Job Description
Req ID:464898
At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, more than 80 000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.
Job Title (Job Code): Hardware Manager / Hardware Architect (HW) (EN-HA-00_001; EN-HA-00_002)
- Deliver hardware solutions for product
- Optional role: Hardware Development Manager - Ensure QCD (Quality Cost Delivery) management of hardware development activities
Note: Hardware Architect can also endorse the activities of Hardware Designer and/or Hardware Validation Manager.
Organisation structure (job belongs to..)
Development Center (DC) or Regional Center (RC)
Reports directly to:
DC/RC Hardware Metier Manager or Deputy
Other reporting to:
N/A
Direct reports:
HW Design Engineers, FPGA Designers
Network & Links
Internal
- Product Architects and/or Product Designers, Software (SW) Architects,
- Hardware (HW) Designers, Mechanical Designers, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA Designers), HW Validation, HW Technologist
- RAM Engineers
- Verification & Validation (V&V) Architects and Designers
- Quality Assurance Managers
- Safety Assurance Managers and Engineers
- Cybersecurity Managers and Engineers
- Industrialization & Manufacturing, Sourcing
External
- External Subcontractors, Suppliers
Key accountabilities:
- Contribute to the elaboration of product specification & architecture, in collaboration with the Product architect
- Perform HW activities for product development:
- Define the hardware requirements specifications, by refining system requirements elaborated by the Product architect:
- Define or refine the functional, operational and interfaces requirements and the requirements linked to performance / Reliability Availability Maintainability Safety (RAMS) / environmental… constraints
- Ensure that all the requirements can be verified (testability, …)
- Define the hardware architecture, by refining product breakdown:
- Elaborate the functional and structural breakdown into HW components (boards, mechanics, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), …)
- Allocate the requirements to the HW components (including EMC & thermal constraints)
- Define the internal interfaces between the HW components
- Assess and verify the feasibility of the solution
- Define the HW interfaces for the SW
- Contributes with the industrialisation manager to the definition of the production test needs and strategy (bed of nails, functional, burnin…)
- Define main technical choices for HW development
- Defines the appropriate methods to apply and tools to use for the development.
- Arbitrate and validates major HW design choices for sub parts
- Defines and execute the Hardware architecture verifications by analysis and integration test
- Execute the HW Validation Manager activities if applicable
- Contribute and support the HW/SW integration and product V&V
- Define serial test requirements and support the industrialization teams for the industrialization of the product
- Sustain the Hardware part of the product during the whole life cycle, including obsolescence analysis, manufacturing, and field return expertise
- Contribute to standardisation by reusing existing solutions or by defining reusable solutions, including COTS (Component Off the Shelf)
- Support the externalized development of “Component on Specification” through execution of document proofreading or design reviews.
- Apply and ensure application of processes and standards
- Contribute to continuous improvement of the metier by formalizing Return of Experience.
- Contributes to the improvement of the metier through technology survey
- If Hardware Development Manager (optional)
- Manage Hardware development:
- Quote hardware activities for new development or gaps on existing products.
- Contribute to the QCD Management of the Programs or Projects
