve, enhances productivity, and reduces the frustration of duplicated functionality. By consolidating the authoring experience into the Process Composer rich client, users can benefit from a more cohesive and efficient workflow.

R2024x FD03

Functional Value

• Run additional high-value industry use cases associated with Abaqus POWER'BY by certifying related adapters on 3DEXPERIENCE Cloud

• Use post-processing scripts in conjunction with the Abaqus adapter enabling additional multi-physics workflows connecting Abaqus POWER'BY to Process Composer on 3DEXPERIENCE Cloud

• Take advantage of the ease of use, flexibility, scalability & community support offered by Python scripts with a new adapter for Simulation Automation

• Communicate simulation results or manipulate a product view quickly and easily directly inside a custom Process Experience UI

R2024x FD02

Functional Value

• Access basic multi-physics workflows connecting Abaqus POWER'BY to Process Composer on 3DEXPERIENCE Cloud

User Experience Value

• Accelerate process development time confidently with accurate process run status, clear description of source and nature of errors and suggested resolution path
• Improve the usability, efficiency, and satisfaction of end-users with new consistent UI elements in automated simulation template experiences

R2024x FD01

Functional Value

• Control solver wall-clock time with a new core number chooser in the physics adapter - enabling users to adapt simulation automations to their specific needs, balancing performance & budget
• Choose the Station resources in the Performance Study UI - enabling users to tailor computational resources to match the complexity of their simulation, optimizing performance and reducing simulation runtimes

User Experience Value

• Accelerate process development time with accurate process run status, clear description of source and nature of errors and suggested resolution path

R2023x FD04

Functional Value

• Reuse existing processes (as references) in simulation automation, streamlining workflows and improving efficiency, ultimately saving time and resources
• Leverage modular design technology & enable replacement of conceptual components in automated simulation workflows

User Experience Value

• Organize content for greater efficiency & easier navigation in complex custom simulation templates with a new custom UI tab element

Reuse existing processes (as references) in simulation automation, streamlining workflows and improving efficiency, ultimately saving time and resources

Leverage modular design technology & enable replacement of conceptual components with support for the module non-knowledgeware parameter

Organize content with a new custom UI tab element for greater efficiency & easier navigation in a complex custom simulation template

Show a blank mandatory field in a simulation template providing enhanced organization, reducing confusion and facilitating reporting & traceability

Simplify monitoring of geometry changes & results by providing direct access in the automated simulation process job history table

R2023x FD03

User Experience Value

• Quickly identify and troubleshoot issues that may arise for upload/download adapters through a clear & easy to understand job log
• Focus on the authoring task by replacing multiple Utility adapter options with dedicated adapters & a redesigned Process Composer Action Bar
• Easily identify runtime problems & zoom to the relevant job log for efficient debugging

Focus on the authoring task by replacing multiple Utility adapter options with dedicated adapters & a redesigned Process Composer Action Bar

Easily identify runtime problems & zoom to the relevant job log for efficient debugging

Quickly identify and troubleshoot issues for the upload & download adapters through a clear & easy to understand job log

Quickly identify and troubleshoot issues for the Automation Script adapter through a clear & easy to understand job log

R2023x FD02

Functional Value

• Increase number of successful simulation process runs with a smart retry mechanism in the physics adapter
• Sort, analyze & reuse simulation process data by leveraging OOTB 3DEXPERIENCE Customer Extension attributes
• Expand addressable workflows & better compatibility with downstream calculations by providing units selection for Abaqus & Nastran export
• Compare the explored points to the baseline starting point and extreme points during design exploration

User Experience Value

• Understand progress & aid debugging in case of physics adapter failure through additional detailed information in the job log

Expand addressable workflows & better compatibility with downstream calculations by providing units selection for Abaqus & Nastran export

Sort, analyse & reuse simulation process data by leveraging OOTB 3DEXPERIENCE Customer Extension attributes

Compare the explored points to the baseline starting point and extreme points during design exploration

Compare the explored points to the baseline starting point and extreme points during design exploration

Compare the explored points to the baseline starting point and extreme points during design exploration

R2023x FD01 

Functional Value

• Reuse an existing simulation template custom UI for a new democratization scenario
• Troubleshoot and debug failures by providing a single location for advanced debugging information
• Improve the reliability of products using a new adapter to predict the probability of failure due to external uncertainties
• Predict reliability more accurately with a new method to handle correlated random variables
• Reduce the number of evaluations required to find an optimal design by reusing previous design po

