Principal Software Engineer

Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

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 at Caterpillar Inc.

Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers. With over 1.5 million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world.

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.

Job Summary:

As a Principal Software Engineer within the AI and Dealer Applications organization, you will be at the forefront of innovation, application design and software development.  Your responsibilities will include working with digital product management to refine business requirements intended to drive opportunity management in support of the 2030 One Funnel initiative.  You will collaborate with peer architects, software engineers, user experience experts and cybersecurity specialists to build secure, scalable and fault tolerant solutions able to run in the AWS cloud environment and take advantage of Caterpillar's Helios digital platform.  

What You Will Do:

• Designing, modifying, developing, writing and implementing software programming applications for target system using agile methods.

• Acquiring client requirements; resolving workflow problems through automation optimization.

• Writing source codes for new applications, and/or generating and enhancing code samples for existing applications.

• Utilizing automated testing tools to perform the testing and maintenance.

What You Will Have:

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Software Development Life Cycle: Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.
Software Integration Engineering: Knowledge of software integration processes and functions; ability to design, develop and maintain interfaces and linkage to alternative platforms and software packages.
Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.
Software Product Technical Knowledge: Knowledge of technical aspects of a software products; ability to design, configure and integrate technical aspects of software products.
 

Considerations for Top Candidates: 

We are looking for a technical leader passionate about creating innovative solutions utilizing cloud, GenAI and related leading-edge tools to solve business problems.  To stand out, you should be able to demonstrate the following:

• Collaboration with business stakeholders to create product strategy and engineering managers to develop execution plan.

• Designing and delivering modern single page applications built on current technology stacks including React, Redux, Figma and Javascript/Typescript.

• Rapidly build product wireframes utilizing Figma and building proof of concepts for stakeholder review.

• Demonstratable experience in applying GenAI efficiencies in day-to-day software design, development and delivery activities.

• Applying software and architecture design patterns to build scalable and robust solutions.

• Incorporating cybersecurity practices and standards to all aspects of product development lifecycle.

Additional skills:

• Proficient with web application p