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 RoleAspenTech, a global leader in software solutions for optimizing process manufacturing across various industries including oil and gas, petroleum, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals, is seeking a talented Software Developer to join our Advanced Process Control and Dynamic Optimization R&D Group in Houston.
In this role, you will play a crucial part in supporting and enhancing our industry-leading advanced control (DMC3) and dynamic optimization (GDOT) products, utilizing cutting-edge software tools, AI, and advanced modeling and optimization technologies.
This unique opportunity allows an exceptional software developer to contribute to a rapidly expanding product that serves as a fundamental pillar for industry digitalization.
Your Impact
- Primarily focus on designing, developing, maintaining, and supporting DMC3/GDOT products.
- Current job responsibility is to lead DMC3 desktop UI development.
- Analyze customer requirements and translate them into product features and use cases.
- Deliver innovative solutions to enhance our products, ensuring they provide better value for our customers with a focus on simplicity in deployment and maintenance.
- Collaborate with other teams to identify synergies among AspenTech’s extensive range of products.
- Work collaboratively with the extended team in Product Management, Customer Support, and Quality Assurance to ensure a successful product release and seamless customer adoption.
What You'll Need
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Chemical Engineering, or related fields with 10+ working experience.
- Passion for software development.
- Familiarity with software development in C#.
- Experience with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Forms (WinForms) development.
- Knowledge of design patterns such as MVVM or MVP to ensure clean, maintainable code.
- Familiarity with unit testing frameworks.
- Experience with third-party UI controls such as Infragistics or DevExpress is a plus.
- Experience with multithreading and asynchronous programming is a plus.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, writing, and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to convey complex information in a clear and concise manner.
- Experience in software project management is a plus.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as strong, with comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans and high-quality carrier options. Several recent remarks characterize the health insurance as "great" or "amazing," with low copays noted in some cases.
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Parental & Family Support — Maternity and paternity leave receive consistently positive mentions and are characterized as well-reviewed. Company materials also highlight family-oriented benefits alongside core coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The package includes vacation/PTO, paid holidays, and sick leave, with multiple indications of generous paid time off. Dedicated volunteer hours and well-regarded leave policies reinforce breadth in time-away benefits.
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AspenTech is a global leader in asset optimization software helping the world’s leading industrial companies run their operations more safely, efficiently and reliably – enabling innovation while reducing waste and impact on the environment. AspenTech software accelerates and maximizes value gained from digital transformation initiatives with a holistic approach to the asset lifecycle and supply chain. By introducing effective AI modeling to traditional principles of process engineering, AspenTech delivers a faster and more accurate analysis of efficiency and performance boundaries. The real-time data and actionable insights delivered by our software help customers push the boundaries of what’s possible.









