Senior Systems Engineer Rail

Experience: 5 to 8 years

Domain: Rail / Locomotive / TCMS / Safety-Critical Systems

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to analyze legacy locomotive product definitions and transform them into structured System Functional Specifications (SFS), Software Design Specifications (SDS), functional architecture and end-to-end traceability, while providing the engineering knowledge and rules required for an AI-assisted Systems Engineering solution.

Key Responsibilities
- Analyze legacy specifications, bit-level definitions, signals, interfaces, functional and software specifications.
- Convert legacy information into structured system requirements and SFS.
- Perform functional decomposition, allocation and interface analysis.
- Derive software requirements and SDS from approved system intent.
- Establish Source, SFS, Subsystem, SDS, Design and Verification traceability.
- Identify requirement gaps, ambiguity, duplication and inconsistencies.
- Support RAMS, safety, V&V; and SIL-related activities.




- Define Rail Systems Engineering terminology, engineering rules and decision logic for AI use cases.
- Review and validate AI-generated requirements, SFS/SDS and traceability using source evidence.
- Establish the manual engineering baseline that will be used to benchmark the AI POC.

Required Systems Engineering Skills
- Robust Systems Engineering and Requirements Engineering experience.
- Rail/locomotive experience, preferably TCMS, propulsion, braking, doors, HVAC or train networks.
- Experience with DOORS/DOORS Next, Polarion, Enterprise Architect, Capella or similar tools.
- Strong understanding of V-model, functional architecture, allocation, interface management and V&V.;
- Knowledge of ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288, ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148, INCOSE, IEC 62278 / EN 50126 and EN 50716 / IEC 62279.
- Experience with safety-critical / SIL-based systems preferred.

AI / Digital Engineering Exposure
- Understanding of Generative AI/LLMs and

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