KB Signaling is hiring: Product Designer - UI/UX in Melbourne
KB Signaling, Melbourne, FL, United States, 32935
Overview
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Product Designer, specializing in signaling systems and data analytics platforms within the railway industry, your primary purpose is to design and develop intuitive and efficient user interfaces. This role covers the full UI/UX lifecycle of development and documentation. You will create user-friendly dashboards and control panels that enable users to monitor and manage train movements, analyze performance data, and help ensure the safety and efficiency of railway operations. Your designs will influence user experience and support better decision-making and operational excellence across KB Signaling.
This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship. Preference will be given to applicants who live within a commutable distance of Melbourne, FL.
Main Responsibilities
- Contributing to the elaboration of product/system specification & architecture, in collaboration with the Product Designers or System Engineers
- Defining the software requirements specifications:
- Define the functional requirements, operational requirements, interface requirements, and requirements related to performance, safety, cybersecurity, RAM constraints
- Ensure that all requirements are verifiable (testability, etc.)
- Ensure traceability of the software requirements through the development cycle
- Defining the software architecture
- Elaborate the functional and structural breakdown into software components
- Allocate the requirements to the software components
- Define interfaces between software components
- Define the dynamical behavior of the software
- Validate feasibility via model simulation or mock-ups
- Making main technical choices for software development
- Select development tools, methodology (e.g., UML), programming languages, coding strategy and rules, and tailor processes to meet AGILE design methodology
- Contribute to the selection of the execution environment (processor, operating system, middleware, basic software…), together with the product architect, system engineering manager, and hardware architect
- Determining and validating major software design choices
- Performing software/software integration, together with the software designers
- Performing hardware/software integration, together with the hardware architect
- Specifying, designing, preparing and performing tests and verifications of deliverables
- Sustain the software
- Staying informed of the evolution of technologies through techno watch
- Contributing to standardization by reusing existing solutions or by defining reusable solutions, including COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf)
- Applying and ensuring the application of processes and standards
- Contributing to continuous improvement (REX: Return of Experience, process…)
Qualifications
Mandatory:
- Experience with Linux development, C++, & containerized software using Docker/Kubernetes
- Experience with Open Source Software development, tools, technologies, and distribution methods
- 10+ years experience in a similar capacity
- Experience with microservices architectures using containerized applications
- Experience with CI/CD methodologies and applications such as Jenkins build and test automation pipelines
- Experience in developing software to integrate business or process procedures with a monitoring and control UI
- Background in User Interface definition using mockups such as wire-frames, obtaining customer buy-off on designs, UI Style and branding consistency, underlying technologies (e.g., Angular), and development methodologies
- Testing experience to include the authoring of test plans, procedures, and reports, and the creation of automated tests
- Design and implementation experience in a GUI project for control and monitoring of complex systems
- Good oral and written English communication skills
- Ability to work with Engineering teams and product managers
- IoT embedded software development
- AGILE development methodology experience using the Atlassian suite of tools
- Experience in definition of REST APIs, data queuing software (e.g., MQTT)
- Background in process control or command and control systems
Desired:
- Concurrent engineering
- Experience developing a standard UI product line used by multiple customers
- Experience planning and leading customer user group workshops for GUI software, capturing customer requirements, and implementing customer-requested UI features
- Experience in Big Data Systems (Data Lakes), Data Mining tools and techniques (e.g., machine learning, natural language processing), and Open Source tools, and Data visualization using GUIs
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or other technical field required. Master's Degree preferred.
Additional information
Note: We are not able to offer immigration sponsorship for new hires. All applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without the need for current or future employment-based visa sponsorship.
Seniority level
- Mid-Senior level
Employment type
- Full-time
Job function
- Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
Industries
- Rail Transportation