Application Design Engineer

KBSignaling - West Henrietta, NY

Full-time - Entry Level

West Henrietta, NY

About the position

The Control Systems Administrator, also known as Application Design Engineer, plays a crucial role in the MARTA project in Atlanta, GA. This position involves ensuring the successful integration and functionality of the Control Center System, which includes subsystems such as ATS, SCADA, and Security System. The role requires collaboration with various teams to monitor and control subsystems, perform requirement analysis, and manage the project lifecycle from testing to final acceptance by the customer.

Responsibilities

• Assisting in the technical deployment while coordinating between engineering disciplines to ensure customer acceptance of the project solution
• Ensuring that applicable technical documents are distributed to all relevant project disciplines
• Ensuring project documentation approval by the customer
• Managing configuration throughout the project life cycle (as-designed, as-built, as-shipped, as-installed)
• Acting as the engineering liaison to all project disciplines, including externals
• Defining, producing, and validating all Control Center System application data and parameters
• Ensuring that all technical requirements are managed throughout the project lifecycle
• Performing Data Preparation and testing for ATS, SCADA and Security System based on the Design Document and Tools
• Performing Integration between products, modules, Interfaces, including HMI, and data
• Assisting in defining Test Plan and Integration documents and performing tests
• Producing customized engineering solutions including interconnections between systems and sub-systems
• Assisting in defect analysis to identify components causing issues and interfacing with producers for resolution
• Providing feedback to inputs producers such as the System team and ATS Specification project team
• Identifying, raising and managing various change and work orders in the system together with the Project Manager.

Requirements

• 3-5 years in Information Systems, Computer programming or Engineering disciplines
• Experience or understanding of control and/or communication systems design, operation, and evaluation
• Knowledge of system engineering and interface control documents
• Familiarity with both Linux and Windows operating systems, including systems administration, installation, configuration, and server management
• Understanding of SCADA systems and industry standard protocols such as Modbus, TCP/IP, and Serial Communication
• A certification or demonstrated skill in technical assessment and troubleshooting, with knowledge of tools like GDB, Wireshark
• Experience or understanding of control and/or communication systems design, operation, and evaluation
• System Engineering and Applications Engineering and/or System Test/Validation
• Collaboration with Signaling customers

Nice-to-haves

• Master's Degree of Science in Engineering Software Engineering, Engineering, Computer Science, Info Systems, Math, or related field

Benefits

• Competitive Health Benefits, including Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision and Virtual visits
• Company-paid Basic Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
• Company-paid Short-Term Disability Coverage
• Voluntary life, Disability, and other Supplemental coverages
• Identity Theft and Legal Protection benefits
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Health Savings Accounts
• Generous 401(k) plan
• Personal Paid Time Off
• Company-paid holidays