System Design Integration Engineering Specialist

Job Title: System Design Integration Engineering Specialist

Working Pattern: Full time

Working location: Indianapolis, IN/Hybrid – (3 Office Days/Week)

We’re looking for a System Design Engineer to join our growing team. This is an exciting opportunity to work on flagship RR programs and play an important role in addressing some of the most complex and interesting technological challenges in Defense.

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:

As an SDI engineer, you will work closely with the program Assistant Chief Design Engineer (ACDE), Chief Verification Engineer (CVV) and Chief Design Engineer (CDE) to support the delivery of whole system functionality.

In this role, you will coordinate activities across stakeholders to define, manage, and integrate systems, subsystems and components in compliance with customer requirements.  You will build engineering and architecture models to inform key technical decisions and ensure robust system integration.

Who we’re looking for:

• Optimize the functional and physical interactions within a prototype demonstrator module and with the customer platform
• Apply systems engineering and robust design tools and techniques to reduce ambiguity and resolve technical problems
• Mature the design and integration of products, systems, and components in accordance with program milestones
• Develop math models of functional systems, and ensure system-level design functionality within the project design process
• Define and verify requirements for products, systems, and components
• Lead systems engineering project teams under the guidance of a chief engineer to deliver technical solutions
• Provide mentorship to junior systems engineers to grow the overall business capability
• Manage stakeholder relationships and expectations internally and externally
• Supports the development and execution of the strategy with respect to their specialty
• Leads the resolution of new and emerging technical, compliance and business problems using analytical processes and professional judgement
• Provides technical direction to peers and more junior professionals, and technical leadership to teams and projects within their specialty

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, systems or aerospace engineering with 5+ years of experience, OR
• Master’s degree in mechanical, electrical, systems or aerospace engineering with 3+ years of experience, OR
• JD/PhD in mechanical, electrical, systems or aerospace engineering
• To be considered for this role, you must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a high-level security clearance

Preferred Requirements:

• Previous experience leading systems engineering projects and/or teams in the aerospace or automotive industries
• Familiarity with relational databases such as Cameo or DOORS
• Willingness to learn and apply Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) techniques to capture structural, behavioral, parametric and requirement aspects of the system
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Ability to mentor less experienced systems engineers
• Strong personal initiative and ability to drive tasks to conclusion on schedule
• Experience managing external and senior internal stakeholders
• Ability to manage work in a hybrid environment
• Active US DOD security clearance preferred

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.

Relocation assistance is available for this position.

Global Grade/Level: Level C

Closing date: 11/10/2025

Mechanical Systems $110,476 - $179,524-Annually 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.