CBTC System Engineer

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a CBTC System Engineer to join our Transit and Rail/Systems Engineering Team in our New York Office located at MTA Headquarters.

The CBTC System Engineer will serve as the technical authority for the review, coordination, and oversight of all CBTC design and system integration activities. This position supports the agency by ensuring that the supplier’s and designer’s system architectures, interface definitions, and design deliverables comply with contract requirements, operational needs, and industry standards. The ideal candidate combines deep knowledge of CBTC hardware and software architecture with strong systems engineering and integration management expertise. They will possess a strong knowledge of vital and non-vital hardware/software architectures, and a deep understanding of NYCT operations. They will guide requirement traceability, oversee design validation, and ensure the CBTC system supports safe, reliable, and maintainable rail operations across all program phases.

Your Impact

• Provide technical leadership of the CBTC design and implementation process, ensuring compliance with Authority requirements, project standards, and best practices.
• Evaluate and guide system architecture decisions for CBTC subsystems, including vital/non-vital software, interlocking logic, ATS, telecoms, OCC, and train-borne equipment.
• Collaborate with the requirements management team to ensure requirements traceability and validation across all subsystems and interface control points.
• Review supplier and designer deliverables for technical completeness, ensuring system designs align with CENELEC (EN 50126/8/9), IEEE 1474, and FTA standards.
• Assess design impacts, risks, and dependencies across contracts; provide recommendations for mitigation and integration.
• Coordinate with NYCT operations, safety, and maintenance stakeholders to ensure the design supports operational efficiency, maintainability, and interoperability.
• Support and review the development of the System Integration Plan, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), and verification/validation documentation.
• Review and advise on system assurance, RAMS, and certification readiness deliverables.
• Provide guidance on I2S (Interface Interoperability Specification) compliance and its implications for system integration and migration at NYCT.
• Support coordination between the design, testing & commissioning, and safety certification teams to ensure seamless progression from design to validation.
• Track design maturity, configuration changes, and system readiness milestones, and report progress to the agency.
• Perform additional responsibilities as required to support technical reviews, stakeholder coordination, and program execution.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field
• 10+ years of relevant post-education experience in engineering, prior transit and rail experience, and infrastructure design.
• Deep understanding of CBTC architecture, including vital/non-vital subsystems, interlockings, ATS, telecoms, and OCC interfaces.
• Experience with requirements management tools (e.g., DOORS) and configuration control processes.
• Experience in CBTC technology. Minimum of 5 years of CBTC Project experience.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety, drug/alcohol, and harassment policies.
• Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs.
• Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
• Full understanding of vital and non-vital signal logic, relay-based control circuits, and their translation into CBTC subsystem software.
• Working knowledge of interlocking design, block layouts, overlap logic, and control line functions.
• Understanding of test sequencing, verification, and validation of signaling systems within mixed-mode operation.
   

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Engineering
• Proven experience supporting or overseeing complex brownfield CBTC deployments involving multiple suppliers, interfaces, and operational constraints.
• Familiarity with Interface Interoperability Specification (I2S) and NYCT’s signal design standards.
   

WSP Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations): $134,700 - $230,000

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

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