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.

It’s not just about your career… or your job title…it’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters…do things that haven’t been done to make yours and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

Who will you be working with?

You will be part of MCA (Modular Control Architecture) software team. The MCA SW architecture is highly flexible, made up of many modular software, application, and hardware elements. While flexibility adds opportunity and capability, it also adds complexity, driving the importance of a robust platform SW and communication strategy. MCA is built on MBSE (Model Based System Engineering) principles for requirements management and test cases with full traceability built into the MBSE model.

How will you make a difference?

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

What do we want to know about you?

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

• Minimum of 7 years’ software engineering experience

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

• Experience with Linux OS on embedded systems

• Knowledge of Linux kernel internals (scheduling, memory management, IPC, file systems, etc.)

• Experience with hardware/software integration, Docker, languages such as C/C++, Bash, Python

• Ability and willingness to travel as required

What will your typical day look like?

• Provide technical leadership to maintain high standards of software quality by establishing good practices, drive process and guide team to deliver consistently

• Provide timely communications on significant issues, risks, or developments

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

• Design, develop, maintain, and test MCA Platform SW: BSP, Platform Services, MCA Middleware applications to connect MCA Platform with Business Logic applications

• Ensure MCA Platform SW 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 Platform capabilities

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

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

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

• Prepare and present technical design decisions and results to internal and external customers

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

• Support V&V through validation test cases execution on various test environments

• Provide timely communications on significant issues, risks, or developments

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

• Prepare invention disclosures to protect the technology that provides a competitive advantage to the business

You may also be asked to perform other duties outside of your function or trade, for which adequate training will be provided if necessary.

Relocation assistance may be provided if eligibility requirements are met.

Wabtec will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the U.S. for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable) and fitness for duty test (as applicable).

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Wabtec Corporation is committed to taking on the world’s toughest challenges. In order to fulfill that commitment we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity and inclusiveness. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences and styles…people like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.