Job Description

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 an Infrared Signature Engineering Specialist.

As an Infrared Signature Engineering Specialist, you will perform IR signature analysis of hot parts and plume of aircraft exhaust systems. This role supports the entire product life cycle, 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 using survivability analysis software (commercial, military, customer provided, and/or RR internal)
• Prepare and deliver analysis results in formal and informal design reviews, both internal and external (customer-facing)
• Perform infrared testing of exhaust systems in both ground and flight test environments
• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary engineering team for the design of low-observable IR exhaust systems (ex. infrared suppressors)

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
• To be considered for this opportunity, you must be eligible to obtain and maintain security clearance, which requires USA Citizenship

Preferred Qualifications:

• Electro-optics and/or IR analysis and modeling
• Survivability analysis and common industry toolsets
• Experience with IR test design and execution
• Experience with Thermofluid Systems analysis tools (SPAN, SC03, AMESim, Simscape, Fluent, STAR-CCM+, NPSS)
• Aerospace industry experience preferred
• Active security clearance (Secret or higher) beneficial but not required

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.

Global Grade/Level: GG10

Closing date: 03/17/2026

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Job Category

Mechanical Systems

Job Posting Date

03 Apr 2026; 00:04

Pay Range

$90,985 - $136,477-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.