System Safety & Reliability Engineer

Rolls-Royce plc; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 73,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) retirement plan with company-m

Employee Assistance Program

Paid Time Off

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Rolls-Royce plc seeks a System Safety & Reliability Engineer in Indianapolis, IN, to join a team focused on understanding and mitigating safety and reliability risks across complex systems. You will model degradation, run probabilistic assessments, and support development activities to ensure safe operation under challenging conditions.

The role requires a STEM degree with 1+ years of experience and US citizenship.

Qualifications

• Bachelor/Master/PhD in Mathematics, Actuarial Science, or Engineering required, with 1+ years of experience preferred.
• US citizenship required to be considered for this role.

Responsibilities

• Understand degradation and failure mechanisms and associated consequences to eliminate or reduce hazards.
• Develop models of mechanisms using deterministic, probabilistic, or data-mining techniques.
• Assess design solutions and maintenance to evaluate safety and reliability impact.
• Develop and deploy models at component, system, asset, and fleet levels for safety and reliability.
• Support classification activities for parts and functions.
• Support safety/reliability engineering analyses in development and in-service phases (FHA, FMECA, System Safety Assessments).
• Support FRACAS and reliability initiatives throughout product lifecycle.

Skills

Team collaboration

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor/Master/PhD in Mathematics, Actuarial Science, or Engineering

Tools

Weibull++

XFMEA

XFRACAS

@RISK

Reliability Workbench

Job description

System Safety & Reliability Engineer

Working Pattern: Fulltime. Working location: Indianapolis, IN.

As a System Safety & Reliability Engineer, you’ll be part of a team that ensures the safety and reliability attributes of our products are understood and risks are managed to an acceptable level. This role involves the integration of diverse areas of knowledge to create and support complex systems that enable reliable system operation under highly challenging conditions. Tasks include mathematical modeling of complex systems, probabilistic safety assessments, and hazard assessments; extracting actionable insights to improve our products. We apply multi-domain engineering knowledge for components and systems, detailing failure mechanisms and their system effects.

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.

What you will be doing

• Understanding the product's degradation and failure mechanisms, associated consequences, with the aim to eliminate or reduce product hazards.
• Develop models that characterize these mechanisms using deterministic or probabilistic/data mining techniques.
• Assess new and derivative design solutions, product operation and maintenance practices to evaluate the impact on product safety and reliability.
• Develop and deploy models at component, system, asset, and fleet levels to characterize product safety and reliability.
• Support the associated part/function classification activities.
• Support product development and new product introduction phases through Safety & Reliability Engineering analysis and documentation (e.g. FHA, FMECA, System Safety Assessment, etc.).
• Support the FRACAS and Reliability Initiatives in development and in-service phases.

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 of Science degree in Mathematics, Actuarial Science, or Engineering with 1+ years of experience OR Master's of Science in Mathematics, Actuarial Science, or Engineering OR PhD degree in Mathematics, Actuarial Science, or Engineering
• In order to be considered for this role, you must be a US citizen

Preferred Requirements

• Multi-disciplinary collaboration skills, including facilitation and communication at the component, sub-system, and system level
• Technical experience in the use of Safety and/or Reliability engineering tools (e.g.) Weibull++, XFMEA, XFRACAS, @RISK, Reliability Workbench.
• An ability to apply logical, analytical and innovative thinking on a range of technical problems
• Technical experience in the deployment of Safety and/or Reliability engineering tools and methods
• Member of ASQ working toward Certified Reliability Engineer credentials

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.

Benefits

• 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
• a long-term incentive plan

Pay Range $73,120 - $118,820-Annually

Location: Indianapolis, IN

Job Category Engineering for Services

Job Posting Date 12 Aug 2026; 00:08

Rolls-Royce pioneers cutting-edge technologies that deliver the cleanest, safest and most competitive solutions to our planet’s vital power needs.

Rolls-Royce is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristics.

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