For 175 years, Siemens has been an integral provider of infrastructure, electrification, and transportation solutions in the United States. Automation’s impact on the railway industry is second only to the effects of digitalization. Combine them and the results are transformative! We work at the leading edge of this movement, applying our validated expertise in digitalization to rail infrastructure and automation. Our innovative solutions deliver greater safety, punctuality, reliability, and sustainability across the line, all while reducing costs for mass transit and freight transportation systems. We are continuously developing new answers for rail automation – often to questions that haven’t been asked yet.

We are hiring for a Senior Systems Engineer for the Rail Infrastructure (RI) R&D team in the domain of large, complex back-office software systems. The position involves specifying, managing, and communicating the technical requirements for several large back-office software systems (such as a dispatching system and movement planner). Key responsibilities of the position include: delivering quality technical requirements to the development team; ensuring the requirements satisfy customer goals, desired system functionality, and objectives; analyzing system-level technical documents (e.g., ICDs) as sources of requirements; alignment to regulatory (e.g., FRA) requirements and standards; capturing requirements in multiple formats (e.g., individual written requirements, tabular format); providing additional requirements modeling artifacts to improve clarity (e.g., UML sequence and activity diagrams); creating and maintaining the trace links between requirements and other project artifacts (e.g., design); implementing requirements standard methodologies in the project process, and; the collection and reporting of requirement metrics.

What your day-to-day will look like:

• Develops the detailed, specific, technical requirements for large-scale complex back-office software systems.
• Manages technical requirements consistently across all back-office projects. Requirements are managed in a requirements management tool (Polarion) and candidate needs to ensure that the requirements are properly traced to various technical artifacts (e.g., design, test, RAMS).
• Supports the UX experts in the user interface design process and documentation.
• Supports project management in the change and scope management processes.
• Displays a high level of critical thinking in bringing successful resolution to high-impact, sophisticated, and/or multi-functional problems within the rail back-office systems domain.
• Demonstrates and applies extensive knowledge of railroad operations to the successful definition of complex back-office systems topics.

To thrive in this role, you have:

Qualified applicants will have 5-8 years of successful experience in a directly related field and successful demonstration of Key Responsibilities and Knowledge as presented above.

• BS in Engineering or Computer Science - Electrical Engineering preferred
• Advanced Degree preferred, Masters, PhD, or MBA
• Technical knowledge of operations concepts in rail industry, rail products, dispatch systems and other Back office rail systems
• Strong experience in systems design of PTC products for North American Class-1 Freight Railroads
• Competency with requirements management tools, preferably Polarion or DOORS
• Knowledgeable in standards, process, and methods for Requirements Engineering
• Experience with safety and security critical systems
• Customer focused approach
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills and ability to work with others in person and off-site.
• Strong technical analysis skills
• Excellent technical writing skills

Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without needing current or future employer-sponsored work authorization.

Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: https://www.benefitsquickstart.com/siemens/index.html. The base salary range for this position in Munhall, PA is $122,100 - $164,800. The salary may be higher or lower depending on the budget and the candidate's experience, knowledge, skills, and qualifications. The annual incentive target is 10% of the base salary.