Controls Systems Engineer - Customer Integration Lead

Job Title: Controls Systems Engineer - Customer Integration Lead

Working Pattern: Full-time

Working location: Indianapolis, IN

As the Controls Systems Engineer - Customer Integration Lead for the Advanced Control and Monitoring System (ACaMS) product family, you will be responsible for leading the customer interface to our control system development. This means working with internal and external customers to ensure that their requirements and deliverable expectations are captured and delivered to the control system development team, and also working with the customer to define the product interfaces between the engine control system and the aircraft systems that interface with it.

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

With this attractive opportunity you will get a chance to:

• Define aircraft interfaces in collaboration with aircraft customer, whole engine engineers, and control system component engineers
• Drive planning for and compliance to customer and engine-level gate reviews, ensuring control system definition and lifecycle documentation meets the progression criteria
• Define control system requirements at multiple levels of the requirements hierarchy, ensuring traceability, validation & verification coverage, and safety considerations are appropriately documented
• Develop the integration plan of the engine control and monitoring system with the whole engine and airframe, ensuring verification and integration efforts show compliance to contractual standards and objectives
• Act as primary technical liaison with whole-engine program (internal customers) and aircraft development team (external customers) for control system topics, engaging internal team to support those discussions and deliverables
• Collaborate to provide technical guidance, counsel and direction to a small team of engineers, assisting in technical judgments and supporting resource planning

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 an Engineering discipline with 5+ years of experience in control systems, OR
• Master's degree in an Engineering discipline with 3+ years of experience in control systems, OR
• PhD in an Engineering discipline
• In order to be considered for this opportunity, you must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DoD Security Clearance

Preferred Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in control systems
• Experience with and application of agile development methods for product development.
• Gas turbine engine controls experience or propulsion control system experience a plus
• Experience with FAA and/or US military certification of airborne systems.
• Demonstrated experience with control system design and analysis tools.
• Experience using CAMEO and/or IBM DOORS

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:   July 14th , 2025

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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.