Software Engineer – HMI and Advanced Features

Job Description

It’s not just about your career or job title… It’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.

Job Description

It’s not just about your career or job title… It’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.

Who are we?

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more

Who will you be working with?

In this role, you will work with the HMI and Advanced Features Software Development team. This team collaborates closely with other Wabtec Controls Software teams, Sub-system teams, and Simulation teams.

How will you make a difference?

As a member of the HMI and Advanced Features Software team, you will design, develop, maintain, and test customer-facing embedded software solutions that improve locomotive operations, maintenance, reliability, and performance. You will translate system-level requirements into robust software requirements and interfaces, support hardware/software integration, and contribute to validation across simulation laboratory and on-locomotive environments. You will also collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to troubleshoot defects and ensure solutions meet configurability, performance, cybersecurity, and quality requirements.

What do we want to know about you?

Required

• Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or another Engineering discipline.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in software engineering or adjacent experience.
• Experience with Linux operating systems on embedded systems.
• Experience contributing to the design of new embedded software systems.
• Experience with hardware/software integration, Docker, and languages such as C/C++ and Bash.
• Experience with MATLAB and MATLAB Simulink.
• Experience developing and testing embedded software.
• Understanding of CI/CD software engineering practices.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices across the full software development life cycle, including requirements management, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, defect tracking, testing, and operations.
• Ability to prioritise and manage trade-offs effectively to meet overall objectives.
• Ability and willingness to support hands-on validation in a simulation laboratory and on a locomotive.
• Ability and willingness to travel as required.

What will your typical day look like?

• Design, develop, maintain, and test software.
• Ensure software is robust against expected configurability, performance, cybersecurity, and quality requirements.
• Review and refine control system-level requirements to understand design intent and reconcile them with software capabilities.
• Derive software requirements and interfaces from system requirements and allocate them to software components.
• Develop, review, and execute hardware/software and software/software test plans for unit and integration testing.
• Participate in software troubleshooting efforts to identify the root causes of failures and defects across test environments.
• Ensure proper docume