Job Title: F130 Development Engineer

Working Pattern:  Hybrid/ Onsite in office 3 days/week

Working location:  Indianapolis, IN

As an F130 Development Engineer you will be responsible for providing technical support to a multi-functional integrated product team (IPT), applying a systems engineering approach to create new systems or modify existing ones. The Development Engineer will define, plan, monitor, control and deliver managed change (including new solutions) to meet all agreed stakeholder requirements in addition to planning and delivering verification programs to ensure that Rolls-Royce's products meet business, customer and regulatory requirements.

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.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives 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:

• Prepare cost and schedule estimates, manage project control accounts, and support development engine/sub-system build and test activities.
• This position will plan, manage, and develop engine/sub-system certification/qualification plans and participate in product introduction gated reviews allocate requirements to major sub-systems.
• Ensure project risks (technical, cost, supply chain and timescale) are identified, managed (including integration of risk activities in project plan), and escalated in accordance with risk management plan.
• Understand experiment/test requirements and turn them into test schedules and subsequently test instructions.
• Responsible for managing manufacturing or engineering subcontracts for design-make components and coordinating experiments (rig, engine and/or flight testing) including instrumentation and data analysis requirements.
• Define the necessary resource to achieve stakeholder requirements, and negotiate with resource managers, in conjunction with Work Package Manager (WPO) and Sub-System Manager (SSM), and Integrated Product Team Lead (IPTL) to balance load and capacity across the IPT.

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:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and 2 + year of experience in Validation & Verification in Engineering and Project Management Experience; OR
• Master’s Degree in Engineering; OR
• JD/PhD in engineering
• In order to be considered for this opportunity, you must be eligible to obtain and maintain security clearance, which requires USA Citizenship

Preferred:

• Function Management Engineering Experience
• Experience leading or managing a team for execution of a program or in support of a functional skillset 
• 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
• An excellent command of the English language for both written and oral communications
• Familiarity with external customer interfaces, engine assembly, and testing experience at a system level. 

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 is available for this role if appropriate

Job expires: 5/27/26

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Validation and Verification13 May 2026; 00:05$94,160- $153,010-AnnuallyIndianapolis, 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.