Infrared Signature Engineering Specialist

Job Title: Infrared Signature Engineering Specialist

Working Pattern: Full Time

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

We have a great opportunity for a talented engineer to join the Rolls-Royce LibertyWorks team as Infrared Signature Engineering Specialists.

As the Infrared Signature Engineering Specialist, you will perform IR signature analysis of hot parts and plume of aircraft exhaust systems. The role supports the entire product lifecycle from concept generation and evaluation to in-service support.

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

• Perform infrared analysis of fixed and rotary wing aircraft, missiles, marine craft, and associated propulsion systems (Airframes and exhaust plumes) with requisite survivability codes (commercial, military, customer provided, and/or RR internal. Prepare and deliver analysis results in formal and informal design reviews
• Perform infrared testing of above exhaust systems utilizing IR camera hardware in both ground and flight test environments
• Design low observable IR exhaust systems for above referenced platforms
• Apply systems engineering concepts to define whole engine fluid systems and support resolution of system-level issues.   This will include working together with other engineers in Thermofluids, Engine Performance, Controls, Installations, Turbines, Compressors, Combustion, and Power Transmission Systems
• Contribute to your team by defining and completing technical work packages to meet customer requirements, evaluating technologies, implementing systems engineering approaches, assisting junior engineers, and identifying and/or developing new and better approaches to the infrared signature design/analysis processes and guides

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 Engineering, Physics or Mathematics along with 2+ years of experience in IR signature design/analysis, thermodynamics, gas dynamics, fluid mechanics and/or engine design, OR
• Master’s degree in Engineering, Physics or Mathematics, OR
• JD/PhD
• Proficiency in computer programming language such as FORTRAN, Visual Basic, and/or C++
• To be considered for this opportunity, you must be eligible to obtain and maintain security clearance, which requires USA Citizenship

Qualifications:

• Experience in Infrared analysis of hot parts and plumes of aircraft exhaust systems
• Experience with survivability analysis and common industry toolsets
• Experience with gas turbine engine exhaust analysis
• Experience in thermodynamics, gas dynamics, fluid mechanics and/or engine design
• Experience in performing and reviewing heat transfer/thermals modelling and analysis
• Experience in gas turbine secondary air system, oil system, fuel system or thermal management system design, modeling, and analysis.
• Experience with Thermofluid Systems analysis tools (SPAN, SC03, AMESim, Simscape, Fluent, STAR-CCM+, NPSS)
• Experience with workflow automation (Preliminary System Design and/or Component Design Systems)

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.

Relocation assistance is available for this position.

Global Grade/Level: GG10

Closing date: June 20, 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.