Senior System Engineer (all genders) - Rail Communication Systems

Frequentis; Wien; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office option

Lunch Bonus in the office

Public transport ticket for Vienna

Parking space subject to availability

IT equipment

Job summary

Frequentis Group, headquartered in Vienna, delivers mission-critical railway communication solutions for Europe’s largest operators. As a Senior System Engineer (all genders), you will lead system engineering, integration support, and customer collaboration on FRMCS projects across Europe and Australia.

You will develop architectures, technical specifications, and deployment strategies, and drive testing, qualification, and migration activities with international project teams.

Qualifications

• University degree in Telecommunications, IT, CS, or Systems Engineering.
• Several years of experience as a System Engineer in complex IT/railway projects.
• Hands-on in system engineering, requirements, integration, testing, deployment, and migration.
• Experience with 3GPP Mission Critical Services is a strong advantage.

Responsibilities

• Act as Senior System Engineer throughout the project lifecycle for FRMCS projects.
• Contribute to system architecture, specifications, integration concepts, and deployment strategies.
• Develop and maintain project engineering documentation and deliverables.
• Lead internal and external system integration, testing, and migration activities.
• Monitor progress, manage risks, dependencies, and issues across the lifecycle.
• Collaborate with customers, management, development teams, suppliers, and subcontractors.

Skills

System engineering

Requirements engineering

System integration

Testing & migration

OpenShift

VoIP

International projects

Analytical thinking

Education

University degree in Telecommunications or IT

Tools

OpenShift

Linux

SIP/VoIP

Container orchestration

Job description

Job Introduction

Frequentis Group with headquarters in Vienna is an international supplier of communication and information systems for control centres with safety-critical tasks. Worldwide, more than 500 customers in some 150 countries with more than 45,000 workstations already trust our know-how and proven experience.

Within our Public Transport business, we deliver mission-critical communication solutions for some of Europe's largest railway operators. As a Senior System Engineer (all genders) you will play a key technical role in the delivery and evolution of advanced railway communication solutions for FRMCS projects involving European and Australian railway infrastructure operators. The role combines system engineering, technical coordination, integration support, and customer collaboration in an international environment.

Key Tasks

• Act as Senior System Engineer throughout the whole project lifecycle for FRMCS projects involving European and Australian railway infrastructure operators.
• Contribute to the creation of system architecture, technical specifications, integration concepts, deployment strategies, and technical solution design for complex railway communication systems.
• Develop and maintain project specific engineering documentation and other engineering deliverables based on customer and system requirements.
• Steer and actively participate in internal and external system integration, qualification and acceptance testing, commissioning and migration activities, collaborating with relevant project stakeholders and driving technical problem solving to support successful delivery.
• Monitor engineering progress and proactively identify, communicate, manage and resolve technical issues, dependencies, risks, and opportunities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Collaborate closely with customers, project management, development teams, engineering disciplines, subcontractors, and suppliers to ensure alignment and successful technical delivery.
• Support continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and engineering excellence within the project and the wider Public Transport engineering organisation.

Key Qualifications

• University degree in Telecommunications, Information Technology, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a comparable technical discipline.
• Several years of experience as a System Engineer in complex IT, telecommunications, railway, or mission-critical infrastructure projects.
• Proven experience in system engineering, requirements engineering, system integration, testing, acceptance, deployment, and migration of software-intensive systems, combined with a hands-on approach to technical analysis and troubleshooting of complex technical systems.
• Strong understanding of system architecture, interface management, virtualization technologies, and distributed mission-critical environments. Experience with 3GPP Mission Critical Services is a strong advantage.
• Extensive hands-on experience with container orchestration (i.e. OpenShift) in Linux based environments, SIP based VoIP solutions and related telecommunication technologies.
• Experience working in international project environments with customers, suppliers, and distributed engineering organisations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills combined with a structured and delivery-oriented mindset.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in multidisciplinary and multicultural project teams.
• Fluent English is mandatory; additional language skills are considered an advantage.
• Willingness to travel internationally as required by project needs (up to 20%).

Our Values

Around 2,900 employees are committed to creating a safer world with their innovative strength and technology orientation. Our culture is based on a working environment characterized by fairness and trust, mutual respect and appreciation. As an international company, we value this diversity and recruit regardless of age, gender, origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion. We value fair and good working conditions, an optimum work-life-balance and offer all our employees equal development opportunities. In doing so, we focus on long-term working relationships in order to keep the valuable know-how of our employees stable.

Benefits

Working at Frequentis means making the world a safer place every day, enjoying long-term career opportunities, and benefiting from numerous employee benefits. These include, among others, a working time model based on trust, the option to work from home, a choice of IT equipment, a public transport ticket for Vienna or a parking space subject to availability, our Lunch Bonus in the office, the option to take a sabbatical, a comprehensive onboarding programme, and numerous opportunities for professional and personal development. You can find even MORE benefits on our careers website

• TRUSTED OFFICE HOME OFFICE / MODERN PUBLIC TRANSPORT / MENTORING TRAININGS
• FITNESS / WORKING HOURS RESTAURANT WORKATION IT-EQUIPMENT PARKING SPACE PROGRAM JOBRAD