Senior Interlocking Hardware Design Engineer

Senior Interlocking Hardware Design Engineer

Date: 10 Mar 2025

Location: Toronto, ON, CA

Company: Alstom

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, more than 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Imagine playing a central role in reducing the carbon footprint of Canada's busiest public transit system and doing so with a consistently ranked Top Employer with a global reach. As part of the ONxpress consortium, Alstom is proudly working to transform the collective mobility of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton areas (GTHA) through the On-Corridor Works project. The GO Expansion scope: new electric locomotives, train control systems, network electrification, signalling, telecommunications and digital systems.

Purpose:

• The Interlocking (IXL) is a system composed of Mechanical, Electromechanical, Electric, Electronic and Software components aimed at ensuring safe movements of trains.
• The purpose of the job is to identify and analyze customer and product requirements to define and design standardized IXL architectures (functional, physical and operational) and the related configurations of the IXL equipment (pre-fitted concept) suitable for Tenders, prototyping, series production and project deployment.
• The IXL System designer participates in the deployment of projects when specific issues or needs arise during the project lifecycle, requiring corrective or evolutive actions on the IXL architecture and pre-fitted solutions, focusing on the first deployment of the architecture/solution, ensuring proper verification and continuous improvement.

Key accountabilities:

• Deliver design scheme plan layouts, Control Tables, safe HMI layouts, hardware configuration drawings, cable core plans, signaling equipment room layouts, and diagnostic application data.
• Ensure adherence to reference application design methods & tools, requesting deviations in cooperation with the Project IXL design leader whenever appropriate.
• Participate actively in the IXL detailed design review meetings and provide activity progress reports.
• Organize and produce documents, software, and hardware design deliveries according to project templates and needs.
• Support the Project IXL design leader and Project V&V manager in debugging design issues.
• Analyze and manage design change requests and participate in defining the HW package to be delivered to the V&V, installation, and Testing & Commissioning teams.
• Ensure independence of the design activity from the verification activity.
• In cooperation with Project IXL design leaders, Project Engineering Managers, and the Product development team.
• Capture all internal and external hardware interfaces and the environmental/climatic installation conditions of the IXL system.
• Identify the trackside equipment to be controlled and detected and the application conditions related to trackside engineering.
• Evaluate space constraints for the installation of the pre-fitted configurations of the IXL solution.
• Consider work methods constraints for the installation of the pre-fitted configurations of the IXL solution.
• Capture the IXL product application conditions, functional features, and capabilities.
• Define and lead the design of the pre-fitted solution of Central Interlocking Computer, Remote Area Controllers, and Safe HMI Clients in terms of racks and cubicle housing, internal cabling, power supply needs, and interfaces towards other subsystems/equipment.
• Organize and lead the activities for producing an exhaustive document set to permit the correct assembly and off-site testing (FAT) of the pre-fitted solutions.
• Define the IXL equipment breakdown (racks, electronic actuators, power supply, cabling) of the pre-fitted solution.
• Ensure application and consistency to the reference processes applicable to the solution design, methods & tools, requesting deviations whenever appropriate.
• Support Installation and Test & Commissioning teams during the first installation of the solution and its testing. Utilize REX from on-site activities for continuous improvement of the solution and documentation.
• Share and spread knowledge of the IXL system architecture features to the project engineering community.

Requirements:

• Engineering Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Electronic, Automation Engineering, or similar.
• P. Eng certification or in progress.
• 5-10 years in relevant positions (systems/sub-systems application design or integration, electrotechnical product development) in a highly complex and normative environment (railway signaling, aerospace, defense).
• Good analytical skills and previous experience in system design & integration.
• Knowledge of Interlocking Systems, safety principles, and power supply background.
• Knowledge of Alstom products.
• Interlocking hardware design generation.
• More than 10 years in relevant positions (systems/sub-system application design) in a highly complex and normative environment (railway signaling, CBTC, aerospace, defense).
• Open-minded.
• Multi-disciplinary approach.
• Problem setting and problem solving.
• Sense of urgency.
• Writing skills required: clarity, rigor, and concision.

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

Important to note:

As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63 countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.