Pipeline integrity engineer

Pipeline Integrity Engineer — Digital Twin / Pi-Twin Program 📍 Abu Dhabi, UAE (on-site / hybrid) · Full-time

About the role

Neurula Technologies is building Pi-Twin, an AI-driven pipeline integrity digital twin that fuses real-time sensor data with physics-based modeling to predict, localize, and quantify pipeline threats before they escalate. We're deploying the platform on a flagship program with large organization and are hiring a Pipeline Integrity Engineer to sit at the intersection of integrity engineering, sensing technology, and data science.

You'll be part of the integrity domain expert on the team — translating real-world pipeline physics, inspection data, and threat assessment into the logic that drives our digital twin, and working hand-in-hand with the operator's pipeline group through POC and scale-up.

What you'll do

• Own the integrity engineering basis for the Pi-Twin platform: corrosion, erosion, fatigue, mechanical damage, and geotechnical threat models for onshore and subsea pipelines
• Translate inspection and monitoring data (ILI, DAS/DTS fiber-optic sensing, ultrasonic, acoustic emission, CP/corrosion monitoring) into defect characterization and remaining-life assessment
• Define and validate acceptance criteria, anomaly thresholds, and alarm logic with the operator's integrity team
• Work alongside data scientists and ML engineers to ground physics-informed models in real pipeline behavior, including multiphase flow and pressure/temperature dynamics
• Support fitness-for-service and defect assessment (e.g., ASME B31G/Modified B31G, API 579, DNV) and risk-based inspection planning
• Contribute to the subsea POC: instrumentation layout, field checklists, commissioning, and interpretation of sensor results
• Interface directly with client side engineers and act as a technical point of contact during reviews and site activities

What you bring

• Bachelor's or Master's in Mechanical, Petroleum, Materials, Chemical, or related engineering
• 3+ years in pipeline integrity management within oil & gas (operator, EPC, or specialist integrity firm)
• Strong command of integrity codes and standards: ASME B31.4/B31.8, API 1160/1163, DNV-ST-F101, and corrosion/RBI methodologies
• Hands-on experience with one or more monitoring/inspection technologies (ILI, fiber-optic DAS/DTS, UT, AE, CP)
• Working understanding of pipeline hydraulics and multiphase flow
• Ability to work across disciplines — comfortable explaining integrity concepts to data scientists and software engineers
• Excellent written and verbal communication for operator-facing technical documentation

Nice to have

• Direct experience in the UAE / GCC oil & gas sector or with ADNOC operating companies and specifications
• Subsea pipeline integrity exposure
• Familiarity with digital twin, predictive analytics, or condition-based monitoring platforms
• Exposure to physics-informed / data-driven modeling concepts
• Relevant certifications (API 1169, NACE/AMPP corrosion, etc.)

Why Neurula

Join a small, high-velocity team building category-defining technology for one of the world's largest energy operators. You'll have real ownership, direct access to a marquee client, and the chance to shape a platform from POC to production.