Software Engineer III
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation21 hours ago
West Melbourne, FL, USASenior
Base Salary
$79k - $113k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, integrate, test, demonstrate, and maintain embedded software applications for LOCOTROL locomotive control products.
- Develop and maintain software components, systems, and networks using C and C++.
- Design and implement embedded software from requirements analysis through production and commercial deployment.
- Integrate next-generation platforms with Remote Control Locomotive, Tower Control, and Distributed Power products.
- Maintain and enhance software deployed in existing embedded products and systems.
- Ensure application development meets product specifications and system functional and interface requirements.
- Design, implement, and test software against quality, performance, reliability, and safety specifications.
- Participate in design and code reviews and develop software requirements, design, and architecture documentation.
- Provide technical mentoring to more junior software engineers.
- Collaborate with product managers, systems engineers, architects, test teams, engineering teams, customers, and partners throughout development and deployment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- At least 4 years of embedded software development experience in RTOS and bare-metal environments.
- Experience writing multiprocess and multithreaded programs using C or C++.
- Strong understanding of software design methods and architectural approaches, plus knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles.
- Experience with DDS, Yocto, C++23, CMake, GTest, automated or CI environments, DOORS Next, Visual Studio, Dev Containers, GitLab, and GitLab CI.
- Experience with Agile software development environments, including Scrum and/or Kanban.
- Experience with ColdFire, ARM, and/or PowerPC microprocessors in C/C++ environments.
- Experience with TCP/IP, UDP, RS232/RS422, HDLC, SPI, I2C, and CAN communication protocols.
- Experience with embedded RTOS platforms, including Green Hills INTEGRITY.
- Experience with SVN or Git software configuration management tools.
- Experience with software analysis tools such as Klocwork, Understand, or PC-Lint and unit testing tools such as VectorCAST.
- Experience designing high-reliability, safety-critical, redundant, and fail-safe products.
- Experience with IEC 61508, DO-178B, Cenelec-50128, or similar industry standards.
- Willingness and ability to travel approximately 10% of the time.
Benefits
- Health, welfare, and retirement benefits are available through Wabtec’s benefits program.
- Annual bonus may be available if eligible.
- The role requires approximately 10% travel.
- Wabtec is an equal opportunity employer and supports workplace accommodation requests.
About Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (Wabtec) builds freight locomotives, braking and signaling systems, rail components, and software used by freight railroads, transit agencies, and industrial operators. The Pittsburgh-based public company (NYSE: WAB) sells original equipment, digital solutions, and aftermarket services worldwide; it combined with GE Transportation in 2019 and traces its roots to George Westinghouse’s 19th‑century air brake business. Its portfolio spans rolling stock, parts, condition‑monitoring, and train control platforms.