Software Design Engineer

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Our partner company is a major global leader in the nuclear energy market recognized for its innovative solutions and value-added technologies for designing, building, maintaining, and advancing the international nuclear fleet. Offering a full range of reactor services requires an unparalleled passion and sense of purpose connected to their company’s mission and vision.
Essential to our partner's mission are their employees who provide a unique set of skills, knowledge, and experience that support us in providing competitive, reliable, and safe nuclear power plants. Their commitment to their employees is recognized through their competitive total rewards package. Enjoy competitive compensation, generous benefits and take part in innovative projects and development opportunities.
Our partner company is seeking a Software Design Engineer for their office in Budapest or in Debrecen, Hungary. Partial remote may be considered.


Software Design Engineer
Safety Instrumentation and Control system design

The Instrumentation and Control (I&C) system is the brain and central nervous system of the power plant. Its purpose is to secure the production of electricity in a safe and controlled environment.
The instrumentation and control systems are adapted to the design of each reactor, the needs of utilities and the standards of the nuclear safety authorities in each country. It’s an extremely elaborate system that measures, monitors, checks, controls, communicates and protects the plant’s operations.
Their teams design, manufacture, install and maintain cutting-edge nuclear Instrumentation & Control (I&C) solutions ensuring the safety, availability and reliability of nuclear power plants throughout the world.
As part of the Instrumentation and Control design engineers, your mission will be to design, document and implement the I&C system of the nuclear power plant.

Tasks: 

• Design, documentation and implementation of Instrumentation and Control systems for nuclear power plants
• Implementation of the Safety I&C application software based on the function specification and concepts
• Validation and implementation of process engineering requirements
• Specification and clarification of technical and organizational interfaces in the scope of the contractual and technical framework
• Examination of system behavior of the chosen hardware platform running application-specific user software
• Continuous improvement of processes and technical solutions
• Participation to proposal activities for the scope of Instrumentation and Control system design

Required qualification:

• University degree in computer science, electrical engineering, automation technologies, physics etc.
• Three-to-five years of experience in software development or systems engineering
• Fluent English knowledge (both written and verbal)
• Traveling within Europe mainly Germany and France is needed (approx. 12 weeks per year, flexible)
•  Organized and structured approach to work
• Willingness to learn and initiative of one's own
• Team- and communication orientated
• Basic programming skills (for example, Python)
• Resolute and decisive style of working

Desired attributes: 

• Experience in Safety I&C design, the related codes, rules and standards
• Experience working in international project teams
• Experience in nuclear industry is desirable but not essential
• Driving license
• German or French knowledge is appreciated