Senior Component Design Engineer – Bearings and Seals

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Component Design Engineer – Bearings and Seals

Working Pattern: Full Time

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

As a Senior Component Design Engineer for gas turbine bearings and seals, you will be part of the global Turbomachinery Engineering, Technology & Safety organization. You will develop complex engineering solutions that satisfy cutting-edge aerospace functional and physical requirements and exhibit robustness for manufacturing capability. As part of the ET&S Transmissions engineering team, you’ll be responsible for developing, assessing, and delivering high-performance gas turbine rolling element bearings and advanced aerospace seals that push the envelope with performance, life, and efficiency.  In addition, you’ll support capability growth of the local and global transmissions team as well as developing guidance and training materials associated with advanced bearings and gas turbine advanced sealing systems.

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

• Develop and deliver new component designs for high-performance gas turbine bearings and seals, which includes (but is not limited to) creating design concepts, optimizing concepts to a final definition, preparing technical presentations and documents, performing dimensional analyses, supporting creation of drawings, delivering hardware for validation, and release of hardware to production.
• Lead investigations of in-service and/or development hardware issues including failure analysis, root cause / corrective action (RCCA), reporting, and documentation. 
• Share findings with the global turbomachinery team in accordance with export control regulations.
• Present and defend design solutions and technical work to program leadership and other stakeholders.
• Perform strength and lifing analyses for gas turbine bearings and seals to substantiate suitability for new engine applications and extended performance of existing engines
• Advance the bearing and seal capability through research and technology, education, knowledge management, and consultation.
• Support the supply chain in procuring hardware including review of supplier production method documentation, assessment of non-conforming hardware, and review of supplier change proposals.
• Support manufacturing, assembly, service, and aftermarket issues promptly as they arise to keep production on target and the fleet in operation
• Lead investigations of in-service and/or development hardware issues including failure analysis, root cause / corrective action (RCCA), reporting, and documentation.  Share findings with the global turbomachinery team in accordance with export control regulations.

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 of Science degree in mechanical engineering, with 2+ years of experience in mechanical design, OR
• Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering, OR
• JD/PhD in Mechanical Engineering
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