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Colonial has provided a wide range of opportunities for job candidates who are highly qualified, skilled, motivated and team players. Employees find exciting opportunities to grow and develop their careers at a stable company which offers a generous compensation and benefits package that includes annual incentive bonuses, retirement plans, insurance coverage and a host of other features that support a happy, active, productive and rewarding life. Come to Colonial, a great place to work, where people matter most, and where safety 24/7 is paramount.
Ready to work for Colonial Pipeline Company?
Are you intrigued by the thought of being part of revolutionizing the energy industry and a new era in the pipeline industry? Do you want to be a part of a company that is obsessed with excellence in everything we do? A company growing and expanding our business that is full of opportunity? If so, we are seeking smart, safety focused, and energetic professionals to join our team to help us to the next level of excellence!
What is it that we do at Colonial Pipeline Company?
Colonial Pipeline is the largest refined products pipeline in the United States, transporting more than 100 million gallons or 2.5 million barrels per day. Colonial transports various grades of gasoline, diesel fuel, home heating oil, jet fuel, and fuels for the U.S. military through a pipeline system. Colonial transports approximately 45 percent of all fuel consumed on the East Coast, providing refined products to more than 50 million Americans.
About Field Engineer (Associate, Staff or Senior) Position
This position may be filled at the Associate, Engineer, Staff or Senior level depending on the candidate pool.
As a Field Engineer, you will provide engineering technical expertise, leadership, and engineering analysis to complete a wide variety of engineering assignments. You will apply engineering techniques and analyses to improve pipeline and facility safety, reliability, and efficiency. The Field Engineer recognizes and addresses the health and safety hazards involved with the performance of assigned duties within different environments throughout the pipeline system. You will work with various work groups to ensure compliance with Colonial standards, specifications, practices and/or processes.
What You Get to Do:
- Perform assigned technical analysis/design work with minimal guidance or oversight
- Coordinate design work with designers, drafters, and other engineers.
- Monitor vendor equipment testing at the factory for Colonial acceptance at field locations.
- Identify, analyze, and resolve equipment issues with assistance from Local and Control Center Operations.
- Review and approve design drawings, technical analysis, nitrogen push and drain up calculations, blasting plans and/or construction specifications for quality, accuracy, and completeness
- Review equipment installations and/or applicable construction work in the field.
- Collaborate on Preventive Maintenance activities on Colonial’s pipeline system.
What You Bring to the Table:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering discipline from an accredited college or university; will consider a combination of experience and/or education.
- Ideally, 3+ years of engineering experience with approximately 1+ years of engineering experience in oil/gas or related industry.
- Ability to travel up to 30% of the time and drive for company business.
- Skilled at critical and analytical thinking, time management, present information effectively, detail oriented and ability to be focused.
- Awareness of Oil/Gas related codes and standards (API, ASME, CFR Part 195, etc.)
- Awareness of general industry codes and standards (ANSI, IEEE, ASME, NFPA, NEMA, NESC, PSM, etc.).
- Technical understanding of Engineering Design and Technical Analysis (multiple discipline interface, etc.).
- Commitment to consistently adhere to policies and procedures and be a positive example for others by demonstrating the Company’s core values of Respect, Accountability, Innovation, Safety, and Excellence in completing work assignments.
- Self-motivated, have phenomenal work ethic and looking for the right company to support your growth.
Got Extra to Bring?
- Ideally, 5+ years of liquid pipeline, oil, gas industry experience.
- Ideally, 3+ years of Colonial Pipeline experience.
- Certified Professional Engineering (EIT or PE).
Advantages of Working at Colonial Pipeline Company:
Prosperity, Health, Wellness, and Happiness – Check out Colonial’s Total Rewards
Are you up to the challenge? What are you waiting for? Apply today!
Colonial Pipeline is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other reason prohibited by federal, state or local law.
Statement to all Third-Party Agencies and Similar Organizations:
Colonial Pipeline accepts resumes only from agencies with which we formally engage their services. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Colonial Pipeline employees, hiring managers, or send to any Colonial Pipeline facility. Colonial Pipeline is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.
Colonial has provided a wide range of opportunities for job candidates who are highly qualified, skilled, motivated and team players. Employees find exciting opportunities to grow and develop their careers at a stable company which offers a generous compensation and benefits package that includes annual incentive bonuses, retirement plans, insurance coverage and a host of other features that support a happy, active, productive and rewarding life. Come to Colonial, a great place to work, where people matter most, and where safety 24/7 is paramount.
Ready to work for Colonial Pipeline Company?
Are you intrigued by the thought of being part of revolutionizing the energy industry and a new era in the pipeline industry? Do you want to be a part of a company that is obsessed with excellence in everything we do? A company growing and expanding our business that is full of opportunity? If so, we are seeking smart, safety focused, and energetic professionals to join our team to help us to the next level of excellence!
What is it that we do at Colonial Pipeline Company?
Colonial Pipeline is the largest refined products pipeline in the United States, transporting more than 100 million gallons or 2.5 million barrels per day. Colonial transports various grades of gasoline, diesel fuel, home heating oil, jet fuel, and fuels for the U.S. military through a pipeline system. Colonial transports approximately 45 percent of all fuel consumed on the East Coast, providing refined products to more than 50 million Americans.
About Field Engineer (Associate, Staff or Senior) Position
This position may be filled at the Associate, Engineer, Staff or Senior level depending on the candidate pool.
As a Field Engineer, you will provide engineering technical expertise, leadership, and engineering analysis to complete a wide variety of engineering assignments. You will apply engineering techniques and analyses to improve pipeline and facility safety, reliability, and efficiency. The Field Engineer recognizes and addresses the health and safety hazards involved with the performance of assigned duties within different environments throughout the pipeline system. You will work with various work groups to ensure compliance with Colonial standards, specifications, practices and/or processes.
