Local Specialist Development Engineer, FLRAA 1107F

Job Description

Job Title: Development Engineer, FLRAA 1107F

Working Pattern: Onsite/Hybrid

Working location:  Indianapolis, IN

The Development Engineer is responsible for ensuring that Rolls-Royce has sufficient oversight for our products to meet business, customer and regulatory requirements. It covers engineers who are performing Development, Systems Engineering and Verification style roles. This is an integration role where the individual will work to enable all engineering teams through coaching and support to successfully develop robust, verified engineering solutions against robust validated customer 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.

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:

In this role, you will be working with the Rolls-Royce Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) propulsion system for the US Army. As a FLRAA Development Engineer with Rolls-Royce, you will be responsible to provide programmatic leadership in coordination of the cross-functional product team designing, testing, and certification of the AE 1107F engine. This role will also require supporting customer engagements, Program Management of Systems Engineering projects, and/or Installed Verification testing.

Here, you’ll work alongside the Development Engineering Tech Lead to take the Product Verification Strategy and determine what verification tasks and experiments are required to satisfy the strategy.  You will also define experiment definition, instrumentation, development hardware requirements for test to ensure the right validated test data is extracted from experimental build, test and strip to support product validation and verification. 

• Lead conversations between external and internal customers, to elicit and validate all stakeholder requirements including business, technical customers and partners. ​
• Develop the Systems Engineering and Verification strategy/approach for an Engineering Program across the entire lifecycle and ensure this is reflected in project governance and the project master schedule.
• This position will plan, manage, and develop engine/sub-system certification/qualification plans and present product introduction gated reviews, and allocate requirements to major sub-systems.
• Lead the development of product verification strategies, structured verification plans and Product Development Plans
• Leads the creation of substantiation evidence, clearance/acceptance documentation that meets the demand for the project.
• Understand experiment/test requirements and turn them into test plans, budgets, schedules and subsequently test instructions. Understand and articulate risks and opportunities to program leadership to support decision making.
• Lead integration activities between project teams and test to ensure instrumentation, controls, data acquisition, test limits, and test data recording are completed. Support on-site and off-site development engine/sub-system build and test activities.

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.

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