Advanced Emerging Tech Engineer Principle

Company Overview:

If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you're searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve's position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone!

If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you're searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve's position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we empower critical industries with extraordinary solutions, strengthening today's world while building tomorrow!

We are seeking a technically strong and innovation-driven Principal Engineer to serve as a Technical Leader within Flowserve's Innovation Execution team. In this role, you will develop and deliver advanced solutions for emerging customer and industry needs within a critical growth area. You will lead sprint-based innovation programs, with support from dotted-line team members, to accelerate development, solve technical challenges, and deliver high-impact outcomes. You will also partner closely with other engineering teams, including Innovation Core Functions, New Product Development, and Business Unit Engineering, to align resources and build future technical capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical sprint execution for assigned innovation programs, ensuring clear direction, accountability, and timely delivery of sprint objectives.

• Provide day-to-day technical leadership to team members who report through dotted-line relationships, aligning priorities, deliverables, and technical direction.

• Drive execution of innovation projects across assigned technical focus areas

• Coordinate closely with Innovation Core Functions to ensure the right technical capabilities and resources are aligned to each sprint or project effort.

• Translate innovation priorities into actionable technical workplans, sprint goals, and execution milestones.

• Support technical problem solving, design decisions, prototyping, testing, and validation activities needed to advance innovation programs.

• Maintain strong communication with project managers, engineering leaders, and stakeholders to support alignment, issue resolution, and execution speed.

• Identify risks, dependencies, and resource constraints early and escalate or resolve them as needed to keep sprint execution on track.

• Contribute to continuous improvement of Innovation Execution processes, tools, and team operating methods.

• Serve as a technical subject matter expert in one or more assigned innovation domains.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, Technology, or a related technical field.

• Several years of technical experience in product development, systems engineering, applied R&D, or innovation execution.

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and coordinate work across direct and dotted-line team structures.

• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills.

• Experience leading technical workstreams, sprints, prototypes, or cross-functional project efforts.

• Excellent written and verbal communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence across levels of the organization.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced, innovation-focused environment.

• Ability to work independently while contributing as part of a team-oriented, highly technical organization.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Engineering, Science, or a related discipline.

• Experience at the Specialist or Principal Engineer level supporting products or systems for extraordinary flow control solutions.

• Familiarity with agile execution methods, sprint planning, stage-gate processes, or structured innovation delivery approaches.

• Experience working in matrixed organizations with both direct-report and dotted-line team structures.

• Experience supporting technology development from concept through prototype, test, and validation.

Flowserve is a world-leading manufacturer and aftermarket service provider of comprehensive flow control systems. Join a company whose people are committed to building a more sustainable future to make the world better for everyone. With 16,000+ employees in 50+ countries, we combine our global reach with local presence. Our team challenges themselves to approach each situation with ingenuity and creativity to help provide our customers with the most innovative flow control products and services. We support 10,000+ customers worldwide, creating products to meet the needs of our customers who are supplying energy, fresh water, pharmaceuticals and other essentials to consumers, businesses and governments globally. We invite you to put your talents and career in motion at Flowserve.

Req ID : R-20451

Job Family Group : Engineering

Job Family : EN Advanced / Emerging Technologies Engineer

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