Digital Engineer

Job Snapshot
Location:	Worldwide
Employee Type:	Full-Time
Industry:	Oil and Gas
Manages Others:	No
Job Type:	Engineering
Education:	Bachelor’s degree in information technology, petroleum engineering, geology or geoscience
Travel:	No
Salary:	Ranges from $50,000 (USD) to $200,000 per year

Summary

Digital engineering jobs combine information technology (IT) with oil and gas disciplines, such as petroleum engineering, geology or geoscience. IT knowledge for a digital engineer can include: programming, networking, system architecture, and hardware. Digital engineers understand the capabilities, potential, and limitations of IT. They use this knowledge to develop high-tech systems that find and retrieve oil and gas. They also must understand oil and gas disciplines, such as petroleum engineering, to know where new technology is needed and the best way to develop and apply the technology. Some other names for this job are user support engineer, software engineer and engineering architect.