Career Area:
Engineering

Job Description:

Job Summary:
As the Controls Systems Engineering Specialist, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership in the design, development, and enhancement of electro-mechanical systems and mechatronic devices to optimize products and system.

What You Will Do:
• Provides technical leadership in Designing advanced electrical control systems and integrating electronic systems into electrification applications.
• Providing technical leadership in Designing and implementing software to control and enhance electrification systems for charging and batteries.
• Provide technical direction in Identifying and addressing areas of product weakness in finished products.

What You Will Have:
Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.
• Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.
• Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.
• Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.
• Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.
• Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.

Communicating Complex Concepts: Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques to ensure clear understanding; ability to use summarization and simplification techniques to explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Uses subtle cues to determine the language and experience level of an individual or group.
• Introduces technical terminology to listeners in the context of the product or service.
• Uses effective analogies to help an audience understand a novel feature of a product or service.
• Explains important details as they relate to the basic value of the product or service.
• Approaches communication challenges from various angles to find the one that works.
• Proceeds to next level of information when audience is ready.

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
• Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
• Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
• Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
• Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
• Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.

Technology Advising: Knowledge of effective advisory methods and ability to provide valued information and advice to clients regarding products, technologies, services and solutions for a specific technology domain.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Assesses the current technology environment, expressed needs and initiatives of client organizations.
• Uses an effective consulting method to present technology solutions that resolve stated client business issues.
• Advises clients regarding a family of specific products, technologies or services in a technology domain.
• Demonstrates basic competence and sound business knowledge regarding specific products, technologies or services within a domain of technology expertise.
• Achieves consulting relationship rating of 'professional' by delivering timely, meaningful advice meeting client needs in a narrow set of specific technologies.

Conceptual Thinking: Knowledge of thinking and reasoning at a conceptual level; ability to identify the critical ideas and interdependencies among system elements that impact performance.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Presents only the most salient points, that is, those that have the largest potential impact.
• Links information patterns and trends to hypotheses.
• Synthesizes key issues, patterns and trends and summarizes the implications.
• Proposes alternative solutions when presented with problems or opportunities.
• Masters new concepts quickly.
• Simplifies complex ideas into easily understood concepts.

Embedded Systems: Knowledge of embedded systems and their applications; ability to develop embedded systems with varying levels of complexity to control the operations of the machine it is embedded within.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Demonstrates experience with software architecture when embedded systems become complex in scale.
• Develops embedded system software using compilers, assemblers, and debuggers.
• Develops embedded systems' prototype to ensure it meets performance and security expectations.
• Ensures the hardware and software requirements are met while structuring an embedded system.
• Manages embedded systems ranging from low to high complexity with multiple units and networks.
• Utilizes various debugging tools to reduce the number of bugs in an embedded system.

Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Plays an active or leading role in recording and storing requirement documents in various forms.
• Ensures the successful completion of all major activities, tasks and deliverables pertaining to the requirement analysis stage.
• Supervises the advanced use of requirements analysis tools and services, including prototyping and use cases.
• Produces detailed functional and information requirements models and documentation.
• Trains others on requirements walkthroughs and quality reviews.
• Utilizes automated diagramming tools to ensure traceability of requirements.

Education: Degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.

Summary Pay Range:

$128,470.00 - $192,710.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
• 401(k) savings plans*
• Health Savings Account (HSA)*
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
• Health Lifestyle Programs*
• Employee Assistance Program*
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
• Career Development*
• Incentive bonus*
• Disability benefits
• Life Insurance
• Parental leave
• Adoption benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Relocation is available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:
June 22, 2026 - June 29, 2026

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

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