Applications Engineer

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role

AspenTech, is a fast-paced, growing, high technology company, with a location in Medina, Minnesota. As a world leader in the Operations Technology (OT) field, AspenTech’s Digital Grid Management team (DGM) develops and supplies state-of-the-art energy management, optimization, and control software solutions to energy utility companies worldwide. 

Your Impact

• Design and implement software solutions for customer-specific needs. Most often this will be a program to interface with another system, or a program which provides a feature not available in our standard software packages.
• Conduct design workshops with customers to align requirements and technical approach.
• Write design documents which describe a viable technical approach to meeting the customer’s requirements with an emphasis on completeness and clarity.
• Develop software according to design documents following established processes and adhering to quality standards.
• Conduct reviews of code written by colleagues to ensure completeness, accuracy, and quality.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields.
• 2+ years relevant work experience.
• Proficiency in computer programming; C and/or Python preferred.
• Experience implementing and using common data structures and algorithms.
• Strong analytical, independent problem solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability and flexibility to travel to domestic and international customer sites.
• Ability to work independently, effectively manage time, and prioritize strategically.
• Knowledge of electric power generation, transmission, and distribution.
• Experience with client/server applications and Extract/Transform/Load interfaces
• Competent in technical writing.
• Experience programming with APIs (REST, SOAP), communication protocols, web services, message queuing and delivery systems (Kafka, AMQP, MQTT, etc), and/or databases (SQL, NoSQL).
• Familiarity with version control software, such as Git.

The salary range for this role is $74,200.00 - $92,800.00. This range represents what we in good faith believe is the range possible for base compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range based on several factors. This range may be modified in the future. This role is also eligible for bonus or variable incentive pay. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, charitable giveback day, medical/dental/vision insurance, and retirement benefits to eligible employees.