Senior System Engineer (Railway System Interface Manager)

Mission

Interface management and integration

• Manages railway system scenarios, requirements, architecture, and interactions among rolling stock, signaling, tracks, and power supply.
• Selects technologies and configurations for new rail projects.
• Coordinates subsystem interface development and verification and validation through successful interface closure.
• Manages interfaces with external stakeholders and completion of applicable authorization processes.
• Ensures interoperability among railway subsystems and validates compatibility with national and international requirements and standards.
• Ensures subsystems are integrated to validate performance and functionality across railway scenarios.

Verification, lifecycle and digital rail

• Supports integration testing and ensures railway systems meet project requirements, standards, and laws.
• Defines and monitors the interface verification and validation plan.
• Manages railway upgrades and modernization projects and supports asset management and maintenance planning.
• Implements IoT, AI, and Big Data solutions for predictive maintenance and automation.
• Works with Digital Twin, remote monitoring, and smart signaling technologies.

Education and experience

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering.
• At least 15 years of railway systems engineering experience, with strong proficiency in interface management.
• Experience focused on sustainability in railway systems and infrastructure design, construction, and operation.
• Experience with V-Model, Agile, or Waterfall methodologies and large-scale railway system deployment projects.

Railway systems expertise

• Knowledge of rolling stock, including locomotives, EMUs, DMUs, and high-speed trains.
• Knowledge of signaling systems such as ETCS, CBTC, PTC, and interlocking.
• Knowledge of 25kV AC, 750V DC, and 3kV DC electrification and track infrastructure including standard gauge, high-speed rail, light rail, and metro.
• Experience managing interfaces among hardware, software, and infrastructure and mixed-traffic operations.
• The description lists CENELEC EN 50126, EN 50128, EN 50129, ETCS/ERTMS, IEC 62290, and UIC, AAR, and FRA regulations.
• Listed tools include DOORS, Enterprise Architect, ReliaSoft, FMECA and FTA tools, MATLAB, Simulink, and CATIA.

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