Future jobs for IT specialists and developers in the railway industry
Long-distance routes, underground railways, industrial plants: the railways form an important basis for sustainable transport. But they’re facing great challenges. Increasing traffic volume requires more modern solutions. Openness to new ideas are called for.
The company's experts closely monitor the opportunities arising from other disciplines. "This enables us to continuously improve or develop new products," explains Rosenberger. "Our specialists approach specific requirements with their own ideas. We support them by providing an appropriate infrastructure. For work on embedded software and hardware, we rely on modern development tools such as finite element simulation methods, 3D printing, in-house PCB prototyping and our own SMD assembly line," he describes. Field tests are carried out on a busy test track near the location in Upper Austria, but also in test installations around the globe.
Increasing amounts of data from new solutions also bring new requirements with regard to storage, evaluation and processing. App-based applications and the realisation of server clouds are moving into focus. This is also reflected in the team structure, says Rosenberger: "We also deal with topics and technologies that at first glance have nothing to do with our business. This is why more and more colleagues from areas such as signal processing, physics or computer science - with a focus on distributed computing, big data or artificial intelligence, for example - are joining our workforce."
Günther Grill is one of these colleagues. After completing his master's degree in "Information Engineering and Management" at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg, he joined Frauscher. "Train detection, monitoring of track condition and infrastructure: these things are tied to certain criteria. We work closely with our 13 foreign locations and exchange ideas. We make use of an innovative communication infrastructure and we travel to meet face to face. When developing solutions, we work with Kotlin and modern frameworks. We carry out programming in all areas: from low-level-embedded programming to web frontend with Angular and Typescript," he says.
Rosenberger underlines the importance of the changes that the company is undergoing: "With our solutions, we want to contribute in ensuring that railways will remain an attractive transport provider in the future. To this end, we offer our employees a modern workplace. This is noticeable at all levels and ranges from flexible working hours and health programmes to free meals. We are also planning to open a second Austrian location in Vienna. Therefore enabling and supporting even more international interactions with our global colleagues and partners – and of course offer employees an attractive employment experience".
