CE - Control Engineer

Req ID:470054 

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, more than 80 000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Within the Central Rolling Stock Engineering Organization, we are looking for a Train Functional Architect, based in Haguenau (Bas-Rhin), in order to support Rolling Stock projects. 

Each Train is a complex system made up of several sub-systems, each one of these composed of mechanical, electric and electronic devices. The whole system is controlled and monitored by a combination of low voltage cabled logic and software solutions embedded in electronics devices: this is the control system. The functional behavior of the control system, its monitoring and the sub-systems acting together in the train system must meet the customer requirements, and the Train Functional Architect is responsible for designing this control system and its subsystem interactions to successfully achieve this.

Working across tenders and projects, a Train Functional Architect will define the purpose and scope of the technical aspects of a control system in line with the final product (Metro, Tramway, High Speed, Very High Speed, Regional, etc.), customer and company requirements, and appropriate regulations and standards.

Daily duties include a very high level of collaboration with their team and other stakeholders within all the design phases to establish the product design and development, as well as ‘make or buy’ projections and maintaining the Quality, Cost and On-Time Delivery progress.

A Functional Architect must simultaneously master both the high-level and low-level functionality of a control system and its products from both a technical and conceptual viewpoint. Required qualifications include years of relevant experience and well-developed skills in design, system analysis, sub-systems analysis, configuration management and product management.

Other duties are:

• Analyze, clarify, consolidate and develop all the applicable functional requirements at train level. Elaborate train functional architectures (command and control, with low voltage and software design) in order to satisfy all the applicable functional requirements with a particular focus on Safety and Availability performance.
• Develop suitable functional train architectures, concepts and design solutions, interfaces and perform trade-off studies to select the most suitable functional architecture while keeping aligned all the stakeholders (Train Level, Safety and Availability, sub-systems, low voltage design, software design) and managing the configurations and changes.
• Ensure key decisions regarding functional architectures, concepts and system technologies solutions are made in a timely manner to ensure make and buy choices and sub-systems delivery to project can be achieved,
• Ensure complete and correct set of functional specifications (from functional train architectures) and interfaces issued for the project,
• Ensure design solutions are valid and correctly integrated to meet customer technical requirements in the form of a class leading, competitive and compliant rolling stock design,
• Specify the Software solutions details and follow the development, the verification and the test,
• Verify and tune functional design through simulation while elaborating functional models (e.g. Model Based Methodology, Simulation),
• Contribute to the Train functional integration validation while defining the means of proof and elaborating Test Specification,
• Prepare and report functional architectures, software specification, development and validation project progress, risks and key performance indicators (KPI)

Join our team in Haguenau to take part of our projects. 

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.

Job Type:​Experienced​