Senior Rail Hardware Design Engineer

Hitachi Rail; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary review and progression

Professional development and training

Salary continuance

Health and Wellbeing initiatives

Employee Assistance Program

Team and company social events

Job summary

Hitachi Rail is seeking a Senior Hardware Design Engineer for the Sydney-based team to lead hardware architecture across rail projects, coordinating interfaces, installation requirements, and compliance considerations while ensuring technical continuity.

You will design rack layouts, cabling schemes, power distribution, grounding, and EMI/EMC considerations, delivering installation-ready documentation and cross-disciplinary integration.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in hardware design within rail or comparable infrastructure environments.
• Strong knowledge of cabling systems, rack layouts, power distribution.
• Working understanding of earthing, bonding, and EMI/EMC principles as applied to physical design.
• Experience producing structured, installation-ready engineering design documentation.
• Ability to interpret and translate multi-discipline subsystem requirements into coherent hardware designs.
• Degree qualification in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Development of rack layouts and equipment configurations, ensuring appropriate space allocation, access, and maintainability.
• Definition of cable routing approaches across stations, trackside, tunnel, depot, and facility environments.
• Design of fibre and copper cable terminations, including physical interface requirements.
• Establishment of power supply requirements, including load allocation and distribution considerations.
• Incorporation of thermal and heat load constraints into hardware configurations.
• Design of earthing and bonding arrangements in accordance with project requirements.
• Consideration of EMI/EMC principles within physical design, including segregation and routing practices.
• Definition of equipment mounting solutions, including racks, desks, walls, and specialist installations such as video walls.
• Specification of cable containment and installation constraints, where applicable.

Skills

Hardware design

Cabling systems

Electrical installation

EMI/EMC

Documentation

Rail infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Systems Engineering

Tools

Electrical CAD

Job description

Hitachi Rail is seeking a Senior Hardware Design Engineer for the Sydney-based team to lead hardware architecture across rail projects, coordinating interfaces, installation requirements, and compliance considerations while ensuring technical continuity.

You will design rack layouts, cabling schemes, power distribution, grounding, and EMI/EMC considerations, delivering installation-ready documentation and cross-disciplinary integration.