Job Description

Role Snapshot

You’ll design, analyze, and mature downhole drilling systems and the associated tooling and test equipment that make ultra-deep geothermal practical. Based at GA Drilling’s Product Centre in Rio de Janeiro, you’ll work closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Quality & Compliance to move the technology from its current TRL 4/5 prototype and rig-test stage to TRL 8 field qualification. You’ll own the design to build to test to redesign loop, ensuring the tools are safe, reliable, efficient, and field-ready.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and analyze mechanical components, systems, tooling, and test equipment, creating 3D models, assemblies, manufacturing drawings, and controlled engineering data
• Develop multi-domain hydraulic, mechanical, and control models, using simulation and test results to improve system performance and prediction accuracy
• Evaluate the effects of drilling-fluid viscosity, density, and temperature using CFD, system-level hydraulic models, and fluid-property or rheology data
• Mature designs through TRL gates, including qualification and validation test plans, design-for-manufacture reviews, technical risk management, and design freeze
• Own hands-on assembly, disassembly, maintenance, repair, testing, integration, and commissioning procedures as the tools mature
• Lead failure diagnosis and root-cause analysis, maintain clear technical documentation, and collaborate across functions and suppliers to ensure on time, on spec deployment

What You Bring

Technical Toolkit

• 3D parametric CAD, preferably Autodesk Inventor, with manufacturing drawings, GD&T, BOMs, revisions, and PDM workflows such as Autodesk Vault
• FEA, stress and thermal calculations, DFM, and design justification
• MATLAB, Simulink, Simscape, hydraulics, and multi-domain system modelling
• CFD and fluid-property evaluation tools for non-Newtonian, high-temperature fluids
• HSE standards, product compliance, design controls, and technical risk management

Professional Experience

• 5+ years of experience in mechanical engineering, with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline; MSc is a plus
• Proven experience designing and manufacturing mechanical components and progressing hardware from prototype through qualification and field deployment
• Hands-on experience with the assembly, maintenance, testing, troubleshooting, and repair of complex mechanical or electromechanical systems
• Work independently in fast-moving engineering environments, applying sound judgement while maintaining strong documentation and cross-functional communication
• Nice to have
  • Downhole or drilling-tool design, with oil and gas or geothermal domain exposure
  • Experience with hydraulics, electromechanical systems, field commissioning, and failure reporting
  • Experience with Autodesk Inventor and Vault, MATLAB/Simulink/Simscape, ANSYS Fluent/CFX, Autodesk CFD, or comparable toolchains