ETCS RBC Security Test Engineer (TCB / PKI / Secure Communication)

About the role

Hitachi Rail Romania is looking for an ETCS RBC Security Test Engineer based in Bucharest. The new member joins the RBC team and works alongside experts from Romania and Germany (Berlin) in a dynamic, complex environment. The engineer tests ETCS Level 2 software products such as the Radio Block Centre, which is a safety-critical railway application.

Key responsibilities

• Understand the ERA/Unisig specifications SS-114, SS-137 and SS-146
• Understand the cryptography applied
• Write test cases for positive and negative scenarios
• Test robustness and perform security testing
• Test certificates (validity, revocation, wrong or expired keys)
• Test message authentication

The role combines Linux, Ruby, OpenSSL, Wireshark/TCPDump, PKI, networking and test automation.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Transportation, Electronics, Mathematics, Physics or similar; an engineering background is a must
• Advanced requirements-based testing, Linux, TCP/IP networking, Tcpdump analysis, Wireshark, TLS and PKI (medium-advanced)
• Medium-advanced knowledge of ERA UNISIG subsets 137 and 146, cryptography concepts and cybersecurity testing
• Medium-level Ruby / Python scripting
• A plus: CENELEC EN 50128 / EN 50716, EN 50126 / EN 50129 experience and railway business / ETCS experience