Hardware Design and Development Engineer

Description

Job Summary: We are seeking a Hardware Design and Development Engineer for railway signaling systems, passionate about hardware design and development within a cutting-edge technological environment. Key Highlights: 1. Cutting-edge technological environment with real societal impact. 2. Team-oriented culture and continuous professional development. 3. Flexibility and work-life balance. Detailed Description CAF Signalling continues to grow! If you are passionate about hardware design and development, keep reading: What our colleagues highlight about working at CAF Signalling: **Cutting-edge technological environment**, with real societal impact: Each project represents an opportunity to implement tailored, scalable, and sustainable solutions that transform urban and interurban mobility. **Team culture:** Our work environment is characterized by camaraderie, collaboration, and mutual respect. **Professional development:** We invest in talent, offering continuous learning opportunities, autonomy in your work, and tangible prospects for professional growth. Flexibility and work-life balance are integral to our commitment to people. **Flexibility and work-life balance:** Hybrid work model, flexible working hours, intensive workday every Friday throughout the year and summer schedule adapted to your personal life. **Social benefits:** Complementary restaurant voucher added to your salary and remote-work allowance. Additionally, we offer a flexible compensation package or partially subsidized language courses. Moreover, we are a **Top European Employer 2026**, and our employees have rated us **3.8/4** on Glassdoor. **You’ll succeed if…** * You hold a degree in Industrial Engineering, specializing in or holding a bachelor’s degree in Electronics (or Industrial Electronics), Telecommunications Engineering with an Electronics specialization, ICAI (Industrial Engineering School of Madrid), Electronics Engineering specialization, or a degree in Physics (Electronics specialization). * You have experience designing safety-critical systems, preferably in the railway signaling domain. * You are familiar with EMC/EMI standards (preferably within the railway signaling context) and CENELEC (EN 5012x), as well as IEC standards (IEC 61000, IEC 61508\). * You have worked with PCB manufacturing verification systems using JTAG. \-You possess solid expertise in: HDL languages (Verilog, VHDL, or both), analog simulation with SPICE (any commercial version), PCB design (Siemens Xpedition, Altium Designer, Cadence Allegro…), programmable logic design (AMD Vivado, Intel Quartus Prime, Microchip Libero SoC…), C language, and embedded microcontroller development environments, MS Office proficiency, and version control tools (Subversion, Git…) * You communicate naturally in English, both in writing and speaking. **Responsibilities and Opportunities** Based at our Alcobendas office, you will join our product team, performing hardware design and development tasks for our railway signaling systems platform, carrying out the following general functions: * Design, debugging, and testing of high-speed PCBs featuring embedded microprocessors and communication interfaces. * Design, debugging, and testing of programmable logic devices. * Participation across the entire hardware development lifecycle for safety-related products, performing design, review, inspection, unit testing, integration testing, and system documentation. **What’s the process like?** We begin with a telephone conversation to get to know you and explain the role and company. Next, you’ll attend an individual online meeting with our technical and People teams, where you can learn in detail about team responsibilities, clarify any questions or curiosities regarding the vacancy. Finally, after evaluating your application, we will inform you of the final decision regarding the selection process as soon as possible. **Apply now and board the train to your future!**