Hardware Application Engineer

Alstom - Pittsburgh, PA

Full-time - Mid Level

Pittsburgh, PA

10,001+ employees

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

As a Hardware Application Engineer at Alstom, you will play a pivotal role in the development and integration of hardware products into larger wayside and vehicle systems. This position is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and offers a unique opportunity to leverage your expertise in hardware, electronics, and circuits to ensure optimal interfacing with our products. You will be responsible for preparing comprehensive documentation for hardware subsystems, including their associated bills of materials, and presenting these subsystems to customers during design reviews. Your role will also involve collaborating with other engineering teams to enhance their understanding of hardware products and designs. In this position, you will analyze existing system architectures to identify connection points for our equipment within larger systems, ensuring that the correct interfaces are established. You will assist in the testing and configuration of our equipment, contribute to the elaboration of hardware specifications and architecture in collaboration with the Hardware Architect, and perform hardware integration of products. This includes describing technical choices and verifying compliance with input and output requirements through analysis, computations, models, simulations, or mock-ups. Additionally, you will define general plans for mechanical integration alongside Mechanical Engineers, create electrical schematics, and define the Bill of Materials. Ensuring that the hardware design can be manufactured, tested, and repaired will be a key responsibility, working closely with industrialization teams. You will also prepare laboratory development systems and setups for verification testing, manage hardware work products according to the Configuration Management Plan, and support hardware and software integration efforts. Your role will require you to stay informed about technological advancements relevant to our products, ensuring that Alstom remains at the forefront of innovation in the mobility sector.

Responsibilities

• Taking existing hardware products and interfacing them into larger wayside and vehicle systems.
• Preparing documentation for hardware subsystems and their associated bill of materials.
• Preparing customer documentation and presenting subsystems during design reviews.
• Assisting others outside of the hardware group in understanding hardware products and design.
• Analyzing existing system architecture for connection points of equipment into larger systems.
• Assisting in testing and configuration of equipment into larger systems.
• Contributing to the elaboration of hardware specifications and architecture with the Hardware Architect.
• Performing hardware integration of products and verifying compliance through analysis.
• Defining general plans for mechanical integration with Mechanical Engineers.
• Defining electrical schematics and the Bill of Materials.
• Ensuring hardware design can be manufactured, tested, and repaired with industrialization teams.
• Preparing laboratory development systems for verification testing.
• Managing hardware work products under configuration management according to the Configuration Management Plan.
• Supporting hardware and software integration with the Hardware Architect and Software designer.
• Supporting hardware validation of products including environmental qualification and type tests.
• Remaining informed of technological evolutions related to products.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Electronics, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related fields.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in hardware application engineering or design.
• Experience in the railway/transit industry, particularly with train control systems, is desirable.
• Good spoken and written English communication skills.
• Ability to interface and work with other engineering teams globally.
• Willingness to travel within the US and internationally up to 25% of the time.