LibertyWorks Design Engineering Leader

Job Title: LibertyWorks Design Engineering Leader

Working Pattern:  Hybrid/Onsite

Working location:  Indianapolis, IN

This engineer leads a cross-discipline engineering team to specify and design mechanical and electrical hardware needed for advanced R&T technology projects. The leader is accountable for all aspects of hardware design, analysis, and definition, and support fabrication and test to deliver LibertyWorks' projects. In this role, the team leader ensures the component design meets project requirements from concept through 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.

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:

Here you’ll have opportunities to work on the following:

• Lead a team design and analysis engineers to deliver a compliant sub-system level solution to meet safety, technical, quality and delivery 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
• Create and document functional and physical interfaces with other component engineers.
• Develop hardware bill of material, and collaborate across teams to integrate with the project-level product structure and configuration.
• Engage with supply chain and manufacturing engineering to ensure designs are producible and available to meet program schedule objectives.
• Provide limits for engine and rig testing and supporting testing including assessment of test results and tested hardware.
• Ensure project risks (technical, cost, supply chain and timescale) are identified, managed (including integration of risk activities in the project plan) and escalated in accordance with the risk management plan.
• Develop technical presentations and associated technical reports in the delivery of solutions.

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 Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering with 5+ years’ experience, OR in mechanical, electrical or systems design, OR
• Master's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering with with 3+ years’ experience OR
• JD/PhD in Mechanical 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:

• Exceptional people and communication skills
• Familiarity using computer aided design tools such as NX
• Basic knowledge of Geometric Dimensions and Tolerances (GD&T), and the creation of limit stacks.
• Familiarity with generic design processes and design methods
• Some experience using finite element analysis tools (such as ANSYS Classic or Workbench)
• Programming skills such as Visual Basic, Matlab, Python, PERL, C++
• Understanding of engine assembly and testing

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 position

Job expires: 12/4/25

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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.