Electrical Engineer C&TC
About Us:
Located near the foot of the Rocky Mountain Front Range, Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) is home to world-renowned experts in all facets of railway technology. With 48 miles of test track, TTCI's unrivaled capabilities are leading the way to a safer future for America's railroads. Our mission is to provide highly effective and efficient railway research, testing, training, and technical support — and our people are at the heart of that effort. Our team works together in a culture of respect, integrity, and family spirit to improve the future of rail. Join us!
TTCI is an Equal Opportunity employer – Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
Program Description:
TTCI’s Communications and Train Control (C&TC) team assists the railroad industry in testing, designing, defining, modeling, and evaluating C&TC technologies. We are seeking a talented, highly motivated engineer to support research related to current and next-generation train control technology and railway operations. The successful candidate will support research of Positive Train Control (PTC) systems, railroad wireless communications, radio technology performance, railroad safety systems, automation technology, and/or other C&TC areas.
Primary Duties:
The Entry-Level Electrical Engineer is responsible for providing professional engineering and scientific services to internal and external customers as directed by the Resource Manager, using knowledge of: electrical engineering principals, data analysis, systems engineering, programming languages, database management/querying, communication systems, and PTC. The successful candidate is expected to participate in all phases of projects by assisting in proposal preparation, test planning, modeling, field implementation, test conduct, data analysis, presentations, and report writing. Essential duties include, but are not limited to:
- Supports technology research and development activities.
- Develops systems engineering documentation, including requirements and interface specifications.
- Analyzes various aspects of railroad operations as related to application of new technologies.
- Organizes, manipulates, and analyzes of data, including large data sets.
- Utilizes data analysis techniques, tools, and scripts.
- Models, simulates, and interprets results to draw conclusions.
- Plans and conducts laboratory and field testing; develops test requirements and test plans.
- Applies statistical methods to determine requirements, processes, and standards.
- Duties may also include project management assignments.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical engineering or closely related field.
- Exposure to projects involving development of practical solutions to distinct, open-ended problems.
- Ability to apply logical and methodical approaches to solving engineering problems.
- Ability to aggregate and analyze large complex data sets from diverse sources and structures.
- Experience with numerical data analysis software packages, particularly MATLAB®.
- Demonstrable computer skills, with experience using Microsoft® Office products including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
- Excellent verbal and written communication along with demonstrable analytical and presentation abilities. Capable of preparing and delivering technical presentations to scientific groups. Strong interpersonal and communication skills with internal engineering teams and customers is a must.
- Familiarity with, or basic understanding of, risk/threat/hazard analysis.
- Ability to work independently and within a team.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with systems engineering concepts; particularly system definition process (requirements analysis, system concept definition, and requirements definition) and test methodology (test case definition, test design).
- Experience with relational databases and structured query language (SQL).
- Experience working with engineering projects related to PTC systems.
- Proficient in testing methods, data collection, and data analysis techniques and reporting.
- Abilities in computer programming, computer-based analysis, computer-aided design, and computer-based modeling.
- Experience with reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) analysis concepts.
Must be able to work under the following working and physical conditions:
- Environment: Office and field environments. Must be able to walk in an industrial and/or railroad environment, including uneven surfaces such as ballast.
- Vision: See in the normal visual range with or without correction; vision sufficient to read computer screens and printed documents.
- Hearing: Hear in the normal audio range with or without correction.