Internship - 6 month - Railway System Engineer - Alarm Modeling and Visualization

Alstom; Île-de-France; On-site; EUR 13,000 - 18,000; Full time

Job summary

Alstom in France offers an internship focused on alarm management within urban transit HMIs. You will study how operators receive alarm information and compare banners, views, and event-related displays, and design alarms to support line operations.

You will help define a standard alarm list and support prototyping across Alstom products and solutions, collaborating with System and ATS teams, with fluency in French and English to engage with customers and colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing the structure and content of the alarms defined in the alarm specification.
• Studying the different mechanisms used to present alarms to operators, including alarm banners, product views, and event-related views.
• Analyzing the navigation capabilities within the HMI to propose features for operational alarms.
• Defining a simple, structured data model to represent alarm characteristics and lifecycle.
• Contributing to the integration of an HMI prototype to visualize alarms, their characteristics, and evolution.
• Identifying potential improvements to make alarms more relevant and useful for operators.

Job description

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, more than 80 000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Internship Context

In a complex urban metro system, alarm management plays a key role in ensuring the smooth operation of the line. Alarms enable operators to monitor the system and contribute to maintaining its availability and performance. They are also an essential tool for identifying and managing degraded situations, allowing operators to respond effectively and minimize the impact on operations, which is an important factor in passenger satisfaction.

In this context, the objective of the internship will be to study the information made available to operators through Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs), as well as the capabilities offered by these interfaces, with the ultimate goal of designing alarms that effectively support line operations. A key challenge will be to establish the link between the system-level definition of alarms and the way they are presented to operators.

The intern will also contribute to defining astandard alarm list, which will be displayed through a prototype HMI to demonstrate the different use cases associated with alarms. The prototype will need to be adaptable to the various Alstom products and urban transit solutions. This alarm list will serve as a basis for discussions and workshops with customers regarding the definition and use of operational alarms.

Main Responsibilities

• analyzing the structure and content of the alarms defined in the alarm specification;
• studying the different mechanisms used to present alarms to operators, including:
  • alarm banners;
  • the different views available across Alstom products depending on the urban transit solution;
  • any event-related views;
• analyzing the navigation capabilities available to operators within the HMI in order to identify and propose relevant features for operational alarms;
• defining a simple, structured, and easy-to-understand data model to represent the characteristics and lifecycle of an alarm;
• contributing to the integration of an HMI prototype for visualizing alarms, their characteristics, and their evolution throughout their lifecycle;
• identifying and proposing potential improvements to make alarms more relevant and useful for operators, taking into account both existing and potential future functionalities.

Working Environment and Collaboration

This internship will involve collaboration across several teams. The intern will work closely with the System teams as well as the ATS (Automatic Train Supervision) teams. These interactions will help align system and customer needs with the capabilities offered by existing products and interfaces. So the candidate has to be fluent in French and English.

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

Important to note

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