
Senior Combustion Engineer
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Job overview
The Senior Combustion Engineer develops and improves combustion-system hardware for utility-scale gas turbines. The role evaluates flow, mixing, pressure loss, heat transfer, thermal behavior, emissions, and thermoacoustic response, translating analysis and operating evidence into hardware designs, technical recommendations, and validation plans. The engineer collaborates with design, test, manufacturing, and field organizations on F-Class, G-Class, and HL-Class turbine systems.
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A Snapshot of Your Day
As a Senior Combustion Engineer, you will develop and improve combustion-system hardware for utility-scale gas turbines. You will evaluate flow distribution, mixing, pressure loss, heat transfer, thermal behavior, emissions, and thermoacoustic response. Working with design, test, manufacturing, and field organizations, you will translate analysis results and operating evidence into robust hardware designs, technical recommendations, and validation plans for F-Class, G-Class, and HL-Class gas turbines.
How You’ll Make an Impact
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Perform CFD and combustion-aerodynamics analyses to evaluate reacting and non-reacting flow, fuel-air mixing, pressure loss, emissions behavior, and thermal loading in gas turbine combustion systems.
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Develop and assess combustion hardware concepts using fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, turbomachinery, and mechanical-system integration principles.
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Use Siemens NX, STAR-CCM+, ANSYS Workbench, or comparable tools to create models, perform analyses, interpret results, and document engineering conclusions.
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Integrate analytical, validation, and field data to support hardware qualification, technical risk assessment, root cause analysis, and design improvement.
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Define analysis and validation needs for new or modified combustion hardware and support technical reviews of assumptions, boundary conditions, methods, and results.
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Work with manufacturing, test, field-service, and design teams to resolve combustion-system issues and implement practical hardware solutions.
What You Bring
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A bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline; a master’s degree or Ph.D. is preferred.
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5 + years of experience in gas turbine combustion design, combustion aerodynamics, CFD, thermal-fluid analysis, testing and validation of combustion system.
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Working knowledge of reacting or non-reacting CFD, heat transfer, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, combustion dynamics, thermoacoustics, and emissions formation.
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Ability to develop appropriate computational models, define boundary conditions, assess mesh and model sensitivity, evaluate numerical results, and recognize limitations or uncertainty.
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Experience applying analysis results to combustion hardware design, hardware qualification, failure investigation, root cause analysis, or technical risk assessment.
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Experience with engineering software such as Siemens NX, Teamcenter, STAR-CCM+, ANSYS Workbench
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Understanding of utility-scale gas turbine systems; experience with F-Class, G-Class, or HL-Class gas turbines is beneficial.
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Ability to collaborate across design, test, manufacturing, and field organizations and convert complex technical results into clear engineering recommendations.
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Strong written and verbal technical communication skills.
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Travel up to 20%
About the Team
Gas Services
Our Gas Services division offers Low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization. Zero or low emission power generation and all gas turbines under one roof, steam turbines and generators. Decarbonization opportunities through service offerings, modernization, and digitalization of the fleet.
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
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Career growth and development opportunities; supportive work culture
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Company paid Health and wellness benefits
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Paid Time Off and paid holidays
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401K savings plan with company match
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Family building benefits
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Parental leave
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Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Siemens Energy is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local
law.
How this job compares
Set against the 7,498 open Mechanical Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Florida median$91–159K/yr92 salary ranges
- US median$44–55/hr387 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 236 open Mechanical Engineer jobs in Florida and 7,498 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Florida
- Jacobs26 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Mechanical Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (6,189 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 5,295 of the 7,498 open Mechanical Engineer jobs (71%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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