Career Area:
Engineering
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World
Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.
When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don't just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in - the roads, hospitals, homes and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer's needs. Join us.
Description
To participate in the design and development of new and complex software engineering projects for release to production in a manner to ensure products provide superior performance, durability, quality, and serviceability.
Job Duties
For Caterpillar, digital means using technology to extract data from our machines and engines and transform it into valuable recommendations or "insights," to help customers make better, more informed decisions and help Caterpillar make robust products with the lowest total ownership cost. Our products generate and process large amounts of data from sensors, on-board models, and control algorithms in real-time creating real-world machine usage information. The integrated mechanical and electronic control systems, associated control algorithms and on-board information systems generate, store and transmit this critical machine information that is highly useful for product development and product improvement. Through data analytics and modeling, this information can be mined for actionable insights.
This is a position for a software engineer to develop Telematics on-board monitoring software for Caterpillar machine & engine applications. The candidate's duties will include but are not limited to: developing, configuring, and testing Telematics on-board software; troubleshooting and correcting software issues; and reporting development status. This position involves working closely with Telematics systems engineers, and other software development teams.
Basic Qualifications
Requires a bachelor degree in an accredited Engineering or Computer Science curriculum plus 3 to 7 years of experience, or an advanced degree in Engineering or Computer Science plus 2 to 6 years of experience.
BSEE, BSCE, or BSCS
3-5 years of development experience using C++ (with emphasis on C++11/14) programming languages
3-5 years of embedded software experience
3-5 years Development experience using Object Oriented Design
Experience working in a fast-paced, large and global Agile team environment
Top Candidates will also have
Strong customer focus
Experience using Linux
Experience in embedded controls development for Telematics applications in heavy machinery or automotive industry to gather data and remotely monitoring assets.
Experience with CAN, J1939, TCP/IP and other data link protocols
Experience using CAN based tools like CANoe and CANalyzer
Experience with GIT configuration management tool
Experience using Design Patterns in software development
Experience with developing Unit Tests and Test Driven Development
Experience working in Ubuntu
Additional Information
The location for this position is Mossville, IL
Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
This position may require less than 10% travel
Visa sponsorship is available for this position
Employee benefit details
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
Final details
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