User Experience Value

• Identify patterns or trends in process execution with a new parameter history scatter plot view
• Find & access information efficiently without searching through documentation with contextual user assistance panels
• Communicate the purpose of the simulation process by removing the immersive parameter display, resulting in a decluttered & simplified view
• Navigate, organize, discover & access process content with a new UI in the Process Composer widget on the 3DDashboard

Identify patterns or trends in process execution with a new parameter history scatter plot view

Reuse an existing simulation template custom UI for a new democratization scenario

Find & access information efficiently without searching through documentation with contextual user assistance panels

Communicate the purpose of the simulation process by removing the immersive parameter display, resulting in a decluttered & simplified vie

Navigate, organize, discover & access process content with a new UI in the Process Composer widget on the 3DDashboard

Troubleshoot and debug failures by providing a single location for advanced debugging information

Predict reliability more accurately with a new method to handle correlated random variables

Reduce the number of evaluations required to find an optimal design by reusing previous design points from an Analysis Case

Improve the reliability of products using a new adapter to predict the probability of failure due to external uncertainties

R2023 GA 

Functional Value

• Complete the migration to 3DDashboard by removing user access to the Process Composer Web App
• Streamline simulation process democratization by allowing reuse of an existing Simulation Template custom UI

Streamline simulation process democratization by allowing reuse of an existing Simulation Template custom UI

R2022x FD04

Functional Value

• Support additional customer use cases by allowing capture of output parameters in the 3DXScript adapter

User Experience Value

• Improve user confidence by providing detailed feedback on PLM update in the 3DX Parameter adapter
• Simplify & streamline access to the job log by removing redundant UI panels in the native client

Improve user confidence by providing detailed feedback on PLM update in the 3DX Parameter adapter

Simplify & streamline access to the job log by removing redundant UI panels in the native client

Support additional customer usecases by allowing capture of an output parameter in the 3DXScript adapter

R2022x FD03

Functional Value

• Provide authoring options for solver precision in the Physics Simulation adapter to ensure accurate & timely results for Explicit Analyses
• Support the new material alternative parameter to enable material replacement workflows without scripting
• Extend democratization scenarios by supporting string array parameters in custom simulation templates

User Experience Value

• Redesigned toolbar to provide clear differentiation between automation & exploration workflows
• Promote adoption of custom simulation templates on the 3DDashboard by providing a supplementary instruction document to the end-user

Support the new material alternative parameter to enable material replacement workflows without scripting

Provide authoring options for solver precision in the Physics Simulation adapter to ensure accurate & timely result for Explicit Analyses

Redesigned toolbar to provide clear differentiation between automation & design exploration authoring

R2022x FD02

Functional Value

• Provide authoring options in the Physics Simulation adapter to ensure accurate & timely result for Explicit Analyses.

Redesigned adapter log messages to allow user to find the root cause & resolve problems more efficiently

Redesigned adapter log messages to allow user to find the root cause & resolve problems more efficiently

Reduce the support burden by adhering to 3DEXPERIENCE conventions & allowing multiple import of Simulation Processes with the same nam

Continue modernizing the look & feel with the new clean table UI for Activity Options

Parameter table color coding to provide focus & make better use of the data that matters in a design exploration study

Parameter table color coding to provide focus & make better use of the data that matters in a design exploration study

Parameter table color coding to provide focus & make better use of the data that matters in a design exploration study

Improve predictive model accuracy by allowing retraining of a surrogate model during a simulation process run

R2022x FD01 

Functional Value

• Publish CAA documentation of the Custom Adapter SDK providing openness & integration for customer simulation methods
• Collaborate, build & execute a successful plan by supporting the use of simulation templates in Collaborative Tasks
• Reduce support burden by unifying location of advanced debugging information
• Enable efficient compute resource utilization by providing core specification in the Physics Simulation adapter
• Avoid time consuming workarounds by enabling direct mapping of input parameters in a hierarchical processes
• Streamline postprocessing workflow by creating an Analytics Case as

