Combustion Lead Engineer

About the role

As the Combustion Lead, you’ll be at the forefront of advancing Siemens Energy’s next generation of low-emission, high-performance gas turbine technology. In this highly visible role, you’ll drive the design and development of innovative combustion systems and components, partnering with global engineering teams to push the boundaries of fuel flexibility, emissions reduction, efficiency, and decarbonization. Every day, you'll influence the future of energy by transforming complex technical challenges into breakthrough solutions.

Leading a multidisciplinary team of engineers, you’ll coordinate the development of critical combustion components while collaborating closely with stakeholders across engineering, manufacturing, new product development, procurement, and frame program management. Beyond delivering successful combustion programs, you’ll champion initiatives that extend component life, improve reliability, reduce costs, and accelerate the adoption of digital technologies through advanced engineering methods and cross-functional leadership.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Provide technical input to the current fleet and next generation combustion systems.
• Develop the technical Product Design Specification / Project Description (PDS/PB) based on the PRS.
• Report project status to Engineering Management and escalate critical issues in a timely manner (technical, commercial, quality, or schedule-related).
• Represent Engineering in both internal and external customer communications, including reports and meetings.
• Serve as the technical project lead and primary engineering contact for development programs, with responsibility for team disciplines, milestones, and budgets.
• Develop next-generation combustion hardware that supports Siemens Energy’s decarbonization goals while adhering to the Product Development Process (PDP).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or related engineering discipline.
• Minimum 5+ years of combustion design experience leading R&D initiatives involving product development, analysis, testing and manufacturing.
• Experience with one of the skills in numerical tools such as STARCCM+, COMSOL and any heat transfer tools.
• Strong communication, organization, and collaboration skills with a proactive, structured, and customer‑focused mindset.
• Willingness to travel up to 15% for project work, shop support, and global collaboration.
• Experience with SAP, Teamcenter, and basic programming or data analysis (Python, Excel VBA, SQL) is a plus.
• Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization.
• Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. Citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

About The Team

The Gas Services division offers low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization, covering zero or low emission power generation and all gas turbines, steam turbines and generators, as well as decarbonization opportunities through service offerings, modernization, and digitalization of the fleet.