Senior Automation Software Engineer

About the role

Hitachi Rail is looking for a self-motivated Senior Automation Software Engineer for its Brisbane office. The role suits someone who enjoys software design and best practices, can propose new solutions using design patterns and make pragmatic decisions for project delivery. The position is full-time and onsite.

Key responsibilities

• Analyse component requirements from subsystem requirements and design
• Analyse component design and produce the component architecture and design specification in line with SIL 0 requirements of EN 50128
• Write interface specifications, including message formats
• Develop component software according to coding standards
• Develop component test scripts in Python using the in-house test framework
• Document design precisely and traceably to requirements and test cases, especially using UML/SysML sequence diagrams

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology or equivalent
• Ideally at least 5 years' experience in software development and quality design documentation
• Demonstrated experience writing software requirements and object-oriented design
• Experience in real-time or semi-real-time software design and development
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively and to meet tight deadlines
• Rail industry experience is beneficial

Required skills

• Enterprise integration patterns and object-oriented design
• C++, Java or similar object-oriented languages
• XML, XSLT, MySQL and unit testing frameworks
• UML/SysML sequence diagram modelling

What we offer

• A global company with good work-life balance
• Career progression with training and development
• Salary Continuance Insurance