Senior Electrical Power System Engineer

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Job Title: Senior Electrical Power System Engineer Working Pattern: Full-time Working location: Indianapolis, IN (Hybrid Schedule -3 days onsite minimum)

Rolls-Royce is looking for a Senior Electrical Power System Engineer to join our growing team. This is an exciting opportunity to work on flagship Rolls-Royce programs and play a vital role in solving some of the most complex and interesting technological challenges in the industry while being part of a global, multi-disciplinary team.

As a Senior Electrical Power System Engineer, you will be the owner of assigned control system functions and interfaces. You will be responsible for providing technical guidance, counsel, and direction to a small team of engineers to ensure technical outcomes are delivered to appropriate standards and quality while working with a global engineering community to identify areas for collaboration and knowledge exchange.

You will support full life cycle development and mentor junior engineers on processes, tools, and technical solutions. In this role, you will have the opportunity to travel up to 10%.

***This position is eligible for a hybrid work schedule allowing for remote and in-office days each week. Hybrid work arrangements are subject to change based on business needs and/or changes in company policy. All hybrid employees must have a secure, high-speed internet connection and an appropriate workspace that complies with applicable information security and confidentiality requirements.

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: • Lead the definition of electrical system projects including capturing requirements, creating proposals, achieving stakeholder approval, and aligning partner support • Work with a cross-functional team to establish the highest standards of technical capability, quality, professionalism, and teamwork • Ensure designs meet applicable safety, regulatory, and industry standards • Support commissioning activities and help resolve technical issues during project delivery • Provide and support engineering and process guidance, training and creating documentation • Prepare and review engineering work products for technical documentation, quality, completeness • Develop and communicate complex technical ideas and information in a concise and logical way • Ensure appropriate policies, standards and best practices are defined, shared and adopted • Lead the sharing of best practice, represent the area as an authority in their defined subject, provide concise justification for decisions, record and capture salient information in reports and systems

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’s degree in Electrical, Electronic, Control Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related discipline with 2+ years of electrical engineering experience, OR • Master’s degree in Electrical, Electronic, Control Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related discipline, OR • PhD in degree Electrical, Electronic, Control Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related discipline • In order to be eligible for consideration, you must be a U.S. Citizen

Preferred Requirements: • 5+ years of electrical system/product development engineering experience • Application of agile development methods to deliver engineering work products

• Experience in writing technical documents such as electrical system requirements and specifications, product design specifications, test specifications etc. • Experience of developing, implementing and validating electrical power systems and sub-systems that integrate electrical machines, AC-AC / AC-DC and DC-DC conversion stages that will connect to a grid and/or other loads via distribution system • Demonstrated experience with electrical system studies (load flow, faults studies, protections, harmonics, EMC, voltage drop, etc.) and analysis tools (such as Siemens Capital, MATLAB / Simulink / Simscape or similar) • Experience in using electrical test equipment, data acquisition and analysis tools such as NI LabVIEW, or similar • A systems-thinking mindset and an understanding of systems engineering processes, tools and industry standards (ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288, ARP4754 etc.) for development of complex aerospace, standalone power ge

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