Reporting & Collaboration
Reports to Engineering Manager(s) and Electrical Engineering Lead.
Works closely with Engineering Design, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Project Management, Field/Service, customers, suppliers, and engineering peers.
Key Responsibilities
Strong communication skills, including the ability to support customer-facing technical discussions and collaborate across functions.
Evaluate customer tools from an electrical perspective including grounding approaches, signal-integrity methods, and related practices at both the detailed technical level and big-picture system-level design.
Participate in design reviews, risk assessments, project planning, and customer-facing technical reviews; communicate status, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly.
Design, build, troubleshoot, and support test equipment, fixtures, prototypes, lab and field testing, production validation, and customer demonstrations using appropriate diagnostic tools such as DMMs, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.
Design and develop electrical systems, schematics, wiring diagrams, interface/control definitions, and component selections from concept through release and production support.
Create and maintain engineering documentation, including BOMs, cable/harness drawings, wire diagrams, test procedures, component libraries, and ECR/ECO packages.
Develop and execute verification/validation plans, DVP&R documentation, test fixtures, and custom test equipment; analyze results and document conclusions.
Support cable wiring and PCBA test, repair and rework and document as needed.
Ensure designs meet applicable safety, EMC/EMI, environmental, and regulatory requirements as needed.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or closely related field.
5–8+ years of professional electrical engineering experience, or equivalent qualifications demonstrating comparable technical depth, practical experience, and engineering capability.
Experience with electrical design tools such as OrCAD/Altium, AutoCAD Electrical, EPLAN, KiCad, or similar.
Experience with signal integrity, grounding, shielding, noise mitigation, and system-level evaluation of design/test tools and practices.
Working knowledge of analog/digital fundamentals, power distribution, grounding, protection, sensors/actuators, and transmission-line characteristics
Experience creating schematics, wiring diagrams, cable/harness documentation, electrical documentation packages, and controlled engineering changes.
Hands-on troubleshooting experience with standard lab instrumentation and practical test setups.
Ability to design or support manufacture of electrical test fixtures, test systems, or production/lab test equipment.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with schematic capture, PCBA design, layout review, and component selection experience.
Experience with cable/harness design, connector selection, environmental sealing, EMC/EMI compliance, UL/IEC, NFPA 70/79, CE marking, or similar standards.
Experience with intrinsic safety methods, IECEX/ATEX certification, EMC/EMI, environmental, and regulatory requirements as needed.
Familiarity with functional safety concepts, FMEA, fault-tree methods, PLM/ERP systems such as Windchill, and structured ECR/ECO change control.
We Power the Industry that Powers the World
Throughout every region in the world and across every area of drilling and production, our family of companies has provided the technical expertise, advanced equipment, and operational support necessary for success—now and in the future.
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We are a global family of thousands of individuals, working as one team to create a lasting impact for ourselves, our customers, and the communities where we live and work.
Purposeful Innovation
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Service Above All
This drives us to anticipate our customers’ needs and work with them to deliver the finest products and services on time and on budget.
About the TeamCorporate
Our family of companies is supported by our global Corporate teams, providing expert knowledge from functions including Human Resources, Information Technology, Compliance, Finance, QHSE, Marketing and Legal centers of expertise. We are structured to provide guidance and service above all to all our business operations.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field
- 5-8+ years of professional electrical engineering experience, or equivalent technical qualifications
- Experience with electrical design tools such as OrCAD, Altium, AutoCAD Electrical, EPLAN, KiCad, or similar
- Experience with signal integrity, grounding, shielding, noise mitigation, and system-level design and test evaluation
- Working knowledge of analog and digital fundamentals, power distribution, grounding, protection, sensors, actuators, and transmission-line characteristics
- Experience creating schematics, wiring diagrams, cable and harness documentation, electrical documentation packages, and controlled engineering changes
- Hands-on troubleshooting experience with standard laboratory instrumentation and practical test setups
- Ability to design or support manufacture of electrical test fixtures, test systems, or production and laboratory test equipment
- Experience with schematic capture, PCBA design, layout review, and component selection
- Experience with cable and harness design, connector selection, environmental sealing, EMC/EMI compliance, UL/IEC, NFPA 70/79, CE marking, or similar standards
- Experience with intrinsic safety methods, IECEx/ATEX certification, EMC/EMI, environmental, and regulatory requirements
- Familiarity with functional safety concepts, FMEA, fault-tree methods, PLM/ERP systems such as Windchill, and structured ECR/ECO change control
NOV Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NOV and has not been reviewed or approved by NOV.
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials describe comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage alongside life/disability insurance, a global EAP, wellness resources, and paid parental leave; the company also states it pays most U.S. health plan premiums, which bolsters perceived value.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) program features auto‑enrollment, immediate vesting, and ongoing employer contributions; historical filings and comments point to a generally well‑regarded match even as exact formulas can change.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid parental leave and widely cited decent PTO at hire are complemented by options like experience‑based vacation credit and a flexible holiday, creating a rounded time‑off offering in many U.S. roles.
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What We Do
NOV delivers technology-driven solutions to empower the global energy industry. For more than 150 years, NOV has pioneered innovations that enable its customers to safely produce abundant energy while minimizing environmental impact. The energy industry depends on NOV’s deep expertise and technology to continually improve oilfield operations and assist in efforts to advance the energy transition towards a more sustainable future. NOV powers the industry that powers the world.
