**Career Area:** Engineering **Job Description:** **Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.** When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it. **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. **Job Summary:** Provides direction, communication, and engineering support for software design and development of complex architecture, technologies, components, products, or services. **Responsibilities:** + **Architectural Leadership** : Develop and lead the enterprise architecture strategy for embedded software systems, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical requirements. + **Solution Design** : Design high-quality, scalable embedded software architectures that meet the performance, safety, and security needs of the organization. Ensure integration with broader system architectures. + **Cross-functional Collaboration** : Partner with hardware teams, product management, and software development teams to define technical solutions that meet both customer and business needs. + **Embedded Systems Expertise** : Provide deep technical expertise in the design, development, and deployment of embedded software. Ensure architectures support the constraints and requirements typical of embedded environments (e.g., low power, limited memory, real-time operations). + **Technology Roadmap** : Establish and maintain a technology roadmap for embedded software systems, evaluating new technologies, tools, and frameworks to enhance the development lifecycle and system performance. + **System Integration** : Ensure that embedded software architectures can be seamlessly integrated into larger system architectures, including networking, data communication, and cloud or edge components. + **Governance & Standards** : Establish and enforce architectural best practices, coding standards, and documentation for embedded systems. Drive consistency across teams and projects through governance frameworks. + **Security & Compliance** : Ensure that embedded software systems comply with industry standards, safety regulations, and security protocols. Implement secure communication and data handling practices across embedded platforms. + **Mentorship & Leadership** : Act as a mentor to embedded software engineers, providing guidance and support to ensure that designs are consistent with enterprise goals. Lead architecture reviews and design discussions. **Education Requirement:** Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum. **Skill Descriptors:** **Technical Excellence:** + Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions. + Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues. + Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions. + Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems. + Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues. + Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs. **Effective Communications:** + Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching. + Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience. + Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position. + Communicates well downward, upward, and outward. + Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement. + Maintains focus on the topic at hand. **Technology Advising:** + Collaborates with an extended professional technology network to help clients effectively identify, plan for and accomplish technology objectives. + Supervises others in advising a range of clients across a myriad of products, technologies, services and solutions in a relevant technology domain. + Identifies and evaluates emerging technologies and advises clients regarding their potential business impacts. + Effectively consults with and conveys technology concepts, business impacts and other advice to senior client levels. + Trains others in developing technology business, channel management and client coaching. + Leverages formal certifications in mastery of multiple areas of technology in demonstrating credibility for client consulting. **Products and Services:** + Oversees development activities for multiple products or product lines. + Advises colleagues on implementation and operational considerations. + Coaches others on key factors that differentiate offerings from that of competition. + Develops procedures for product planning, development, and delivery cycles. + Promotes understanding of multiple product and service groups and their interdependencies. + Monitors regulatory and environmental issues and considerations. **Influencing Through Expertise:** + Communicates complex ideas and concepts in a clear and concise manner so that others can understand. + Exhibits depth and breadth of knowledge, skill, and experience in the relevant field. + Provides relevant, timely and objective subject matter/process expertise and key insight regarding multiple client business areas and affiliated fields. + Provides others with information, opportunities, or resources to develop their skills in the area of expertise. + Discards examples of persuasive arguments lacking evidentiary support or impact. + Coaches others to enhance their proficiency regarding the tenets, practices, and examples of the 'trusted advisor' credential **Product Development in Manufacturing:** + Utilizes appropriate tools and techniques for converting product requirements into a technical design. + Synthesizes input from customers and marketplace; translates to product development efforts. + Participates in analyzing local market conditions and recognizes new product opportunities. + Assists in implementing product development strategy for a specific function. + Selects appropriate methods to integrate environmental considerations into process or product design. **Troubleshooting Technical Problems:** + Evaluates business impact of failure and the criticality and timing of needed resolution. + Resolves difficult or high-impact equipment and systems problems. + Monitors machine performance and history; addresses excessive maintenance or repair needs. + Coaches others how to resolve integration or communications problems in multi-vendor environments. + Applies specific techniques for isolating a problem and defining resolution approach. + Uses advanced diagnostic techniques and tools for unusual or performance-related problems. **Additional Information** The location for this position is Mossville, IL & Dayton, OH. Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position. This position may require up to 20% travel. **What You Will Get:** 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 wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides: + Competitive Base Salary + Annual incentive bonus plan* + Medical, dental, and vision coverage + Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.) + 401k savings plan + Health savings account (HSA) + Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) + Short and long-term disability coverage + Life Insurance + Paid parental leave + Healthy Lifestyle Programs + Employee Assistance Programs + Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection) *Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines. **Final details** Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status. _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_ _._ For more information, visit caterpillar.com. To connect with us on social media, visit caterpillar.com/social-media \#LI **Posting Dates:** September 18, 2024 - October 2, 2024 Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen. EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply. Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community (http://flows.beamery.com/caterpillarinc/talcom) .