Application Design Engineer

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Job title: Application Design Engineer
Based at: Romania-Bucharest
Introduction

For almost 30 years, Alstom has been an innovative pioneer playing an important role in Romania’s transition towards a modern and sustainable railway transport. From state-of-the-art digital rail control, to infrastructure and electrification projects, along with metro trains and the long-term maintenance of the metro fleet in the country’s capital city Bucharest, Alstom is constantly making a difference in the mainline and urban rail transport in Romania.

Through the diversity and complexity of its projects, Alstom is a very attractive employer for the young generations of Romanian specialists, giving them a unique chance to professionally grow in an international environment with access to worldwide knowledge and capabilities.

We operate in the domain of Design and construction of safety critical transportation systems.

Very accurate verification (have we done the design correctly versus the internal process?), Validation  (have we done a design meeting the customer requirements?) and integration ( is the system operating properly considering the nominal and possible degraded situations?) are mandatory as per the related Standards applicable.

The working environment is excellent in terms of possibility to learn how to master complex and modern  technology in the domain of real-time embedded systems, communication technology, System and Software engineering,  Advanced  design and validation methodology. It requires people motivated to learn, passionate to get results, ready to work as a team player and oriented to meet the customer expectation and satisfaction.

We plan to develop a specific center of excellence capable to master these competencies.

Overview:

The Interlocking Application Design Engineer position, reporting directly to Interlocking (IXL) Team leader will as a responsibility have:

Delivers software modules by ensuring detailed design and implementation of these modules.

Specific responsibilities of the role:

• Contributes to the elaboration of (IXL) interlocking sub-system specification & architecture, in collaboration with the interlocking architect.
• Follow the design tool chain.
• Realizes development of interlocking software modules.
• Prepares and performs the interlocking sub-system module tests and verifications of his deliverables (“Designer” tests), prior to the ones formally realized by a dedicated Verification and Validation team (depending on Safety Integrity Level and associated Product development organization).
• Supports the hardware/software integration, together with the hardware designer.
• Contributes to workload estimations for the deliverables of his scope.
• Applies internal processes and standards.
• Contributes to continuous improvement (return of experience, process improvement).

Qualifications & Experience

• University Degree level in Electronics /Automation/Transportation/Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Mathematics or Physics.
• Student in final year in an Engineering Faculty (for part-time position only).
• Good knowledge of Word, Excel, Power Point.
• English Language: Medium/Advanced Level.
• Experience in Engineering, Transport Engineering or other safety critical industrial field represents and advantage.
• Knowledge of the programming language represents an advantage.
• Knowledge of another international circulation language represents an advantage (French, Italian, Spanish, German).

Behavioral Skills / Competencies

• Teamwork and Communication skills.
• Flexibility and adaptability.
• Analytical and methodical problems solving

An agile, inclusive, and responsible culture is the foundation of our company where diverse people are offered excellent opportunities to grow, learn and advance in their careers.  We are committed to encouraging our employees to reach their full potential, while valuing and respecting them as individuals.

According to The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 hereinafter referred to as GDPR we would like to inform you that:
1. The administrator of your personal data is ALSTOM Transport S.A. Romania, (hereinafter: Administrator).
2. Your personal data will be processed in order to recruit for the job position you submitted application documents on the basis of art. 6 par. 1 lit. b RODO and if you have agreed, also for future recruitment conducted by the Administrator, based on. Art. 6 par. 1 lit. a GDPR.
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You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

Important to note

As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63  countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.