Senior Traction Power System Engineer

Would you like to be part of a highly skilled team and work in an empowering, international, and challenging atmosphere? Does the opportunity to be a part of an organization that’s Leading the way to greener and smarter mobility, worldwide, sound exciting? If yes, then this position is for you!  Apply today!

Alstom develops and markets mobility solutions that provide sustainable foundations for the future of transportation. Our product portfolio ranges from high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams to integrated systems, customized services, infrastructure, signaling and digital mobility solutions. Joining us means joining a caring, responsible, and innovative company where more than 70,000 people lead the way to a greener and smarter mobility, worldwide 

 Alstom,

Is the global leader in smart and sustainable mobility

We are looking for a Senior Traction Power System Engineer  in Västerås, Sweden 

The Opportunity!

The Senior Traction Engineer is responsible for the methodology and the technical development of the involved products and platform solutions covering key functionality as implemented in HW and FW but acts also as principal contact/coordinator person with respect to other product and technical domains.

Scope of Responsibilities :

• Strive for no technical issue with strong QCD impact due to the technical domain

• To capitalize the return of experience in the domain of response

• To define best practices in the domain and to spread them in the engineering community

• To create and update or review the knowledge guidelines, the tools and the templates of deliverables

• To deploy those guidelines, tools and templates in the engineering community and to promote their use

• To create and update or review the template of the design review check-list

• To chair the design reviews in his domain when needed

• To approve the technical solutions by participating to the system design review when needed

• To share return of experience, guidelines, tools, templates and check-lists with other experts and skill leaders on other sites

• Monitor technology trends and competitive landscape in the domain evolution of standards and regulation impacting his domain

• Monitor standards/norms

• To insure the technical quality of the deliverables

• To coach new engineers of the domain

• To coach thesis workers and external researchers and take initiatives to such activities

• To provide support upon request to engineers of the domain

• Lead development projects within the domain

• To contribute to problem solving

• Support in defining future verification and testing capabilities and capacity in the domain

Who you are :

• Relevant academic background, e.g. Master’s Degree or PhD degree in within the field of Power Electronics.

•  At least 5 years of experience within the field of Power electronic design with also a preferable experience in VHDL development.

• Experience of working with industrial electronics and FW for embedded systems is a merit

• Knowledge about electronics (PCBA) manufacturing and its processes

• Knowledge about testing of power modules/electronics, both in production and during development

• Good documentation and presentation skills.

• Experience from the combination of GDU – IGBT control solutions, is considered an advantage and a merit.

• Knowledge and experience of railway and safety standards, e.g. EN50155, EN50121-3-2 and 50657/50129 is beneficial

• Swedish & English at a fluent level is mandatory for this role

What do we offer?

An agile, inclusive, and responsible culture is the foundation of our company where diverse people are offered excellent opportunities to grow, learn and advance in their careers.  We are committed to encouraging our employees to reach their full potential, while valuing and respecting them as individuals.

Who are we?

We create smart innovations to meet the mobility challenges of today and tomorrow. We design and manufacture a complete range of transportation systems, from high-speed trains to electric buses and driverless trains, as well as infrastructure, signaling and digital mobility solutions. Joining us means joining a truly global community of more than 75,000 people dedicated to solving real-world mobility challenges and achieving international projects with sustainable local impact.