Component Design Lead

Job Description

Job Title : Component Design Lead

Working Pattern : Full-time

Working location : Indianapolis, IN

The Component Design Lead for Project Alpha is responsible for ensuring that Rolls-Royce employs the technical expertise, processes and oversight for our products to meet the customer's functional, business and schedule requirements. This program is a significant new application of our AE product line.

The role will be filled by an engineer with relevant experience in gearbox component design and integration roles. The Technical Lead will provide guidance and oversite through the gated review processes for a team of managed engineers.

This leadership role is recognized as an authoritative source of technical expertise and advice within AE Engineering and is viewed as a key member of the broader team of technical expertise by senior capability leadership. The role represents a critical resource to the new design activity of the AE Defense engineering, taking an active role guiding and scrutinizing the technical approach, tools and results in the gearbox design.

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 :

Lead the technical engineering efforts for Project Alpha for both insourced and outsourced work packages.

Manage the clear capture of requirements, standards, tools and technical approval flow for the Project Alpha component and subsystem design (DTA reviews, SLARP1 reviews and approvals).

Coordinate with the Project Alpha Project Lead and Chief Design Engineers (Component and Functional) to plan, develop and release a superior design solution.

Lead the application of Systems Engineering to elicit, influence, and manage engine-level business and technical requirements and allocate requirements to sub-system level.

Represent the engine program in technical meetings with customers, operators, and airworthiness authorities.

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 STEM (Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or Computer Science) with 5+ mechanical design experience, OR

Master's degree in STEM (Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical or Computer Engineering) with 3+ years mechanical design experience, OR

PhD in degree in in Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical or Computer Engineering

To be eligible for consideration, you must be a U.S. Citizen

Preferred Requirements :

10+ years of gear train design and validation experience

Technical leadership of small to medium design teams

Experience with aerospace components and system certification

Experience with oil systems with regards to gear train lubrication

Skills dovetailing with project leads to ensure efficient use of resources to meet program completion dates

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 : October 31st, 2025

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Job Category Mechanical Systems Job Posting Date 16 Sep 2025; 00 : 09 Pay Range $110,476 - $179,524-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.