Job Title: Helo/T56 V&V Engineer
Working Pattern: Onsite/Hybrid
Working location: Indianapolis, IN
The Systems Engineering and Verification 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
Interface between external and internal customers, to elicit and validate all stakeholder requirements including business, technical customers and partners.
Create an appropriate Enterprise Architecture solution which serves both business and technical needs.
Set the Systems Engineering and Verification approach for an Engineering Program through the relevant management plan (i.e. Configuration Management Plan).
Establish / manage appropriate (Requirements, Design Rationale Evidence, Design Definition and Verification Information) R-E-D-V structure that joins information across all areas involved (Customer, Business, System, Sub-System and Component) for the project.
Ensure sufficient rigor is put into requirements validation and verification, to remove technical risk.
Ensure R-E-D-V health data reports from Validation and Verification activities is used to drive the engineering program schedule and to remove technical risk
Develop product verification strategy, structured verification plan and Product Development Plan
Define and deliver robust certification and qualification strategies (for organizations which are design authority).
Manage the creation of substantiation evidence, clearance/acceptance documentation that meets the demand for the project.
Extract Manufacturing/Installation/ Test and Commissioning requirements from the engineering teams
Define configuration hardware requirements to satisfy verification activities
Be the point of contact with the project to support and coach the team regarding Systems Engineering, Validation and Verification activities, driving the right V&V behaviors within the project.
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.
Required qualifications:
A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with 2+ years of related experience – OR -
A Master’s degree in Engineering - OR -
JD/PhD in Engineering
In order to be considered for this opportunity, you must be a US Citizen
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.
Salary Range: $90,985 - $136,477
Relocation is available for this position
Job Posting Expires: 6/23/25
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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.