Senior Project Engineer, Rail in St. Louis, Missouri at Intramotev

At Intramotev, we are dedicated to liberating tons of freight from congested highways, reducing carbon emissions, and enhancing transportation efficiency. We are deploying self-propelled battery-electric railcars and vehicles to transform freight logistics and modernize a 200-year-old industry.

Based in St. Louis, MO, we are committed to fostering a work environment for every teammate that's welcoming, respectful, and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

We are seeking a Senior Project Engineer, Rail to run a multi-year deployment of our self-propelled battery-electric railcars and vehicles on a Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)-regulated short-line railroad. The program runs from regulatory approval through factory and site acceptance, commissioning, and staged on-track testing: remote line-of-sight switching moves, then remote teleoperation, then autonomous freight movements in a revenue-service demonstration. The successful candidate owns the program's integrated schedule, phase gates, and safety documentation, and acts as the day-to-day technical point of contact for the customer railroad and our suppliers.

This is a senior individual-contributor role with no direct reports. You'll direct field engineers and technicians on deployment work. We level candidates by experience, and we'll shape the role around a stronger candidate.

This is a full-time, in-office role based in St. Louis, MO. You'll work within a team of 3–10 engineers and travel frequently within Missouri (up to 50%) to the customer railroad site for commissioning, testing, operator training, and operations.

• Program Execution: Own the integrated program schedule, milestones, and phase-gate reviews from regulatory approval through revenue service; run status meetings and report progress to internal leadership and the customer railroad.

• Regulatory Coordination: Prepare and maintain the FRA test-program documentation, including the special-approval petition under 49 CFR Part 211, the agreed test conditions, safety performance thresholds, and data-reporting requirements. Coordinate FRA information requests with our regulatory and systems-safety engineers.

• Safety Documentation: Maintain operating protocols, standard operating procedures, stage-advancement criteria, and the monthly safety performance record that builds into the final Safety Case submitted to FRA.

• Testing & Commissioning: Plan and lead factory and site acceptance testing for each railcar; plan staged on-track testing; own movement logs and operational data packages; support integration with a legacy locomotive upfitted for multiple-unit (MU) operation.

• Field Deployment: Lead corridor and site surveys, site integration, and field mobilization at the customer railroad. Build the operator training and certification program and the workforce training curriculum.

• Customer & Partner Coordination: Serve as the primary technical point of contact for the customer railroad and our suppliers.

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Direct field engineers and technicians on deployment tasks; bring in our autonomy, software, electrical, mechanical, and manufacturing teams as the program needs them; carry railroad feedback back into product design.

• Program Controls & Reporting: Produce the quarterly program reports, FRA coordination records, and documented time records that a federally funded program requires.

Base salary: $110,000–$135,000 plus equity

Intramotev offers a comprehensive benefits package for all team members, including:

• Medical coverage: We cover 100% of employee medical premiums, plus low-cost dental and vision options.

• Vacation: Full-time employees enjoy unlimited paid time off.

• Equity: Full-time employees receive equity in the company.

• Parental leave: New parents receive paid time off to spend quality time with their family.

• At least a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Mathematics, or Science.

• 5+ years of engineering or project-engineering experience.

• Hands-on rail industry experience at a railroad (Class I, regional, or short line), a rail OEM, or a rail supplier.

• Experience running an engineering project with external stakeholders through schedule, milestones, and risk management, including serving as the primary technical point of contact for an external customer.

• Willingness to expand into technical areas beyond your area of expertise; ability to develop innovative and novel approaches to underspecified problems.

• Open-minded and comfortable working in a teaming environment as an individual contributor and as the technical lead for field deployment work.

• Fluent in both written and verbal English.

• U.S. Person (immigration or work visa sponsorship will not be provided).

Candidate should have a working knowledge of one or (ideally) multiple areas listed below:

• FRA regulations (49 CFR Parts 200–299), including waivers, special approvals, or test programs.

• System safety practice: hazard analysis, safety cases, or reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety (RAMS) engineering.

• Field test programs, commissioning, or acceptance testing on rail vehicles or equipment.

• Short-line or terminal-switching operations, maintenance-of-way, or highway-rail grade crossing safety and engineering.

• Locomotive or railcar mechanical systems, including MU and air-brake systems.

• Programs funded by federal grants (FRA, U.S. Department of Transportation): progress reporting, cost share, and compliance.

• Autonomous, remote-control, or electric rail vehicles.

• Project Management Professional (PMP) or an equivalent project-management credential.

Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education (e.g. Bachelor and/or Master) and typically 5 or more years' related work experience, or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g. Master + 3 years' related work experience).

This position offers a competitive relocation package for qualified candidates.

Intramotev is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

If you're passionate about rail project engineering and eager to lead the charge in autonomous rail technology, we'd love to hear from you!