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Job Title: AE Defense Turbo-Machinery Design Engineer

Working Pattern: Full-time

Working location: Indianapolis, IN

AE Defense Turbo-Machinery Design Engineer will work primarily with the components within the Compressor & Turbine subsystems with special attention to compressor and turbine wheels to design, produce, and test components and mechanical systems. In this role, the candidate ensures the component definition meets project requirements from concept through to demonstration test.

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.

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.

Key Accountabilities:

• Create innovative design solutions to achieve technical and business requirements
• Create component requirements documents for owned hardware and hardware design concepts and perform trade studies to optimize hardware
• Carry out analyses using formula-based calculations and/or automated workflows for dimensioning of parts and components (e.g. stability, stiffness, profiles, balance point, weights) and where appropriate, using analytical rules, tools and methods to underwrite the design solution against requirements
• Support creation of detailed drawings and model based definition and support project/manufacturing to procure conforming hardware
• Provide limits for engine and rig testing and supporting testing including assessment of test results and tested hardware
• Develop solutions for dispositioning non-conforming hardware in production and aftermarket
• Develop technical presentations and associated technical reports in the delivery of solutions
• Create and review functional and physical interfaces and generate analysis requirements for components
• Provide input for component level risks and complete DFMEA and risk assessments for owned components

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 Qualifications:

• Bachelors in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering with 2+ years of design experience
• Masters Degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering
• PhD in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering
• Experience using computer aided design tools such as NX

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with gas turbines (blades, vanes, wheels, casings) component and sub-system design, including materials, dynamics, and aerothermal methods
• An ability to apply logical, analytical and innovative thinking on a range of technical problems and make balanced decisions across technical and business parameters
• Experience using computer aided design tools such as NX
• Experience with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), and the creation of limit stacks
• Experience with generic design processes as well as component specific design guidance
• Familiarity with manufacturing processes
• Knowledge and experience of product integrity / liability and certification frameworks
• Good communication and presentation skills at all levels of the organization
• Familiarity with engine assembly and testing
• Familiarity with gas turbine compressor & turbine wheel design and analysis methods
• Experience using finite element analysis tools (such as ANSYS)
• Programming skills such as Visual Basic, Matlab, Python, PERL, C++ and/or computational tools such as Matlab
• Exceptional interpersonal skills to work effectively in a team environment; willingness to accept responsibility and take initiative; and drive to finish assigned tasks on schedule
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

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.

Job Category

Mechanical Systems

Job Posting Date

15 Jun 2026; 00:06

Pay Range

$78,918 - $128,242-Annually

Location:

Indianapolis, IN

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.