Engineering Specialist - Customer Application Engineering
About The Position
Baker Hughes is hiring a Senior Engineer, Advanced Engineering to lead and support fitness-for-service (FFS), remaining-life, and asset-integrity assessments of fixed, rotating, and pressure equipment, including hydropower applications. The role combines advanced computational engineering and software development with consulting project leadership, technical mentoring, quality control, and business development. Approximately 80% of the work is technical delivery and project leadership, including advanced stress, fatigue, and fracture mechanics analysis; remaining-life and asset-integrity assessments; development and testing of engineering software; and managing projects from client inquiry and proposal through delivery. The remaining approximately 20% focuses on developing client relationships and business opportunities, expanding services into markets, and contributing technical papers and conference presentations. The position has a hybrid work schedule in Boulder, Colorado, with potential remote opportunities for non-local candidates who are located in or near the listed locations. It involves moderate travel to industrial sites, conferences, and trade shows, and additional hours may be required to meet deadlines.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related science or engineering field.
- At least 8 years of related experience, including extensive engineering project experience with an OEM, utility, consulting group, or EPC firm.
- Extensive knowledge of structural mechanics, mechanics of materials, fatigue, vibration, finite element analysis, and programming such as Python.
- Demonstrated experience developing, testing, and validating engineering software for consulting applications, including in-house tools and/or commercial software.
- Advanced experience with geometry and mesh-generation methods and tools.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical work and develop creative solutions to complex engineering problems.
- Demonstrated experience applying advanced FEA methods and best practices, including nonlinear constitutive and time-dependent material models, fatigue and fracture assessment, and structural vibration analysis.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, organizational, mathematical, written-communication, and verbal-communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills, discretion with confidential information, diplomacy, and a team-oriented approach.
- Ability to obtain required industry certifications as necessary.
- Must have valid work authorization in the country of employment; the employer is unable to sponsor work authorization.
- Must successfully complete the Baker Hughes pre-employment drug and alcohol screening and background check.
Nice To Haves
- Professional Engineer (PE) license, Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, or both; preferred but not required.
- Experience with geometry and mesh-generation tools such as Solidworks, Abaqus CAE, ANSYS Workbench, and FEMAP.
Responsibilities
- Perform advanced fitness-for-service and computational engineering work, including advanced stress, fatigue, and fracture mechanics analysis using finite element and FFS software.
- Conduct remaining-life and asset-integrity assessments across various industries.
- Develop and test in-house and commercial software tools for consulting applications.
- Develop and improve engineering methods to increase project efficiency and profitability.
- Initiate and manage projects from start to finish, including responding to client inquiries, defining scope and pricing, preparing proposals, and delegating and guiding project tasks.
- Mentor engineers on multi-person projects and guide task delegation to support efficient delivery.
- Support team development and recruitment.
- Train colleagues on advanced engineering tasks and solutions when required.
- Implement quality-control standards and procedures for engineering deliverables and client communications as needed.
- Identify and cultivate business relationships and opportunities, particularly with key clients.
- Contribute to business-development strategies that expand specific services and solutions.
- Write, review, and contribute to technical papers and articles for publication and presentation at industry conferences.
- Present Advanced Engineering capabilities at conferences and seminars as directed by management.
- Identify opportunities to expand into new markets.
Benefits
- Comprehensive private medical care options.
- Life insurance and disability programs.
- Tailored financial programs.
- Education assistance.
- Generous parental leave.
- Mental health resources.
- Dependent care support.
- Additional elected or voluntary benefits.
- Company-sponsored health and welfare programs.
- Thrift Plan (401k).
- Eligibility for the Baker Hughes short-term incentive plan, with payout based on company and individual performance and company financial results.
- Potential additional compensation such as bonuses, subject to applicable plans or policies.
- Flexible working and remote opportunities, subject to business requirements and travel expectations.
- Work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
