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A Snapshot of Your Day
As Principal Technical Lead for the SGT-A05 KB7X development program, your day centers on guiding the technical direction of a clean sheet aeroderivative engine at a critical point in its development lifecycle. You will lead engine level decision making, balancing performance, durability, operability, risk, cost, and schedule, while ensuring technical coherence across the full system.
Your time will be split between deep technical engagement and leadership activities. This includes reviewing and approving analyses and designs, resolving high risk issues, defining analytical methods and design criteria, and leading cross functional technical forums. You will work closely with a core team of roughly two dozen full time engineers while influencing a broader, globally distributed engineering community spanning multiple sites, disciplines, and partner organizations.
As a principal authority on the program, you will help translate business objectives into executable technical strategies and ensure the engine architecture supports both near-term delivery goals and long-term product line competitiveness. You will engage suppliers, manufacturing, and test organizations as needed, and you will play a central role as the program approaches First Engine to Test and subsequent development milestones to meet long term portfolio objectives.
How You'll Make an Impact

• Serve as the principal system level technical authority for the SGT A05 KB7X development program, with formal approval responsibility for key engine level technical decisions.
• Define and own the engine architecture, design philosophy, analytical methods, and technical risk from concept through First Engine to Test and early development testing.
• Lead and integrate multidisciplinary engineering teams spanning design, performance, aerodynamics, structures, thermal and secondary flow, rotordynamics, manufacturing, assembly, instrumentation, test, validation, and field management.
• Identify, frame, and resolve high risk technical challenges using first principles reasoning, targeted analysis, and disciplined trade studies.
• Ensure technical decisions align with broader business objectives including cost targets, product differentiation, producibility, and long-term portfolio strategy.
• Provide technical direction, review, and approval of critical engineering analyses and design deliverables, ensuring readiness for build, test, and program milestones.
• Play an active role in First Engine to Test (FETT) planning and execution by validating margins, assumptions, and system interactions prior to test.
• Mentor early and mid-career engineers by setting expectations for technical rigor, accountability, and clear decision making.
• Serve as a highly credible technical voice to program leadership and stakeholders, capable of explaining complex issues, framing tradeoffs, and driving alignment.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Extensive professional experience, ideally 10 or more years, in gas turbine or turbomachinery system design and development.
• Demonstrated effectiveness operating at a principal level, providing engine level technical leadership and accountability on complex development programs.
• Broad exposure to a wide range of gas turbine architectures, including aero engines, aeroderivative industrial turbines, and heavy industrial gas turbines, across multiple thrust and power classes.
• Deep systems level expertise encompassing engine architecture, mechanical integrity, structural analysis, thermal and secondary flow, and rotordynamics.
• Strong record of applying physics based, first principles reasoning to simplify ambiguity and enable timely, high quality technical decisions.
• Experience exercising formal technical approval authority with responsibility for system level outcomes and risk.
• Ability to influence, align, and lead large multidisciplinary teams across organizational and geographic boundaries without reliance on reporting structure.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing, assembly, instrumentation, and test disciplines and the practical implications of design choices.
• Clear, concise communication skills suitable for engagement with senior engineering leadership and program management.
• Willingness to travel typically five to ten percent, with increased presence during First Engine to Test and major test campaigns.
• Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without the need for current or future employer sponsored work authorization.

About the Team
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Rewards

• Career growth and development opportunities
• Supportive work culture
• Company paid Health and wellness benefits
• Paid Time Off and paid holidays
• 401K savings plan with company match
• Family building benefits
• Parental leave

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