What You Get to Do:
- Perform assigned technical analysis/design work with minimal guidance or oversight
- Coordinate design work with designers, drafters, and other engineers.
- Monitor vendor equipment testing at the factory for Colonial acceptance at field locations.
- Identify, analyze, and resolve equipment issues with assistance from Local and Control Center Operations.
- Review and approve design drawings, technical analysis, nitrogen push and drain up calculations, blasting plans and/or construction specifications for quality, accuracy, and completeness
- Review equipment installations and/or applicable construction work in the field.
- Collaborate on Preventive Maintenance activities on Colonial’s pipeline system.
What You Bring to the Table:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering discipline from an accredited college or university; will consider a combination of experience and/or education.
- Ideally, 3+ years of engineering experience with approximately 1+ years of engineering experience in oil/gas or related industry.
- Ability to travel up to 30% of the time and drive for company business.
- Skilled at critical and analytical thinking, time management, present information effectively, detail oriented and ability to be focused.
- Awareness of Oil/Gas related codes and standards (API, ASME, CFR Part 195, etc.)
- Awareness of general industry codes and standards (ANSI, IEEE, ASME, NFPA, NEMA, NESC, PSM, etc.).
- Technical understanding of Engineering Design and Technical Analysis (multiple discipline interface, etc.).
- Commitment to consistently adhere to policies and procedures and be a positive example for others by demonstrating the Company’s core values of Respect, Accountability, Innovation, Safety, and Excellence in completing work assignments.
- Self-motivated, have phenomenal work ethic and looking for the right company to support your growth.
Got Extra to Bring?
- Ideally, 5+ years of liquid pipeline, oil, gas industry experience.
- Ideally, 3+ years of Colonial Pipeline experience.
- Certified Professional Engineering (EIT or PE).
Advantages of Working at Colonial Pipeline Company:
Prosperity, Health, Wellness, and Happiness – Check out Colonial’s Total Rewards
Are you up to the challenge? What are you waiting for? Apply today!
Colonial Pipeline is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other reason prohibited by federal, state or local law.
Statement to all Third-Party Agencies and Similar Organizations:
Colonial Pipeline accepts resumes only from agencies with which we formally engage their services. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Colonial Pipeline employees, hiring managers, or send to any Colonial Pipeline facility. Colonial Pipeline is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.
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Who's Hiring
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory13
- State of Nevada5
- Shure2
- Pennoni2
- Ampirical2
Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services
- Electronics & Hardware
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in associate staff engineer jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
- Four or more years of professional software development experience
- Proficiency in at least one systems or backend language such as Go, Java, or C++
- Experience designing distributed systems or large-scale service architectures
- Demonstrated ability to mentor junior engineers and lead code reviews
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and infrastructure-as-code tooling
Tips for Your Associate Staff Engineer Job Search
Tailor your resume to scope signals
Associate staff engineer postings often weight cross-team impact over individual output. Rewrite your bullet points to show how your work unblocked other engineers or reduced toil for a whole squad, not just your own ticket velocity.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists associate staff engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Show system design depth in your portfolio
Hiring panels at this level expect design artifacts, not just code. Add a public write-up or slide deck of one architecture decision you owned, the tradeoffs you weighed, and the outcome your team measured.
Filter by team size before you apply
An associate staff title at a ten-person startup carries different expectations than the same title at a thousand-person company. Read the job description for team headcount or org structure clues so you pitch yourself against the right benchmark.
Prepare a cross-functional influence story
Interviewers for staff-track roles consistently probe how you work with product managers and designers, not just other engineers. Rehearse one concrete example where you shaped a product direction through technical reasoning, not authority.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
At the associate staff level, the team you join and the problem area you own matter as much as pay. When you get an offer, ask directly which projects you would lead in the first six months and who the key stakeholders are.
Associate Staff Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most associate staff engineers?
The companies hiring the most associate staff engineers right now include MIT Lincoln Laboratory, State of Nevada, and Shure, with the largest share of openings in Massachusetts, Nevada, and Georgia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially concentrated in companies scaling their platform or infrastructure organizations.
How many associate staff engineer jobs are remote?
About 0% of associate staff engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong demand for distributed teams in this role. Platform engineering, developer tooling, and backend infrastructure sub-areas tend to have the highest share of remote-eligible positions compared to embedded or hardware-adjacent roles.
How do you become an associate staff engineer?
Most engineers reach the associate staff level by consistently delivering projects with cross-team scope rather than narrowly scoped individual tasks. Building that path means seeking out work that requires coordinating multiple engineers, writing technical design documents that others rely on, and gathering feedback from staff or principal engineers at your company on how your influence reads outside your immediate team.
Can you get hired as an associate staff engineer with little experience?
It is uncommon to land an associate staff engineer role without several years of professional experience, but candidates who have led meaningful open-source projects, shipped production systems with broad impact, or held a staff-equivalent title at a smaller company often make a compelling case. The key is demonstrating cross-team technical judgment in your resume and interviews, not just individual coding ability.
What does the associate staff engineer interview process look like?
The process typically includes a recruiter screen, one or two technical phone rounds focused on coding or system design, and a full onsite or virtual loop with a system design interview, a cross-functional collaboration discussion, and sometimes a presentation of past technical work. At this level, system design and behavioral rounds carry more weight than pure algorithmic coding exercises.
Where can I find and apply to associate staff engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to associate staff engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from companies across the United States. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your background and interests, and apply directly to each listing from the page.
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