System Safety & Reliability Engineer

At Rolls-Royce, we shape the modern world by powering, protecting, and connecting people everywhere. Join us to create world-class power and propulsion solutions, pushing problem-solving and ingenuity to deliver real impact with safety as the top priority. This role offers responsibility and growth in a high-performance culture, contributing to one of the world’s most recognized brands and a beacon of engineering excellence.

About the role

As a System Safety & Reliability Engineer, you will ensure the safety and reliability attributes of our products are understood and risks are managed to an acceptable level. This role integrates diverse technical knowledge to support complex systems operating under highly challenging conditions. You will work with Design, System, and Service Engineers throughout the product lifecycle to meet company, customer, and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Understand product degradation and failure mechanisms, their consequences, and work to eliminate or reduce product hazards.
• Develop models characterizing these mechanisms using deterministic, probabilistic, or data mining techniques.
• Assess new and derivative design solutions, product operation, and maintenance practices to evaluate their impact on product safety and reliability.
• Develop and deploy models at component, system, asset, and fleet levels to characterize product safety and reliability.
• Support 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).
• Support the FRACAS or relevant event management system during development and in-service phases.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Actuarial Science, or Engineering with 2+ years of experience in statistics, probability, and reliability prediction.
• Master’s degree in Mathematics, Actuarial Science, or Engineering (or JD/PhD).
• Must be a US Citizen.

Preferred Qualifications

• Multi-disciplinary collaboration skills, including facilitation and communication at component, sub-system, and system levels.
• 2+ years of product safety engineering experience or software development/systems safety analysis.
• Application of agile development methods to deliver engineering work products.
• Experience with military qualification and/or FAA certification of airborne systems.
• Familiarity with standards such as ARP4754, ARP4761, MIL-STD-882, MIL-STD-1629, DO-178C, DO-254, AMCOM 385, or IEEE 1633-2016.
• Gas turbine engine, propulsion, or electrical control system experience.
• Demonstrated experience with control system design and tools like Fault Tree+, Reliability Workbench, DOORS, or Cameo Systems Modeler.
• Knowledge of systems engineering, robust design tools, and model-centric development approaches.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Total Rewards package including base pay and a discretionary bonus plan.
• Health, dental, vision, disability, life, and accidental death & dismemberment insurance.
• Flexible spending account and health savings account.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Paid Time Off, holidays, parental and family care leave.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Long-term incentive plan.

Pay

$98,566 – $160,169 annually.

Relocation assistance will be provided if applicable.