Senior Principal, Product Design and Engineering - Automation & Control

Senior Principal, Product Design and Engineering - Automation & Control

Driving Innovation in Industrial Automation Through Advanced Instrumentation Design?

Do you enjoy leading crossfunctional engineering teams to build nextgeneration control solutions?

Partner with the best

Baker Hughes stands as a leading global energy technology company, delivering innovative solutions that make energy safer, cleaner, and more efficient across the entire value chain. Operating in more than 120 countries, the company blends deep industrial expertise with advanced engineering and digital technologies to support energy production, transformation, and

decarbonization. With over a century of heritage, Baker Hughes partners with customers in oil and gas, industrial sectors, and emerging energy markets to accelerate progress toward a more sustainable energy future.

Fuel your passion

As a Senior Principal, Product Design and Engineering - Automation & Control, you are leading the development of new and enhanced microprocessorbased electromechanical industrial monitoring and control instrumentation. You are overseeing product architecture, mechanical and pneumatical design, electrical systems, embedded firmware, and software development for Baker Hughes' valves monitoring and control instrumentation. You are driving technical excellence, ensuring compliance, and enabling highperformance engineering execution across the full product lifecycle.

As a Senior Principal, Product Design and Engineering - Automation & Control, you will be responsible for:

• Developing the mechanical and pneumatical design of nextgeneration positioners

• Managing a crossfunctional development team across Mechanical, Pneumatical, Embedded Firmware, and Software Engineering

• Leading engineering teams for new product introduction (NPI) and enhancement projects from concept through massproduction readiness

• Developing comprehensive schedules, identifying critical paths, and maintaining execution throughout program timelines

• Driving rigor in instrumentation development related to safety, compliance, performance, and cost

• Ensuring baseline agency certifications are obtained for all new instrument NPI projects

• Providing resource management, coaching, and stewardship to strengthen engineering capability and technical expertise

• Further developing core capabilities of the NPI engineering team by building training plans, career paths, and highperformance teams

• Driving reliability and system integration throughout all stages of product and technology development

• Driving strategic collaboration with Global Supply Chain (Sourcing, Manufacturing, Quality) to ensure component quality and costout initiatives

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a Bachelor of Science in Engineering

• Have a minimum of 7 years of professional experience in digital product development within an engineering capacity

• Have strong knowledge of positioner mechanical and pneumatical design

• Have a solid understanding of overall positioner design principles

• Have strong problemsolving skills with excellent verbal and written communication abilities

• Have proven leadership, mentoring capability, and crossfunctional collaboration skills

• Have high energy with a resultsdriven mindset

• Have strong analytical and criticalthinking abilities

• Have the ability to work effectively with all levels of engineering and management

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and wellbeing of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we must push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:

• Contemporary worklife balance policies and wellbeing activities

• Comprehensive private medical care options

• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs

• Tailored financial programs

• Additional elected or voluntary benefits

You will be eligible to participate in Company-sponsored benefit programs, including health & welfare programs and the Thrift Plan (401k). You will have a choice of coverage options that best suit your needs. Coverage options and contribution amounts are related to your benefit elections, base salary level, and specific requirements of each of these plans.

This position is eligible for our comprehensive and competitive benefits package, which can be found here, and is further eligible for additional forms of compensation such as bonuses subject to the terms of the applicable benefit plans or policies.