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Job Title: Component Design Engineer: Turbomachinery - Cold End Design (Fans, Compressors, and Rotatives)

Working Pattern: Full Time

Working location: Indianapolis, IN

As a Component Design Engineer for gas turbine Turbomachinery components you will be part of the global Engineering, Technology & Safety (ET&S) Turbomachinery organization. You will develop complex engineering solutions that satisfy cutting-edge aerospace functional and physical requirements and exhibit robustness for manufacturing capability. Within your assigned propulsion system program, you'll be responsible for developing, assessing, and delivering high-performance gas turbine turbomachinery components that push the envelope with performance, life, and efficiency.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

Rolls-Royce has been recognized as the top employer in the Engineering & Manufacturing category on the prestigious Forbes Top Employers for Engineers list for 2025. This ranking highlights our commitment to innovation, employee development, and fostering a collaborative environment where engineers can thrive.

Be part of a team that sets the industry standard and drives groundbreaking solutions.

At Rolls-Royce, we are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We foster a welcoming and innovative work environment that invests in you, giving you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

Rolls-Royce is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristics.

What you will be doing

With this attractive opportunity you will get a chance to:

• Create component design definition in accordance with module, system, and customer interface requirements.
• Deliver new component designs and design changes within the Design Technical Approval (DTA) Process, which includes (but is not limited to) creating design concepts, optimizing concepts to a final definition, preparing technical presentations and documents, supporting creation of drawings, delivering hardware for validation, and release of hardware to the field.
• Review component requirements for their responsible sub-system's hardware. Develop and execute validation plans to demonstrate compliance to the requirements.
• Provide engineering support of service and/or development related hardware issues including Engine Investigations (EI) and Technical Variance (TV) consultation.
• Address manufacturing, assembly, in-field, and aftermarket issues as they arise.
• Support the supply chain in procuring hardware from multiple suppliers including concession consultation and execution of Drawing Alteration Requests (DARs).
• Participate in Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) teams.

Who we're looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

Basic Requirements:

• A Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering with 1+ years of experience in mechanical design OR;
• A Master's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering OR;
• JD/PHD in Engineering.
• To be considered for this opportunity, you must be a US Citizen.

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience working with Siemens NX, Teamcenter and/or ANSYS Workbench.
• Experience with the definition release process and GD&T.
• Experience with computer programming (i.e. Python, Matlab, Visual Basic, and/or C++), design optimization, and robust design techniques.
• Experience working with manufacturing and/or quality, especially with regards to the assessment of non-conforming hardware.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It's a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we're all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

For fully remote roles, employees can live in any state except Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, Vermont, and Wyoming.

Relocation assistance is available for this position.

Closing date: July 13, 2026

Benefits

Rolls-Royce provides a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package that includes base pay and a discretionary bonus plan. Eligible employees may have the opportunity to enroll in other benefits, including health, dental, vision, disability, life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance; a flexible spending account; a health savings account; a 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match; Employee Assistance Program; Paid Time Off; certain paid holidays; paid parental and family care leave; tuition reimbursement; and a long-term incentive plan. The options available to an employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as date of hire, employment type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.