Are you passionate about developing the most powerful real-time engineering services in the industry?

Do you enjoy working in a cross-disciplinary multi-cultural team?

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 Development Engineer for Real-time Drilling Engineering Services, you are responsible for the development of advanced real-time engineering services, e.g. to ensure sufficient hole cleaning when optimizing rate of penetration, to optimize tripping speed or to identify wellbore hydraulics related events as part of our digital well planning and drilling automation software suite. Within our drilling automation development team, you will work closely together with peers from research projects, project leadership, the software development organization, product management, technical support and service delivery teams, as well as external partners such as customers and consulting service providers.

As a Development Engineer for Real-time Drilling Engineering Services, you will be responsible for:

• Development of wellbore hydraulics models and software for real-time drilling engineering.

• Verification and validation of software with international internal and external users.

• Transition of technologies from research into product development.

• Identification of end-user needs.

• Assistance for project leader with project planning, effort and budget estimations.

• Support of end-users around the globe during prototype testing and field introduction.

To be successful in this role you need:

• Above average Master’s degree or even PhD in a relevant engineering discipline and ideally experience in drilling applications engineering.

• Strong knowledge of fluid dynamics and related drilling engineering domains.

• Experience in technology research & development.

• Demonstrated expertise in numerical simulations.

• Ideally experience in systems engineering, agile software development processes and in managing a software development team.

• Excellent communication skills and strong interest in working in a diverse environment.

• Fluency in English and good presentation and writing skills.

• To be self-contained, self-motivated, and have a structured approach to work.

Applications from people with disabilities are expressly welcome. Severely disabled candidates will be given preference in the case of equal qualifications.

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 part-time in our office in Celle, Germany, and part-time remotely from home.

• 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 our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being 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. However, to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to 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 work-life 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