Aerothermal Engineer

Job Title: Aerothermal Engineer

Industry: Defence

Years of Experience: 3 to 15 years

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.

Summary:

Exciting opportunity for Aerothermal Engineers in India to help shape the Defence business by supporting key programme milestones aligned with the Defence Combat strategy at Rolls-Royce India.

You will design innovative, high-performance Aerothermal design for Fan, Compressor and Turbines, balancing product attributes to meet customer needs. Working alongside the mechanical design teams you will specify the gas-washed surfaces and commit to system performance levels.

Responsibilities:

• Define requirements for gas path aerothermal, ensuring an accurate and complete flow-down and capture of higher-level requirements.
• Define concepts for gas path aerothermal systems that meet requirements and evaluate using appropriate analytical methods to support accurate trades and optimised concept selection.
• Integrate gas path aerothermal systems through interaction with all adjacent areas across the organisation to deliver optimised systems.
• Perform appropriate verification and validation activity to ensure that requirements have been correctly met and that gas path aerothermal related aspects meet expectations.
• Identify opportunities for improvement in tools, methods and processes and support capability team in development and deployment of enhanced capability.

Qualifications:

• 3-15 years of experience with Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical or Aeronautical Engineering; other qualifications with relevant experience may be considered.
• Demonstrated experience in turbomachinery aerodynamic design and analysis.
• Strong fundamentals in Fluid dynamics, heat transfer, aerodynamics, thermodynamics.
• Manage and execute complex flow solutions (reacting and non-reacting flows) using CFD and other analytical tools and methods.
• Exposure to tools like ICEM CFD, Space claim, design modeller, Ansys, Fluent, Starccm, CFX, Open foam, UG-NX, flowmaster, Matlab, Python etc will be an added advantage.
• Highly numerate with strong technical and analytical skills, problem-solving ability and capable of systems level thinking.

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.