P7P7 — Staff / Distinguished Professional
Subsea Engineering P7–P8
Shape corporate technical vision for subsea engineering.
What this level means
Staff-level individual contributor: owns architecture across systems, sets technical direction, and multiplies the output of multiple teams without managing people.
- Scope
- Cross-organization / enterprise technical strategy
- Autonomy
- Operates autonomously at the enterprise level
- Complexity
- Industry-level, highly ambiguous problems
- Impact
- Enterprise-wide
- Decision rights
- Final technical authority across multiple domains
- Leadership
- Sets technical direction org-wide; develops principals
- Typical experience
- 15–22 yrs
What you'd do
- Engage in cross-industry collaboration
- Oversee the most critical projects
- Collaborate across industries
- Oversee critical projects
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Cross-industry collaboration
- Project oversight
- Corporate technical vision
- Industry collaboration
- Visionary leadership
- Organizational influence
What good looks like
- 20+ years in engineering leadership
- Chief Engineer or Principal Fellow titles
Common titles
Staff Subsea EngineeringDistinguished Subsea EngineeringStaff Subsea EngineerDistinguished Subsea EngineerSubsea Engineering P7–P8Principal/Fellow
Where it sits & what it pays
O*NET / SOC: 17-0000 — Architecture & Engineering Occupations(inferred · under review)
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are coming — JobFrame anchors pay to the family/level structure rather than the raw title.