Software Engineering Specialist-Rail & Transit

About the role

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. 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.

Responsibilities

• Develops automated tools for the purposes of:
  • Automatic test and reporting
  • Automatic file and report generation from a custom database environment
  • Automatic data parsing and report generation from data files
• Develops simulator and stimulators within a laboratory environment following existing design interface specifications
• Sets up and maintains virtual machines within a laboratory environment
• Learns and participates in the execution of specific engineering and design analyses
• Affords assistance to activities to ensure that design, installation, and operational testing conform to functional specifications and customer requirements
• Accompanies senior technical staff in performing on-site inspections during testing
• Performs work in the timeframe and budget allotted

Requirements

• Proficient in using common Microsoft Windows Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel)
• Ability to set up virtual machine environments on a server
• Experience with version control
• Programming Languages/Skills: JavaScript/REACT, Python, MySQL, Postgres
• Understanding of standard communication protocols, such as TCP/IP, UDP

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, computer or software engineering, or computer science from a four-year college or university accredited program
• Two to 5 years’ professional work experience
• Prior experience/educational focus in software development for automation, script development, or laboratory simulators is considered a plus
• Railroad and/or public mass transit industry experience is considered a plus