Rolls-Royce plc

System Safety & Reliability Engineer Specialist

Rolls-Royce plc$122K — $199K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's in Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering, or JD/PhD
  • 5+ years in engineering with knowledge of statistics and systems engineering
  • Experience in product safety and reliability analysis
  • Strong understanding of failure mechanisms and degradation
  • Must be a US citizen or permanent resident

Responsibilities

  • Serve as System Safety Lead during New Product Introductions
  • Analyze product degradation and failure mechanisms
  • Develop models for product safety and reliability analysis
  • Evaluate design solutions for safety impacts
  • Lead and coach System Safety & Reliability tasks

Benefits

  • Bonus and discretionary bonus plan
  • Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Flexible work arrangement with hybrid options
Full Job Description
Job Description

Job Title: System Safety & Reliability Engineer Specialist

Working Pattern: Fulltime

Working location: Indianapolis, IN

System Safety & Reliability Engineering ensures that the safety and reliability attributes of our products are understood, and risks are managed to an acceptable level.

This role involves the integration of diverse areas of technical knowledge to create and support complex systems operating under highly challenging conditions. In this position you will support our engineering products throughout their life cycle; working with Design, System, and Service Engineers to ensure our products meet company, customer, and regulatory requirements.

What you will be doing

With this attractive opportunity you will get a chance to:

  • Serve as the System Safety Lead during New Product Introduction coordinating at all levels within the product program team. Find the solutions that matter to our customers through understanding the solution space that influences the product lifecycle.
  • Understand the product's degradation and failure mechanisms, associated consequences, with the aim to eliminate or reduce product hazards. Develop models that characterize these mechanisms using deterministic or probabilistic/data mining techniques.
  • Assess new and derivative design solutions, product operation and maintenance practices to evaluate the impact on product safety and reliability. Develop and deploy models at component, system, asset, and fleet levels to characterize product safety and reliability. Support the associated part/function classification activities.
  • Support product development and new product introduction phases through Safety & Reliability Engineering analysis and documentation (e.g. FHA, FMECA, System Safety Assessment, Human Factors, etc.).
  • Lead and coach System Safety & Reliability tasks. Provide technical task leadership / consulting to System Safety & Reliability Engineers. Develop S&R methods and tools for the global function.


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, OR
  • Master's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering, OR
  • JD/PhD
  • To be considered for this role, you must be a US Citizen


Preferred Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in an Engineering Discipline with 5+ years' experience with knowledge of statistics and systems engineering OR
  • Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Applied Statistics or Actuarial Science with 5+ years' experience with a passion to apply it to product safety and reliability OR
  • Master's degree in Reliability Engineering and 3+ years' experience.
  • You must be a US citizen or permanent resident


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 assistance is available for this position.

Closing date: June 30, 2026

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Job Category

Engineering for Services

Job Posting Date

09 Jun 2026; 00:06

Pay Range

$122,741 - $199,454-Annually

Location:

Indianapolis, 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.

About Rolls-Royce plc

Rolls-Royce plc is a British multinational engineering company that designs, manufactures, and distributes power systems for aviation, marine, and energy markets. The company was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in London, England. Rolls-Royce is a leading provider of power systems for civil and military aircraft, and is also a major supplier of power systems for marine vessels. The company's energy division provides power systems for the oil and gas industry, as well as for power generation and other industrial applications. Rolls-Royce has operations in over 50 countries and employs over 50,000 people worldwide.
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