User Experience Value

• Simplify working with the job log by providing consistent information & format in the native client & 3DDashboard
• Allow natural & intuitive search for simulation automations attribute groups through support of 6W tags & advanced search, both on Premises & 3DEXPERIENCE Cloud
• New modernized calculator adapter with lookahead function suggestion & instant validation

Efficient input & output datamapping throughout the full process hierarchy

Simplify working with the job log by providing consistent information & format in the native client & 3DDashboard

Allow natural & intuitive search by supporting simulation attribute groups in 6W tags & advanced search

Reduce the support burden by unifying the location of advanced debugging information

New modernized calculator adapter with lookahead function suggestion & instant validation

Enable efficient compute resource utilization by providing core specification in the Physics Simulation adapter

Streamline the postprocessing workflow by creating an Analytics Case automatically in a simulation process execution

Improved assessment of a design exploration results & approximation models with new visualization charts

Use Results Analytics scripting to automate standard postprocessing in a simulation process execution

R2022x GA

Functional Value

• Progress portfolio simplification initiative & eliminate duplicated functionality by removing Job Monitor Widget on 3DDashboard

User Experience Value

• Streamline the user experience by providing job management capabilities in a single 3DDashboard widget

Streamline the user experience by providing job management capabilities in a single 3DDashboard widget

R2021x FD07

Functional Value

• Provide additional flexibility & coverage of high value usecases by enabling selection of specific analysis cases in automated 3DEXPERIENCE simulations.
• Provide a compute license attenuation scheme to enable affordable iterative design exploration studies

User Experience Value

• Transform authoring of hierarchical simulation processes by providing an encapsulation mechanism for expert users
• Simplify simulation template authoring by enabling dataflow mapping in the Process Composer widget

Transform authoring of hierarchical simulation processes by providing an encapsulation mechanism for expert users

Provide additional coverage of high value usecases by enabling selection of analysis cases in the Physics Simulation adapter

Continued introduction of a new table throughout the Process Composer App allowing multi-select & advanced filtering for improved usability

Simplify simulation template authoring by enabling dataflow mapping in the Process Composer widget

New approximation training adapter to automatically post-process a driver's subflow data to create an approximation

R2021x FD06 

Functional Value

• Provide a subscription model tailored to customer needs by supporting the new SIMULIA flexible SimUnit Credit business model for simulation process execution.
• Break free of local compute constraints by supporting further complex workflows, adapters & powerful compute via 3DEXPERIENCE on the Cloud.
• Adopt a consistent reserve/unreserve behaviour to replace the bespoke lock/unlock on simulation objects.
• Cover expert MDO workflows with a new Approximation training adapter to create a surrogate model using previous job results

User Experience Value

• Provide a consistent look & feel in the Simulation Process Admin widget.
• Analyse, uncover value & understand design exploration data on a more intuitive level through custom charting visualizations.

New visual analytics plots of exploratory datasets in the Results Analytics App.

Supporting the new SIMULIA flexible SimUnit Credit business model for process execution.

Simulation Process Activities valid for execution on 3DEXPERIENCE Cloud

R2021x FD05

Functional Value

• Break free of local IT constraints by supporting powerful execution of native simulations & design exploration studies via 3DEXPERIENCE on the Cloud.
• Provide a subscription model tailored to customer needs by supporting the new SIMULIA flexible SimUnit Token business model for simulation process execution.
• Streamline automated simulation process debugging with more focused diagnostics for additional adapters

User Experience Value

• Improved integration with 3DXPERIENCE with more than 50% performance improvement during execution for workflows automating parametric geometry changes.
• Smoother widget interaction by refining drag & drop & 'open with' for simulation process objects on the 3DDashboard

R2021x FD04

Functional Value

• A new Attribute & Attribute Group widget on the 3DDashboard bringing advanced searchability & traceability for users on the DS Cloud.
• New lifecycle, collaboration & template management functionality in Experience Studio 3DDashboard App

User Experience Value

• Improvements in the diagraming engine allowing users to create, manage & visualize complex hierarchical automated simulation process layouts more reliably than ever.
• More responsive authoring experience with up to 80% reduced lag in adapters accessing 3D geometry and more than 40% quicker opening of sheets in the MS Excel adapter.
• A new clean table UI in key adapters providing a modernized look & feel.
• 30% quicker fetching of completed job logs over 50000 lines, plus additional filtering options provide superior execution status assessment & pinpointing of key log information.