Senior Rail Hardware Design Engineer - Sydney

Hitachi; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual performance review

Professional development

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Employee Assistance Program

Company-sponsored days off

Job summary

Hitachi Rail is seeking an enthusiastic Senior Hardware Design Engineer in Sydney, Australia. The role covers a broad range from administration to strategic hardware design, with a primary focus on rail infrastructure.

The successful candidate will own hardware design responsibility, coordinate interfaces, and ensure compliance across the program. The position is based in Sydney and offers opportunities to lead installation-ready documentation and design work.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in hardware design within rail or similar infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of cabling, rack layouts, and power distribution.
• Understanding of earthing, bonding, EMI/EMC in physical design.
• Experience producing installation-ready engineering design docs.
• Ability to translate multi-discipline requirements into hardware design.

Responsibilities

• Development of rack layouts and equipment configurations, ensuring 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

Rack layouts

Power distribution

EMI/EMC principles

Engineering docs

Education

Electrical Engineering

Systems Engineering

Job description

Hitachi Rail is seeking an enthusiastic Senior Hardware Design Engineer in Sydney, Australia. The role covers a broad range from administration to strategic hardware design, with a primary focus on rail infrastructure.

The successful candidate will own hardware design responsibility, coordinate interfaces, and ensure compliance across the program. The position is based in Sydney and offers opportunities to lead installation-ready documentation and design work.