Hardware Designer

Req ID:425849

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

**PURPOSE OF THE JOB**
- Develop hardware electrical or electronic components (electronic boards or modules, electrical wiring of electronic products or subrack or cubicle)

Note:

- Hardware Designer can also be FPGA Designer (EN-HA-05) and rarely Mechanical Designer (EN-HA-04)
- Hardware Designer can be specialized on a subset of responsibilities:

- PCB Designer
- Component Engineer

**MAIN RESPONSABILITIES**

**Key accountabilities**:

- Elaborate or contribute to the elaboration of Hardware (Hw) specification & architecture, in collaboration with the HW architect
- Perform development of HW components:

- Perform the detailed specification and design of the Hw components, describing technical choices and verifying by analysis (computations, models, simulation or mock-up) the compliance to input requirements.
- Define the general plans for mechanical parts together with Mechanical Designers
- Select the materials and electric/electronic/electromechanical parts. This activity can be in conjunction with a Component Technologist.
- Design the electrical schematics and produce associated Bill of Material
- Define the placement and routing constraints for electronic boards
- Evaluate the thermal performances together with Thermal Engineers
- Optionally defines the interfaces of the programmable components (FPGA - Field-Programmable Gate Array), CPLD - Complex Programmable Logic Devices) together with FPGA Designers.
- Performs or follow the realization of the PCB (Printed Circuit Board) design and definition file. This activity can be under responsibility of another HW designer specialized in PCB Design.
- Ensure that the design can be manufactured, tested and repaired, together with industrialization teams
- Follow the realization of the prototypes made by industrialization team and check them
- Design and implement the firmware / SW necessary for HW component tests - or specifies the softwares to be developed
- Specify, design, prepare and perform HW components and work products verifications (including tests)
- Put the Hardware work product under configuration management according to product Configuration Management Plan
- Support the Hw/ Hw and Hw/Sw integration, together with the HW Architect and SW designer
- Support the Hw validation of the product including environmental qualification and type tests
- Sustain the Hw
- Analyze incident coming from field return, production, contribute to their resolution and propose design improvement solutions
- Analyze impact of obsolete component (product discontinuation) and propose replacement solutions. This activity can be in conjunction with a Component Technologist
- Perform the modification of the design
- Analyze impact of change, update the documentation and perform non regression verification activities
- Remain informed of the evolution of technologies through techno watch
- Through his / her activities, contribute to standardization by reusing existing solutions or by implementing reusable solutions
- Contribute to continuous improvement (RoE - Return on Experience, process)
- Ensures reporting of its activities to the HW Architect

As a Component Engineer:

- Support introduction of new component by assessing the solution on the market, considering all the criteria of component selection (quality, perennity, cost, lead time, multisource, reliability, design for manufacturing)
- Support obsolescence management by searching and evaluating equivalence of alternative parts, and contribute to the decision between storage and redesign
- Support preventive obsolescence management by periodically evaluating impact of future obsolescence. Evaluate perennity of a product
- Support manufacturing, repair or field return root cause analysis when issue identified at component level
- Perform survey of component market in liaise with sourcing
- Optionally drives external supplier design for obsolescence solutions (interposers)

**Performance measurements**:

- Actual vs planned number of development runs
- On-Time Delivery
- Number of non-detected issue, detected after end of component verification

**MAIN REQUIRED COMPETENCES**

**Educational Requirements**

**Mandatory**:

- Master’s Degree in Electronics Engineering or Computer Science.
- Or Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering with 10+ year of experience in the domain

**Experience**

**Mandatory**:

- Experience of Electronic development

**Desirable**:

- Experience in railways industry or