Prognostics & Health Management (PHM) Data Engineer - LiftSystem

Job Description

Job Title: Prognostics & Health Management (PHM) Data Engineer - LiftSystem

Working Pattern: Full time

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

The Rolls-Royce LiftSystem EHM-SDI team is seeking a skilled Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain data infrastructure that powers Prognostics & Health Management (PHM) capability for F35B LiftSystem. This role will ensure that critical health data is captured, stored, and made accessible for analytics, machine learning models, and decision-making systems. You will be responsible for database design, performance optimization, data quality assurance, and integration with other system. This is a highly technical role that includes data engineering, data pipeline development, and data analysis and visualization to support predictive maintenance and fleet health monitoring.

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

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and secure database system for PHM data.
• Optimize database performance, query speed, and storage efficiency.
• Build ETS (Extract, Transform, Load) pipeline to establish automated data and file exchange capabilities for all PHM data.
• Ensure seamless integration between OHM databases and analytics/visualization tools.
• Manage ongoing relationship with Rolls-Royce IT with respect to enterprise systems and LiftSystem-specific systems supported by the IT.
• Provide technical advice on data architecture and database technologies to broader PHM capability.
• Develop and implement data validation strategies to ensure accuracy and consistency.

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:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering and 2+ years of experience in PHM/EHM system design, data analysis, data engineering, software development, OR
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• Must be U.S. Citizen to be considered for this opportunity

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience in working on production database systems, database design, administration and data engineering
• Strong proficiency in SQL and relational database management systems
• Familiarity with time-series data and its processing/storage
• Experience building ETL data pipelines using tools such as Python
• Knowledge of cloud services is a plus 
• Knowledge of API development for data access
• Familiarity with PHM, experience with big data platforms, exposure to ML workflows

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