Senior Signals Engineering Specialist

STV • Empire State Building, NY

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About The Position

STV is seeking a highly experienced Senior Signals Engineering Specialist to join its Systems team. This role serves as a senior technical resource for the planning, design, integration, testing, and implementation of complex railway and transit signal systems. The specialist provides technical leadership across multidisciplinary projects, supports and mentors engineering staff, interfaces with clients and project stakeholders, and helps ensure signaling solutions are safe, reliable, constructible, and compliant with project requirements.

The role supports projects throughout the full lifecycle, from concept and preliminary engineering through final design, construction, testing, and commissioning. It includes technical oversight of signal engineering documentation, system integration, contractor and supplier submittals, and field activities. The specialist also supports project managers with technical scope, estimates, schedules, risks, and deliverables, and contributes expertise to client presentations, proposals, pursuits, and business-development activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
• At least 12 years of progressively responsible experience in railway, freight rail, commuter rail, and/or transit signal engineering.
• Demonstrated experience designing, integrating, testing, commissioning, or modernizing railway signal and train-control systems.
• Strong understanding of signal system principles, architecture, interfaces, operational requirements, and safety considerations.
• Experience preparing and/or reviewing signal engineering drawings, technical specifications, design calculations, system requirements, and related engineering documentation.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating signal systems with other railway disciplines and subsystems.
• Experience across multiple project lifecycle phases, from concept and preliminary engineering through final design, construction, testing, and commissioning.
• Ability to independently review complex engineering designs and identify technical risks and interface issues.
• Strong technical problem-solving skills and engineering judgment.
• Ability to lead technical discussions with clients, contractors, suppliers, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple technical assignments while maintaining quality, schedule, and project requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with major transit agencies, commuter railroads, freight railroads, or public transportation authorities.
• Experience with CBTC, PTC, interlocking systems, wayside signaling, automatic train control, or other modern train-control technologies.
• Familiarity with applicable AREMA, IEEE, FRA, FTA, NFPA, and agency-specific requirements.
• Experience with signal system Verification & Validation (V&V), Systems Assurance, Safety Certification, and/or RAMS-related activities.
• Experience supporting system cutovers, field testing, commissioning, and revenue-service implementation.
• Experience serving as a technical lead, discipline lead, or signal subject-matter expert on major transportation projects.
• Previous experience mentoring and developing engineers and technical staff.
• Experience developing technical scopes, estimates, proposals, and project work plans.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical specialist for rail and transit signal systems during planning, design, construction, testing, and commissioning.
• Develop, review, and provide technical oversight of signal system designs, drawings, specifications, calculations, and other engineering documentation.
• Support the design and implementation of conventional and advanced signaling and train-control technologies.
• Review signal plans, control tables, route and aspect information, circuit designs, interface requirements, equipment layouts, and related documentation.
• Lead or support technical evaluations of existing signal infrastructure and develop rehabilitation, modernization, and replacement strategies.
• Provide technical leadership for signal system integration with communications, traction power, vehicles, track, civil, electrical, operations, and other railway systems.
• Participate in design reviews, identifying technical risks, interface issues, constructability concerns, and potential design conflicts.
• Support development and review of technical specifications, design criteria, system requirements, interface documentation, testing procedures, and commissioning plans.
• Provide engineering support during construction, installation, testing, cutover, and commissioning.
• Review contractor and supplier submittals for compliance with contract requirements, design criteria, and applicable standards.
• Participate in factory and field testing, including system verification and validation.
• Support troubleshooting and resolution of complex signal and train-control system issues.
• Coordinate with clients, transit and railroad agencies, contractors, suppliers, and internal multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level signal engineers and specialists.
• Support project managers with technical scope development, level-of-effort estimates, schedules, risk identification, and technical deliverables.
• Participate in client meetings and technical presentations and represent the Systems team as a railway signaling subject-matter expert.
• Support proposals, pursuits, and business-development activities with technical expertise, project approaches, and scope development.

Benefits

• Health insurance, including an option with a Health Savings Account
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare, dependent care, and transit and parking where applicable
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment
• 401(k) Plan
• Retirement counseling
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Back-Up Dependent Care
• Parental Leave
• Continuing Education Program
• Professional Licensure and Society Memberships

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior