Lead Engineer

Location

Hatfield, Hertfordshire | United Kingdom

Job description

Site: Hatfield

Appointment Basis: Permanent

Excellent Salary + Benefits Include: Pension, Life Assurance, Contributed Healthcare

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, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Could you be the full-time Lead Engineer in Hatfield that we’re looking for?

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and apply your Digital Hardware expertise in a new cutting-edge field. You’ll report to the Principal Hardware Engineer (Control Systems) in Hatfield), and work alongside like-minded and supportive teammates.

You'll help to improve quality and product robustness through better design methodology. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business such as software, supply chain and component engineering. You will also work towards improving requirements capture and much more.

You’ll specifically take care of digital hardware design, but also interfacing and power management.

We’ll look to you for: 

• Design, development and implementation of digital hardware (at component level and above) and firmware for railway signalling control systems on bespoke and COTS platforms 
• Preparation of hardware / firmware development plans
• Interfacing with the software team
• Including specifying the hardware / software interface requirements
• Debugging and trouble shooting
• Technical documentation

All about you
We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:  

• Master’s Degree in Electronics Engineering or Computer Science. Or Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering with 10+ year of experience in the domain 
• Experience or understanding of 
• Digital hardware and firmware
• FPGA and CPLDs
• RTOS
• Housekeeping with Intel processors
• Carrier boards for SoM and CoM
• Bus translation e.g., PCIe to local buses
• Serial and parallel buses
• Communications protocols
• UARTs, USB, SPI, I2C etc
• Working to process
• Working from and creating requirements / test specifications
• Development plans
• Design and code reviews
• Configuration / version control
• Design analysis – timing diagrams etc

•   Knowledge of

• Memory technologies
• Spartan and Virtex FPGA families or similar
• Ability to read schematics / datasheets
• BSPs
• PCB design / specification
• Knowledge of embedded software and operating systems
• Familiarity with
• DFM / DFT
• Setting up test environments
• Set-up and configuration of development tools
• V&V
• Characterisation of HW
• Obsolescence management
• Membership of a professional institution

On a more personal level, you will also need to be:

• Self-motivated with a desire to learn
• Able to work independently
• A strong team player, with effective interpersonal skills
• Keen to go into detail and become the go-to person for design issues

Things you’ll enjoy 
Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. You’ll also: 

• Enjoy stability, challenges and a long-term career free from boring daily routines
• Work with new technology and apply it to rail applications
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
• Contribute to innovative projects
• Utilise our collaborative working environment
• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries
• Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning
• Progress towards Lead then Principal Engineer roles and beyond
• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive benefits (pension, life ins., medical, + anything specific to the site e.g. free on-site parking, canteen etc). 

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 70+ countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.
At Alstom we will consider requests for flexible working on hiring. Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, flexible start and finish times, job sharing, or compressed hours. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need.
Alstom U.K. is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected.  We aim to have a welcoming and inclusive environment for individuals, of different ages, genders, ethnicities, disability, LGBT, religion and/or belief.
As a 'Disability Confident' employer, we will interview all disabled job applicants who match the essential criteria of the job description or specification: if you require any reasonable adjustments, please let us know.

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