Senior Engineer – Gas Turbine Application Engineering

Location: Bengaluru

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Job Description Summary

GE Vernova is helping accelerate the transition to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy. As part of GE Vernova Gas Power, this role supports the development of competitive gas turbine solutions that help customers meet today’s power needs while enabling the energy systems of the future.

The Senior Engineer – Gas Turbine Application Engineering will lead critical and complex customer proposals, shape winning solutions, and provide technical leadership across global teams. This is a high-impact role for an experienced engineer who combines strong gas turbine knowledge with commercial awareness, customer focus, and cross-functional leadership.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Own the technical content of proposals for GE Vernova Gas Turbine configurations in partnership with the Commercial Operations and Design Engineering teams to help secure new orders.
• Review customer and EPC requests for proposal (RFPs) to evaluate technical requirements and define the appropriate gas turbine scope of supply.
• Develop technical comments, clarifications, and exceptions to customer specifications, clearly identifying areas of compliance and deviation.
• Identify special customer requirements and work with engineering and sourcing teams to develop competitive, executable solutions.
• Define proposal strategies for gas turbine and associated equipment on large, complex projects.
• Partner with Engineering, Commercial Operations, Product Finance, and Product Line teams to align technical scope, cost, schedule, and bid strategy.
• Lead technical discussions with regional application engineering teams, product engineering, execution engineering, and subject matter experts to deliver high-quality proposals.
• Support early-stage customer engagement by helping guide customers toward preferred configurations and standard offerings where appropriate.
• Lead technical scope and cost reviews for key opportunities, with support from the costing team as needed.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and help build technical capability across the global application engineering team.
• Drive continuous improvement in tools, methods, standard work, quality, productivity, and cycle time.
• Support the introduction of new products and features to improve gas turbine competitiveness in the market.
• Stay current on product developments, industry trends, and internal processes, and promote their effective adoption within the team.
• Be available for occasional international travel to support customer meetings and technical clarifications.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or equivalent knowledge/experience.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in design engineering, application engineering or project execution within the power generation industry.
• Significant experience working with customers on combined cycle power projects.

Desired Characteristics

• Strong knowledge of gas turbine product portfolios, performance, and associated balance-of-plant equipment.
• Experience in tendering, proposal development, and deal strategy for new units or gas power services.
• Understanding of combined cycle plant requirements and the ability to evaluate technical and commercial trade-offs.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical reviews across global teams.
• Demonstrated success driving Lean or continuous improvement initiatives.

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