Systems Engineer - Video Borescope Systems

Do you enjoy leading system architecture and technical strategy for complex inspection technologies that deliver exceptional image quality, reliability, and customer value?

Would you like to drive cross-functional engineering innovation by integrating optical, electrical, mechanical, and software technologies into next-generation industrial inspection solutions?

Join our team!

The Systems Engineer serves as a senior technical leader responsible for the architecture, integration, and validation of advanced video borescope inspection systems. This role provides system-level leadership across optical, electrical, mechanical, software, and manufacturing disciplines to ensure successful development of high-performance industrial inspection products.

The position is responsible for defining system architecture, guiding technical strategy, identifying and mitigating technical risks, and driving cross-functional execution throughout the product lifecycle. The Systems Engineer plays a key role in balancing product performance, reliability, manufacturability, cost, and customer value while helping shape future technology direction and platform evolution.

This role primarily focuses on system architecture, technical leadership, and cross-functional coordination across engineering disciplines. While the position is expected to maintain strong technical engagement and periodically participate in integration activities, design reviews, troubleshooting efforts, and technical investigations, the primary responsibility is guiding and governing the technical direction of the product rather than executing day-to-day engineering tasks.

As a Systems Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Owning system architecture and overall technical integrity of complex video borescope inspection platforms.
• Defining and managing system and subsystem requirements, ensuring traceability from customer needs through verification and validation.
• Leading system-level architecture development across optical, electrical, mechanical, software, and manufacturing domains.
• Driving cross-functional technical decision making and resolving complex multidisciplinary engineering challenges.
• Leading system integration and troubleshooting activities across hardware and software components, including imaging pipelines, illumination performance, mechanical articulation systems, user interfaces, and embedded electronics.
• Establishing verification and validation strategies and ensuring successful execution of system qualification activities.
• Leading technical trade studies balancing performance, reliability, manufacturability, cost, schedule, and customer value.
• Driving technical risk identification, mitigation planning, and risk reduction activities throughout product development.
• Influencing technology roadmaps and platform strategies across current and future generations of inspection products.
• Analyzing and communicating system performance data to engineering and business stakeholders.
• Providing technical leadership, architectural direction, and mentoring to engineering teams while ensuring effective execution across disciplines.
• Supporting New Product Introduction activities from concept development through commercial release.
• Leading DFMEA activities and ensuring robust system-level design decisions.

Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Have 12+ years of experience in systems engineering, product development, product architecture, or complex system integration.
• Have demonstrated experience developing and governing system architectures for multidisciplinary products.
• Have a strong understanding of requirements development, system integration, verification, and validation methodologies.
• Have experience leading cross-functional technical teams through complex engineering challenges.
• Have proven ability to assess technical risk and drive effective mitigation strategies.
• Have excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and technical leadership skills.
• Have the ability to influence technical direction across organizations without direct authority.

Desired Qualifications

• Have experience with imaging systems, optical systems, image sensors, lighting systems, or image-processing technologies.
• Have experience with industrial inspection, NDT, aerospace, energy, or other mission-critical applications.
• Have familiarity with embedded systems, software-intensive products, and hardware/software integration.
• Have experience with requirements management, systems engineering tools, and model-based engineering approaches.
• Have deep understanding of image quality metrics, resolution, noise, illumination performance, and system-level performance optimization.
• Have experience establishing systems engineering processes and best practices within product development organizations.
• Have demonstrated success mentoring engineers and developing technical talent.

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 during the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are most productive.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But 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

This position requires current work authorization in the country of employment. The employer is unable to provide or continue work authorization sponsorship for this role.

The annual pay scale for this position is between $136,000.00 - $252,540.00.
Candidates for this role (office-based/ hybrid/ remote) must be located in or near the locations displayed above. The pay range/scale displayed above represents Baker Hughes' good faith estimate of the minimum and maximum for this position at the time of this posting and applies to the possible locations for this position. Baker Hughes will issue a non-bias competitive offer; the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hires, full-time salaries in some U.S. locations, not including equity or benefits. Where an applicant will ultimately fall within the pay range/scale depends on a variety of factors, including, for example, geographic work location, skillset, qualifications, internal pay alignment, level of experience, and demonstrated performance over time. Please keep in mind that the range stated above is the full base salary range for the role and does not include other forms of compensation. Your recruiter can share more about the pay range for this position during the hiring process.

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.

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Technical Leader, Systems, Product Design and Engineering