Control Systems Engineer

Caterpillar•Mossville, IL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

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 work as part of an engineering team to design, develop, integrate, and test software features on embedded electronic controls for use in Caterpillar Motor Grader machine applications.

Requirements

Requires a 4-year degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum
Analytical Thinking: Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.
Communicating Complex Concepts: Uses comparisons to familiar ideas when introducing a technical or novel feature.
Problem Solving: Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
Requirements Analysis: Describes basic concepts and major activities associated with requirements analysis.
Technical Troubleshooting and Testing : Describes problem identification, reporting and escalation procedures. Describes common hardware, software and communication problems; finds ways to resolve issues. Describes problem identification, reporting and escalation procedures.

Nice To Haves

Experience writing requirements, developing features or testing for Motor Graders or other similar heavy duty manufacturing equipment.
Electrical components / systems experience.
Read a schematic and troubleshoot basic machine wiring issues.
Embedded C software experience
Experience developing embedded real-time software or systems for mobile, earthmoving, agricultural, industrial, or off-highway applications
Experience with FMEA processes and a basic knowledge of electronic system failure modes

Responsibilities

Creation of detailed software specs from high level customer requirements
Electronics and software support for prove design machine builds and testing
Define datalink communications between controllers on J1939 and Ethernet
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