Software Engineering Specialist - Signals & Communications

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About Burns:</strong></p> <p>Burns Engineering provides professional engineering design and project management services for transportation, facilities, and infrastructure projects. We help our clients attain their strategic goals and initiatives through successful large-scale infrastructure projects.  Burns’ full-service capabilities include mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, transportation, and energy consulting engineering.</p> <p>Recently voted a Top Workplace by Philly.com, we credit our strength as an organization to our talented, driven, vibrant team.  Burns is an ENR Top 500 Firm, and has been named an MEP Giant by Consulting-Specifying Engineer Magazine, as well as a Hot Firm by Zweig.  We are industry experts, proven leaders, innovative thinkers, and team players. We put our clients’ successes and best interests first, because their success is our success. We have fun at work because we love making a difference in the world.  We are looking for high-energy, bright, collaborative individuals who want the opportunity to “write their own story” with us.</p></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Railroad & Transit Team</span><br></strong></span><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Burns provides design and construction solutions to help maintain, improve, and expand the nation’s railroad and transit infrastructure. We have designed the implementation of critical programs across the country and support the renewed emphasis on a public transit-oriented lifestyle.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">We are currently seeking a <strong>Software Engineering Specialist</strong> to join our <strong>Railroad & Transit - Signals and Communications </strong>team in <strong>Pittsburgh, PA, Philadelphia, PA, or Boston, MA.</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>SUMMARY<br></strong></span>Under direct supervision of the project manager, and with the cooperation and guidance of other ranking technical staff, prepare designs and implement software solutions for railroad and public mass transit applications. Designs include simulators for a wide range of rail applications, automation for data collection and analysis, and automatic generation of files and reports from custom databases.</span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES</strong></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Development of automated tools for the purposes of:</span></li> <li> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Automatic test and reporting</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Automatic file and report generation from a custom database environment</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Automatic data parsing and report generation from data files</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Development of simulator and stimulators within a laboratory environment following existing design interface specifications</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Setup and maintain virtual machines within a laboratory environment</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Learns and participates in the execution of specific engineering and design analyses</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Assists activities to ensure that design, installation, and operational testing conform to functional specifications and customer requirements</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Accompanies senior technical staff in performing on-site inspections during testing</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Performs work in the timeframe and budget allotted</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS </strong></span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) in Computer Science or Computer Engineering from an accredited four-year college or university, or a combination of relevant </span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">education and equivalent engineering experience.</span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS </strong></span></p> <ul> <li