Rolling Stock System Engineer

RINA is currently recruiting for a Rolling Stock System Engineer to join its office in Genoa, Naples or Rome within the Electronics and Systems Engineering Division.

Mission

The Rolling Stock System Engineer is responsible for the technical integration of various systems and components within a rail vehicle. This includes managing interfaces between subsystems, ensuring compliance with requirements, supporting system validation and verification, and coordinating with multidisciplinary teams across the project lifecycle from concept to commissioning.

Key Accountabilities

• System Integration: Define and manage interfaces between mechanical, electrical, and electronic systems onboard rolling stock.
• Requirements Management: Develop and track system-level requirements and ensure compliance with customer specifications and standards (e.g., EN50126/8/9, TSI).
• Design Coordination: Collaborate and review the activity of design, manufacturing, and testing teams to ensure proper system implementation.
• Documentation: Create and review system architecture documents, interface control documents (ICDs), and functional specifications.
• Testing & Validation: Support and witness system-level testing, including functional testing, performance testing, and safety validation, both in labs and on track.
• Problem Solving: Assist and review resolutions of system issues during development, manufacturing, and operation phases.
• Compliance & Safety: Verify that systems adhere to railway industry regulations and safety standards.
• Stakeholder Liaison: Act as a technical point of contact between engineering teams, suppliers, and clients.
  
  

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Transport Engineering

Qualifications

• Railway Engineering & Operations Knowledge: Proficiency in Rolling Stock (Locomotives, EMUs, DMUs, High-Speed Trains), On Board electrical/electronic equipment (HV, MV, LV components), Signaling Systems (ETCS, CBTC, PTC, Interlocking), Traction System, Braking System, HVAC System, TCMS, ecc…
• Systems Engineering & Integration: Familiar with systems engineering principles, electrical architecture, safety-critical systems, interface management between hardware, software, and infrastructure. Managing mixed traffic operations (High-speed, freight, commuter trains).
• Technical Knowledge: Proficiency in configuration management, performance evaluation, verification, static and dynamic validation.
• Tools & Standards: Proficient in requirements management tools (e.g., DOORS), international rolling stock standards (EN, UIC, TSI) and standards like EN50126, EN50128, EN50129.
  
  

Competencies

• ADDRESS THE WAY - Have a big picture of different situations and reinterpret it in a perspective way
• BUILD NETWORK - Forge trust relationships, across departments, and outside the organization
• CLIENT INTIMACY - Embrace internal and external client needs, expectations, and requirements to ensure maximum satisfaction
• EARN TRUST - Take everyone's opinion into account and remain open to diversity
• MAKE EFFECTIVE DECISIONS - Structure activities according to priorities, actions, resources and constraint
• MANAGE EMOTIONS - Recognise one's and other's emotions and express and regulate one's reactions
• PIONEER CHANGE - Actively embrace change and benefit from the new circumstances
• PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - Promote commitment by keeping promises as a Role Model
• THINK FORWARD - Capitalise on experiences and translate them into action plans for the future
  
  

With over 5,800 employees and 200 offices in 70 countries worldwide, RINA is a multinational player which provides certification, marine classification, product testing, site supervision and vendor inspection, training and engineering consultancy services across a wide range of sectors. Our business model covers the full process of project development, from concept to completion. The aim is to guarantee a project’s technical, environmental and safety - and sometimes also economic and financial - sustainability.

At RINA, we endeavor to create a work environment where every single person is valued and encouraged to develop new ideas. We provide equal employment opportunities and are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels respected and safe from discrimination or harassment of any kind. It is the policy of RINA to provide equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy) national origin, age, disabilities, marital status, sexual orientation, genetics, military status, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, other protected veterans (veterans who served during a war or in a campaign or expedition for which a badge has been authorized), and Armed Forces service medal veteran, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. We are strongly committed to this policy and believe in the concept and spirit of the law.

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