Embedded Software Senior Engineering Specialist

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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.

The individual hired for this position will lead an agile development team to design, develop, integrate, and test software features on embedded electronic controls for use in Caterpillar machine applications primarily focused on Medium Wheel Loaders. This role will be critical in leading the software development teams working to update these applications to the latest hardware and software architectures along with positioning for future technology updates.

What You Will Do:

• Design, planning and coordination of all levels of software required to build production flash files
• Machine software feature development for both Real-Time and Linux Operating Systems
• Definition of detailed software specs
• Organization of individual subsystem diagrams and software libraries for integration
• Integration of software features taken from models and libraries to create software flash files
• Integration of configuration and calibration data
• Test plan development and software validation
• Leading deployment of SIL, AutoSAR, ACE Software Architecture, UMI Standardization
• Support and communication of software releases, including documentation required by field follow and/or customers for successfully updating software, wiring and components
• Identification and resolution of software defects, and proper issue list submissions and management
• Lead software design reviews
• Drive software commonality and reuse between different machine applications where possible

What Skills You Will Have:

Analytical Thinking:

•           Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.

Teamwork:

•           Works with large or multiple teams that span functions, issues, locations, and time zones.

Technical Excellence:

•           Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.

•           Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.

Producing Results:

•           Ensures time, resources, energy, and actions are focused on priorities that matter to the business.

•           Reliably meets all team commitments, quotas, and goals.

•           Communicates a strong sense of urgency about solving problems and getting work done.

•           Makes effective use of resources not under own direct control.

Software Product Design/Architecture:

•           Facilitates design reviews and walkthroughs.

•           Analyzes benefits and drawbacks of specific software designs and architecture.

Requirements Analysis:

•           Plays an active or leading role in recording and storing requirement documents in various forms.

•           Trains others on requirements walkthroughs and quality reviews.

Technical Troubleshooting:

•           Plays a leadership role in resolving complex, multi-component failures.

•           Develops and demonstrates an extensive knowledge base and best practice on how to troubleshoot non-recurring and performance-related problems.

Top Candidates Will Also Have:

• Extensive experience developing embedded software for electronically controlled mechanical systems
• Experience with modeling tools such as Matlab/Simulink in an embedded software environment
• Fundamental understanding of mobile machine operation, ideally construction equipment and operations
• Basic knowledge of Linux operating systems
• Experience with data link communications
• Experience with FMEA processes and a basic knowledge of electronic system failure modes
• Experience with embedded software development tools such as ClearCase, Git, debuggers, and compilers
• Strong communication skills, good organizational and time management skills, and the ability to identify needed actions and act to resolve issues with minimal oversight
• Advanced e