Senior Software Validation Engineer - Rail Infrastructure
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Location: Homestead, PA 15120
Description:
At Siemens Mobility, we are at the forefront of innovation, crafting and manufacturing a wide range of rolling stock, including commuter and regional passenger trains, light rail and streetcars, metros, locomotives, passenger coaches, and high-speed trainsets. Our groundbreaking technology powers cities and railroads, providing traction-power substations, electricity transmission, and signaling and control systems for freight and passenger rail and transit systems. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a difference, this is the place for you!
As a Senior Software Validation Engineer, we invite you to join our team to design, develop, and support our vision for North American Rail Automation. You will collaborate with domain experts, architects, developers, and testers on the Siemens Back Office Server (BOS), a key component of the Positive Train Control (PTC) initiative. PTC is revolutionizing the rail transportation industry and will serve as a foundation for future technologies aimed at network optimization and autonomous rail networks.
What your day-to-day will look like:
We aim to hire top talent and arm them with the opportunity to make top dollar. Can you see yourself learning, growing, and succeeding here? If so, we'd like to meet you!
This job is based in Pittsburgh, PA. We offer a variety of health and wellness benefits to employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: https://www.benefitsquickstart.com/siemens/index.html. The base salary range for this position in Pittsburgh, PA, is $109,100 - $147,200, and the annual incentive target is 10% of the base salary. The salary may be higher or lower depending on the budget and the candidate's experience, knowledge, skills, and qualifications.
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As a Senior Software Validation Engineer, we invite you to join our team to design, develop, and support our vision for North American Rail Automation. You will collaborate with domain experts, architects, developers, and testers on the Siemens Back Office Server (BOS), a key component of the Positive Train Control (PTC) initiative. PTC is revolutionizing the rail transportation industry and will serve as a foundation for future technologies aimed at network optimization and autonomous rail networks.
What your day-to-day will look like:
- Assist with requirements review, analysis, specification, verification, and validation.
- Create, review, maintain, document and implement Test plans, Test cases, and other Customer deliverable items.
- Adhere to established guidelines and processes to meet technical standards and ensure maintainability.
- Demonstrate leadership skills and communicate complex and technical concepts effectively, both in writing and verbally.
- Debug, solve, and isolate hardware and software issues.
- Manage and assist the test team in their daily activities (Act as an advisor to junior engineers), including reviewing validation feedback, approving Pull Requests, and merging them to the master repository in Git.
- Plan work scope, estimates, and schedules for the test team based on sprints, deliver releases to customers, and estimate release dates based on defects and change requests.
- Participate in daily standup meetings, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, and Client defect triage meetings.
- Verify external defects logged by customers, reproduce them in the Test Environment, and work closely with the Development Team.
- Be able to understand and run non-functional tests and requirement traceability matrix.
- Be part of a 24x7x365 on-call rotation handling customer emergency support calls.
- Bachelor's degree in electrical, computer, or software engineering, or a related field.
- Proficiency in Unix environment and commands.
- Sound understanding of ISO QE standards
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent verbal communication, presentation, and technical writing skills.
- Willingness to travel up to 25%.
- Proven experience in systems/software development and testing and project leadership.
- Solid understanding of railroad software and systems or experience working in a federally regulated industry.
- Experience with containers, cloud environments, scripting in Python/shell, and Gitlab pipelines is a plus.
- Proficiency in C++ programming.
We aim to hire top talent and arm them with the opportunity to make top dollar. Can you see yourself learning, growing, and succeeding here? If so, we'd like to meet you!
This job is based in Pittsburgh, PA. We offer a variety of health and wellness benefits to employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: https://www.benefitsquickstart.com/siemens/index.html. The base salary range for this position in Pittsburgh, PA, is $109,100 - $147,200, and the annual incentive target is 10% of the base salary. The salary may be higher or lower depending on the budget and the candidate's experience, knowledge, skills, and qualifications.
#LI-AW1
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Siemens is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local law.
Reasonable Accommodations
If you require a reasonable accommodation in completing a job application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please fill out the accommodations form by clicking on this link Accommodation for disability form. If you're unable to complete the form, you can reach out to our AskHR team for support at 1-866-743-6367. Please note our AskHR representatives do not have visibility of application or interview status.
EEO is the Law
Applicants and employees are protected under Federal law from discrimination. To learn more, Click here.
Pay Transparency Non-Discrimination Provision
Siemens follows Executive Order 11246, including the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision. To learn more, Click here.
California Privacy Notice
California residents have the right to receive additional notices about their personal information. To learn more, click here.
Criminal History
Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable local and state laws.