Job Description Summary

The Advanced Clearances Senior Principal Engineer (SPE) is a senior technical leader and subject matter expert, responsible for setting strategic direction, shaping organizational technical vision, and driving innovation across multiple projects and domains. This role is responsible for driving engineering excellence, supporting highly complex projects, and mentoring next generation engineers. The Senior Principal Engineer collaborates across the multi-disciplinary Engineering team to own & lead risk management while fostering innovative solutions to meet business and customer solutions.

Job Description

What impact you’ll make (Key Responsibilities):

• Serve as a senior technical authority across Advanced Clearances, defining and enforcing technical standards, guiding key design decisions, and making final determinations on technical tradeoffs and risk acceptance.
• Provide end-to-end technical leadership for highly complex engineering projects and programs, ensuring sound architecture, technical rigor, safety, quality, and lifecycle risk closure.
• Own critical projects and technical deliverables supporting the success of Advanced Clearances across the breadth of our industrial and aero-derivative gas turbine systems and power plants.
• Act as a primary technical resource and subject matter expert within Advanced Clearances, providing guidance to project teams, suppliers, customers, and stakeholders.
• Review and approve engineering documentation, deliverables, deviations, and waivers to ensure compliance with internal requirements, external regulations, and industry standards.
• Collaborate directly with the Advanced Clearances Chief Engineer to review designs, align strategy, and provide technical direction.
• Drive problem resolution across multiple disciplines and identify technical risks and mitigations at the system level.
• Identify innovation opportunities by monitoring relevant technologies, regulations, competitors, and industry trends; support external engagement through conferences, academic partnerships, and technical forums.
• Interface with customers, suppliers, internal teams, and external entities to resolve the most complex technical issues and support successful project execution.
• Leverage data and AI/ML tools to accelerate design space exploration, automate analysis, and improve defect detection and root-cause resolution.
• Mentor and coach Principal and developing engineers to strengthen technical judgment, knowledge sharing, and engineering capability.
• Lead the development of technical standards, best practices, design practices, and process improvements while fostering a culture of curiosity, continuous improvement, and inclusion.

What you’ll bring (Qualifications):

• This role requires major experience in Engineering/Technology & Services Engineering. Knowledge level is comparable to a Master’s degree from an accredited university or college
• Demonstrated expertise in subject matter area.
• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, or Computer Science
• Minimum of 10 additional years of experience in an engineering capacity

Eligibility Requirement:

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

What will make you stand out (Desired Characteristics):

• Proven ability to lead technical teams and deliver results.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to provide clear communications and solid leadership on challenging technical issues
• Experience interfacing with customers, conferences, user groups
• Customer-focused with clear, concise written and oral communications at the appropriate level
• Experience and demonstrated success working in a complex cross-functional global environment
• Servant leadership mindset
• Restless dissatisfaction with “the way things are done” … focused on continuous improvement
• Data-driven but decisive despite ambiguity
• Humble, open, collaborative, and continuously learning
• Able to travel globally as needed
• Leadership to pursue correct engineering process in adverse conditions

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

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