Senior Systems Engineer

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary continuance

Annual performance and salary review

Discounted Hitachi products

Employee Assistance Program

Health and Wellbeing initiatives

Training and development

Job summary

Hitachi Rail STS Australia Pty Ltd is seeking a Senior System Engineer in Brisbane to join a team delivering Traffic Management System software. You will work on enterprise platforms with message brokers, canonical data models and microservices, deploying primarily on virtual machines with containerisation.

You will design and specify architectures, write requirements and interface documents, and ensure compliance with safety and cyber security standards relevant to rail IT systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience as a systems engineer, software architect or similar.
• Experience with UML/SysML modelling; ability to write software requirements.
• Ability to work independently and deliver to tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Produce specifications, designs and plans under guidance of leads.
• Write subsystem requirements and interface specifications with tracing.
• Develop system and subsystem architectures with diagrams and models.
• Create hardware design specifications for CAD hand-off where needed.
• Prepare software QA plans, verification and validation plans with traceability.

Skills

Systems engineering

Software architecture

Business analysis

UML/SysML modelling

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in software engineering or related field

Tools

UML/SysML

IBM DOORS

JMS

Message brokers

Job description

Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Job ID: R0137264 Date Posted: 2026-07-29 Company Name: HITACHI RAIL STS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD Profession (Job Category): IT, Telecom & Internet Job Schedule: Full time Remote: No

About Us

A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi-cultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there’s something for everyone to get stuck into. And that’s where you come in.

Job Description

Hitachi Rail is looking for an enthusiastic self-motivated Senior System Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment. The position is based Brisbane, Australia. An exciting opportunity has opened for a TMS Software Systems Engineer to join us working in a passionate team on the latest developments in Traffic Management Systems. Our systems work within enterprise platforms utilising message brokers, canonical data models and utilising micro-services and enterprise integration patterns. Deployment is primarily on virtual machines with containerisation. External interfaces cover a broad set of protocols including SCADA interfaces, bespoke UDP and TCP interfaces, modbus, message brokers and more.

Key responsibilities

• The systems engineer will report to the work pack lead and software development manager to produce a wide variety of specifications, designs, and plans.
• Writing sub-system requirements (in IBM DOORS) derived from system requirements complete with tracing.
• Writing component level requirements.
• Writing interface specifications including documenting and describing the message formats.
• Writing system and subsystem architectures including but not limited to logical diagrams, physical diagrams, sequence diagrams and system interactions.
• Writing hardware design specifications including rough hardware drawings that can be provided to a CAD engineer.
• Writing specifications for sub-contracting software functionality.
• Writing software quality assurance plans, verification and validation plans and software configuration management plans with traceability to standards.
• Managing quotation through procurement departments of hardware and software through to ordering and delivery.
• Designing rollout strategies that include operating models and migration of user operations within a rail dispatch environment.
• Much of the software is safety related and requires adherence to software processes, coding standards, cyber security standards and safety standards such as Cenelec EN 50128. Ensure compliance with Hitachi Rail standards and regulatory requirements.

Skills & Experience

We are looking for someone who is passionate about systems engineering, who understands software but can expand their horizon to analyse and produce a broad set of types of specifications. You would have the attributes of a business analyst while also be able to produce novel solutions using a variety of design approaches with a strong attention to detail. You should have a love of producing quality, detailed and accurate documentation and be efficient at producing specifications of significant size and complexity in a traceable way to requirements and test cases, particularly when modelling using UML/SysML sequence diagrams. You will have at least 5 years’ experience as a systems engineer, software architect, business analyst or similar relevant role. A software background is highly regarded.

Essential criteria

• 5+ years of professional industry experience as a systems engineer, software architect, business analyst or similar relevant role
• Demonstrated experience with UML/SysML or other design modelling; Demonstrated experience writing software requirements
• Demonstrable capacity to work independently and collaboratively; Demonstrable ability to deliver to tight deadlines while maintaining a high quality of work.

Highly desirable criteria

• Experience with JMS, message brokers, enterprise integration patterns, micro service patterns;
• Real time/semi-real time software design/development experience;
• Experience in the rail industry;
• Experience in or supporting system/subsystem integration;
• Experience in Cenelec standards.

Education, skills and experience

Bachelor's degree in software engineering, Computer Systems Engineer, Railway Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent.

Company culture and diversity statement

At Hitachi Rail, we know that a diverse business is a sustainable business. Working collaboratively with a range of internal networks, we’re continuously improving our policies and products. From accessible, sustainable design to achieving a better gender balance. We base these efforts on our core values: Harmony, Sincerity, and Pioneering spirit. And by aligning with these, we’re able to create a workplace where people not only feel comfortable but are given opportunities to thrive.

We welcome and value differences in background, age, gender, sexuality, family status, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and world view. It is our commitment to create an inclusive environment - we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

What we offer

• Salary continuance.
• Annual performance, development, and salary review process.
• Invitations to purchase discounted Hitachi products.
• Employee Assistance Program (employees and family).
• Flu Vaccinations.
• Invitation to attend and participate in Company sponsored social events throughout the year.
• Health and Wellbeing initiatives throughout the year.
• Days off per year sponsored by the company in addition to the statutory public holidays and leave entitlements.
• Ongoing professional development and training.