Name: System Design Specialist
Location: North York, ON
Start: 05/10/2021
End: 10/29/2021
Department: Projects Systems Engineering
Job Category: R&D: Systems Engineering & General Studies
Job Title: System Design Specialist
Hours Per Week: 40.00
Hours Per Day: 8.00

Duties: Key Responsibilities:

• Converts Customer (internal and/or external) requirements into conceptual designs and prepares associated documentation by performing operational analyses, 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

• Performs technical/engineering tasks to define system design, subsystem requirements, application databases for software subsystems. Analysis and simulations are performed as necessary to identify design feasibility & driving requirements

• Prepares specialized signaling design skills, covering one or more of the following: Signaling 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 his technical specialty

• Operational design limits are evaluated and defined; performance analyses and simulations are developed & performed to support the above

• Ensure the signaling design is implemented in accordance with applicable standards and signaling principles

• Interface and build strong working relationships with Software, Hardware and IVVQ groups to ensure timely analysis and resolution of in-house and field test issue

• Leading technical discussions, technical solution presentation to internal and external stakeholders

• Supervises contractors and other systems specialists, by defining their work, coaching them on how and what to prepare, monitoring their progress and directing them on priorities

• Proposes work package estimates and descriptions based on the knowledge of the work and project requirements

Skills: Required Skills and Experience:

• University degree in Computer sciences, Engineering or a closely related field
• Minimum 5 years relevant experience in development of software-based System applications

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Strong application (automated train control systems) domain knowledge
• Knowledge of systems engineering principles and practices
• Knowledge of modern software engineering practices, methods and tools
• Knowledge of systems development life cycle
• Excellent technical writing and communication skills
• Ability to sell/defend product to customers with differing levels of knowledge about automated systems
• Strong planning and organizational skills
• Experience in using DOORS, Melody advance, etc.
• Rail Signaling knowledge is an asset
• Professional Engineer license is desirable

Required Skills: DOORS SOFTWARE