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Development Engineer

Full Time
Derby/Hybrid

Why Rolls-Royce?

At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.

The role of a Development Engineer is to define and execute verification strategies to certify and verify new products or to standardise modifications to existing products.  The role will report to the Chief Development Engineer.

The Development Engineer is responsible for ensuring that Rolls-Royce has sufficient oversight for our products to meet business, customer and regulatory requirements. Working on Civil Large Engines and future products, the Development Engineer role is fast paced with high reward to enable robust delivery of product verification and validation. This is an integration role where the individual will work to enable all engineering teams through coaching and support to successfully develop robust, verified engineering solutions against robust validated customer requirements.

What you will be doing:

• You will be allocated hardware or systems to "own", being an active member of the associated engineering teams to integrate requirements within the product development programme.                       

• Compile and maintain verification strategies to ensure all authority, customer and internal requirements are met.                                            
• Work with specialist areas and other development teams to define experiments, instrumentation, and hardware provisioning to meet the requirements of yours and other verification strategies that are affordable and executable within the engine development programme                                               
• Work with the programme execution team and other teams to provision, order, specify, maintain, strip and sentence appropriate compatible hardware (including spares and experimental variations)
• Support the timely execution of the engine development programme                 
• Define test schedules with specialist, functional and other development teams to ensure your test can be successfully integrated and executed within an engines test sequence; and support those tests ensuring the resulting data is in line with specialist's requirements to fulfil the verification requirement            
• Actively seek out, record and manage problems to resolution for your hardware, systems or subject area.
• Write Flight Clearance, Standardisation and Certification Reports documenting verification and compliance evidence in line with relevant verification strategy                                 

Position qualifications and requirements:

• Degree level in Engineering or Science or equivalent
• Experience in relevant domain is preferred but not essential
• Good communication, presentation skills and an ability to work in a multidisciplinary environment

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

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, frequency will depend on business needs, nature of role, what works for the team and for the individual. Discover more on our GBS Service Portal about hybrid working.

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.

Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.

Closing Date: 22nd October 2025

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