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 join 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!

Caterpillar is the world leader in construction and mining equipment, delivering industry leading software enabled products and solutions that transform the way its customers connect and interact with its mobile equipment and, if you are an innovative and motivated engineer with the right skills, we have a career impacting opportunity for you to join the Medium Wheel Loaders (MWL) Product Group, part of Caterpillar’s Earthmoving Division, as a Senior Embedded Software Engineer!   In this role you will own the development, validation and maintenance of embedded software systems and applications that will enable advancement of its new technology.   In this exciting role, you will contribute to the requirements development, requirements decomposition, concept, development, and design of complex software components, subsystems, or processes that will be used in our machines today and in the future.  You will get ample opportunity to perform complex analysis work, identify design problems, and resolve problems. As a member of a highly engaged team, you will develop the embedded software features that make Medium Wheel Loader machines easier to operate, improve operator productivity through Assist Features and Production Management and provide actionable information to machine operators and owners supporting continued product leadership in this critical market.

Specifically, in this role, you can expect to:

• Define requirements and detailed specifications for embedded software systems.

• Develop embedded software systems and applications through New Technology Introduction (NTI) and New Product Introduction (NPI) development phases.

• Collaborate closely with software teams from other Caterpillar Divisions to leverage existing software systems.

• ​Incorporate industry standard software systems where appropriate to reduce cost and achieve high compatibility with off the shelf components.

• ​Assess application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices.

• ​Write code that meets industry and Caterpillar standards and delivers the desired functionality.

• ​Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation.

• ​Define interfaces between software layers.

• ​Continually learn and stay abreast of innovative technology, mentor and coach enterprise team members, and deepen their professional network. 

• ​Test software on Caterpillar earthmoving equipment.

• Engage in technical discussions; participate in technical designs and present technical ideas through white boarding.

• ​Execute in a fast pace delivery mode and focus on delivering tasks to meet the product release goal through Agile methodology.

• ​Be an expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and have the ability to implement them using language of choice (see Preferred Skills).

To be successful in this role, you must bring (Basic Qualifications):

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field AND at least 3 years of direct industry experience programming in embedded C/C++ OR a master’s degree in computer science or related field accompanied by 2 years of direct industry experience (or serving industry in an academic setting) programming in embedded C/C++.

• Solid object-oriented programming, design and problem-solving skills

• ​Demonstrated excellent communication skills and work experience using Agile methodologies.

• ​Demonstrated ability to work quickly within a collaborative environment.

• Demonstrated ability to work under minimal supervision.

• ​Direct work experience with GIT (or similar) version control.

• ​Development experience in a Linux environment.

• ​Experience in developing embedded software systems.

Top candidates will also bring (desired but not required):

• Experience with C, C++, Python

• Experience with real-time operating systems

• Embedded systems development experience: multi-threading, multi-process

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 day one benefits (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of a yearly bonus.

Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).

Final details

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Relocation assistance is available for this position.

ISE assignment is not available for this position

This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O.  As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers .

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