System Safety & Reliability Engineer

rollsroyce; United States; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

bonus

employee support assistance

employee discounts

Job summary

Rolls-Royce is hiring a System Safety & Reliability Engineer in the United States, with work locations in Indianapolis, IN or Novi, MI. This full-time role focuses on understanding and mitigating product hazards while ensuring reliability under challenging conditions.

You will model degradation, perform probabilistic safety assessments, and support product development with Safety & Reliability analyses across components and fleets.

Qualifications

• Basic requirements include a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Actuarial Science, or Engineering with 1+ years of experience, or a Master’s/PhD in the same fields.
• This role involves safety and reliability engineering tasks across design, development, and maintenance.
• Candidate must be a US citizen to be considered.

Responsibilities

• Understand product degradation and failure mechanisms to eliminate or reduce hazards.
• Develop and deploy models at component, system, asset, and fleet levels for safety and reliability.
• Support Safety & Reliability analysis and documentation (FHA, FMECA, System Safety Assessment).
• Support FRACAS and Reliability initiatives in development and service phases.

Skills

Collaboration

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Safety engineering tools usage

Education

BSc in Mathematics/Actuarial Science/Engineering

MSc in Mathematics/Actuarial Science/Engineering

PhD in Mathematics/Actuarial Science/Engineering

Tools

Weibull++

XFMEA

XFRACAS

@RISK

Reliability Workbench

Job description

Job Title: System Safety & Reliability Engineer

Working Pattern: Fulltime

Working location: Indianapolis, IN or Novi, MI

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.

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:

• 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.

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.

• bonus
• employee support assistance
• 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, N