Software Engineer - Technical Leader

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has 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, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com.

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Role Summary:

The Software Engineer will focus on delivering and sustaining an integrated series of board support packages (BPS), core software services, and middleware applications that are foundational to the Modular Control Architecture (MCA).  The engineer will contribute to the definition of the strategy on which technologies to leverage, security practices to employ and be responsible for implementing those strategies.  This responsibility is cross functional in nature and requires close collaboration amongst various teams.

MCA (Modular Control Architecture) is the Next Gen Locomotive Control Architecture that modernizes the electronics, software, applications, and network communication compared to previous generations of locomotive controls.   MCA has been a journey of Controls development to incrementally update aspects of various locomotive types, including Evo, AC44, Dash 9, and FLX locomotives, with the objective of improving software quality, improving engineering productivity, meeting cyber security expectations, all while addressing the latest customer needs.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, maintain, and test MCA software: BSP, Platform Services, Middleware applications

• Ensure MCA software is robust against expected configurability, performance, cyber security, and quality requirements

• Review and refine control system-level requirements to understand design intent and reconcile with MCA capabilities

• Derive MCA software requirements and interfaces from system requirements, allocate them to MCA software components

• Develop, review, and execute hardware/software and software/software test plans for unit testing and MCA software integration testing

• Lead and participate in MCA software troubleshooting efforts to root cause failures and defects on the various test environments

• Ensure proper documentation of technical data generated for the assigned projects and/or tasks consistent with engineering policies and procedures

• Participate in, or lead as appropriate, design and code reviews.

• Plan individual work for assigned MCA software features as input to project plans

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or other Engineering discipline

• 7+ years of software engineering experience

• Experience in developing, modifying, and debugging device drivers, bootloaders, or board support packages

• Knowledge and experience with Linux kernel internals (scheduling, memory management, IPC, file systems, etc)

• Experience with hardware/software integration, Docker, C/C++, Bash, and Python

• Ability and willingness to support hands-on validation in simulation laboratory and on-locomotive

• Ability and willingness to travel as required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or other Engineering discipline

• Experience with ARM development, Data Distribution Service (DDS), Embedded RTOS, GoogleTest

• Knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering with SysML

• Experience defining system-software designs and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs

• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including requirements management, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, defect tracking, test