Job Title: Applications Engineer AE 2100
Working Pattern: Full time
Working location: Indianapolis, IN. (Hybrid/3 days onsite on avg.)
Job Description:
The AE 2100 Application Engineer will answer questions from the customer on engines in the field and interface with the larger engineering community to provide timely answers. Additionally, the AE 2100 Application Engineer role may create Investigation Requests (IRs) to address field issues that require engineering changes and shepherding those IRs through the change process.
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
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 behaviors 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:
Preferred Requirements:
Demonstrated ability to form customer relationships based on technical knowledge and working with the customer to solve engineering problems.
Understanding military end-users’ needs and working to solve technical issues to support the warfighter.
Aerospace Background: deep knowledge of gas turbine engine components, performance, and controls.
Professional Certifications: FAA Airframe & Powerplant license (not required to be current) or other mechanical background in repairing or replacing engine components.
Safety & Reliability: understanding how to apply Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analyses to prioritize work on component or system issues.
Airworthiness & Service: familiarity with FAA and/or military airworthiness regulations and the process of supporting the implementation of Service Bulletins or Technical Variances.
Stakeholder Management: confidence in presenting technical briefings to high-level OEMs, military customers, and operators.
Change Management: experience in shepherding projects through the change process from initiation through implementation through Product Change Board (PCB) or equivalent.
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.
Relocation assistance is provided as needed for this opportunity.
Closing Date: 05/22/2026
Global Grade/Level: Level C
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Validation and Verification
07 May 2026; 00:05
$114,400 - $185,900-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.