Engineering Technical Leader – Embedded Software

Job Description It’s not just about your career or job title… It’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us. Who are we? Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with 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 and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more! Engineering Technical Leader – Embedded Software 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 Our Commitment to Embrace Diversity: Wabtec is a global company that invests not just in our pr