System Design Specialist

5 months ago


Burnaby, Canada Thales Full time

Location: Burnaby, Canada

Thales people architect solutions that support 85 million mainline and suburban passenger journeys, worldwide, every day. Our Rail Signalling and Communication systems are used on metro lines across major cities, and 72,000 kms of route, 52,000 trains per day in 16 countries are controlled by our Traffic Management Systems. Together We deployed the first-ever nationwide ticketing system which processes over 50 million ticketing transactions in 100 cities daily.

We are looking for a System Design Specialist to join our team in Burnaby

You will perform system design, signalling design, network design, analysis, modelling and simulation to specify communication based train control systems.

In addition, you will develop and define system design features to meet Customer requirements; analyze and evaluate designs to verify compliance with system technical requirements and develop and define Subsystems requirements.

The work is typically defined by the Work Package Manager, then reviewed, modified and agreed with and approved by the Systems Architect and/or Manager. The System Engineer typically works with a team of engineers to define what will be designed, how it will perform and how it will be determined that it is working correctly.

Key Responsibilities:
- Converts Customer (internal and/or external) requirements into conceptual designs and prepares associated documentation by performing operational analysis, simulations and technical trade-off studies evaluating alternative design configurations and functional features- Similarly creates new concepts or modifies existing concepts to fulfil customer requirements- Prepares system, subsystem, and interface requirement specifications by analyzing, decomposing modelling and refining customer requirements and typical train control domain requirements- Prepares Operational Concept Document-
- Analysis and simulations are performed as necessary to identify design feasibility & driving requirements- Prepares specialized signalling design skills, covering one or more of the following: Signalling Principles; Block design; Interlocking control tables; Safe braking model; Performance analysis and Headway simulations; Application database design- Prepares specialized network design skills, covering one or more of the following: Communication network requirements; Communication network design (both wired and wireless); Communication network configuration (both wired and wireless); Communication network analysis on various perspectives, such as reliability, security, scalability, maintainability etc.; Troubleshooting various complex network issues; Evaluation of existing third-party communication network design and their interaction with CBTC communication network, such as development of interface definition, RF interference, security assessment etc.- Prepares and supports bids and proposals, including customer requirements compliance assessment, gap analysis, architecture design, simulation, trade-off of key features, estimation, etc.- Presents technical design and reports to customers and/or other engineering/management groups in clear, complete, concise and non-ambiguous terms- Defines or proposes updates of processes and standards covering the work and its products based on the knowledge of systems engineering and/or their technical specialty- Operational design limits are evaluated and defined; performance analysis and simulations are developed & performed to support the above- Ensures the signalling design is implemented in accordance with applicable standards and signaling principles- Interfaces and builds strong working relationships with Software, Hardware and IVVQ groups to ensure timely analysis and resolution of in-house and field test issue

Required Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a closely related field-
- Knowledge of modern software engineering practices, methods and tools- Knowledge of systems development life cycle- Good marketing and presentation skills

Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Experience in using DOORS, Melody advance, etc.-
- Rail Signaling knowledge- Work package management- System engineering expertise- Strong planning and organizational skills- Excellent technical writing and communication skills- Ability to sell/defend product to customers with differing levels of knowledge about automated systems

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