Control Systems Engineer – Traction and Aux Control

About the role

Wabtec is hiring a Control Systems Engineer for its Locomotive Control Systems Engineering team, based onsite in Contagem, Minas Gerais. The engineer designs, develops and validates locomotive traction and auxiliary control systems that meet customer requirements, reliability goals and cost targets, working with locomotive system engineers, software engineers, validation teams and global cross-functional teams.

Key responsibilities

• Design and develop traction and auxiliary control systems for locomotive applications.
• Take part in system concept development, feasibility studies and trade-off analyses.
• Define and document system requirements and interfaces with locomotive and subsystem engineering teams.
• Create Simulink/Stateflow models and run desktop simulations to validate control designs.
• Develop validation plans and carry out system-level validation, including simulator testing and locomotive testing support.
• Build robust engineering solutions that meet reliability, quality and cost objectives, following Wabtec engineering standards.
• Collaborate with global teams to reach project milestones and support work on high-horsepower, high-voltage locomotive equipment.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Control Systems Engineering or a related field.
• Engineering experience in control systems, traction systems or a related technical area.
• Hands-on experience designing and developing control algorithms.
• Preferred: experience as a Traction and Auxiliary Control Engineer, knowledge of locomotive control architectures, and experience in global cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical, planning and problem-solving skills, and good written and verbal communication.

Required skills

• Working knowledge of Simulink, Stateflow or similar model-based development tools.
• Preferred: signal processing and real-time embedded control systems, requirements management tools, statistical analysis methods, Six Sigma Green Belt.

What we offer

• Extended medical and dental coverage for dependents.
• Private pension, life insurance and profit-sharing participation.
• Employee assistance program, Headspace app, language incentive programs and mentorship training.
• Natal card or gift basket, Christmas gift for children up to 11, extended maternity leave and programs for pregnant women and babies.