Specialist Engineer - Pipe System Design

In NOV Subsea Production Systems (NOV SPS), part of Fortune 500 company NOV, we power the industries that power the world. Our core business is engineering, manufacturing, and delivering high-quality flexible pipe systems for offshore oil and gas developments worldwide. NOV SPS designs and manufactures flexible pipes and innovative subsea solutions for the offshore energy industry. With operations in Denmark—Brøndby and Kalundborg—and Brazil—Rio de Janeiro and Açu Port—we combine advanced engineering expertise with state-of-the-art manufacturing technology to deliver subsea equipment to major oil companies and installation contractors worldwide. As demand for offshore flexible pipe systems continues to grow, we are looking for a Specialist Engineer to strengthen our global Pipe System Design discipline in Brazil, with particular focus on early engagement activities, Petrobras portfolio support, customer design-basis alignment, technical interface management, and continuous improvement of engineering practices. Your New Role As a Specialist Engineer – Pipe System Design , you will play a key technical role supporting early customer engagement, FEED studies, tendering, pre-project development, and project execution for Petrobras and international projects. This role goes beyond standard project execution. You will provide technical guidance, promote methodology alignment, and support consistent decision-making across the Pipe System Design discipline. You will help translate customer requirements, field-development assumptions, product capabilities, and internal engineering practices into robust and feasible technical solutions. A key aspect of the role will be maintaining and developing customer design-basis documentation, including flexible pipe product requirements, design assumptions, engineering methodologies, qualification needs, manufacturing interfaces, testing requirements, and execution constraints. You will work closely with engineering teams, Disciplinary Leads, product engineering, commercial teams, project management, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and other interface departments to improve design maturity, reduce technical uncertainty, and strengthen NOV’s responsiveness to customer needs.