Control Systems Engineering Specialist - Power Electronics & Software

Caterpillar Inc.•Mossville, IL

7d•$128,470 - $192,710•Onsite

About The Position

As a Control Systems Engineering Specialist, you will provide technical leadership and program execution for L3 electrification subsystems, including motors, generators, and DC/DC converters. This role is responsible for leading subsystem control programs from planning through release, including managing release content, schedules, budgets, risks, and cross-functional alignment. In addition to program leadership, the successful candidate will contribute directly to controls and/or software development for electrification applications, ensuring robust technical solutions that meet quality, cost, and delivery expectations.

Requirements

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

Nice To Haves

Experience in embedded systems
Knowledge or experience in electric drive systems
Controls or software development experience
MatLab / Simulink experience
C programming language experience

Responsibilities

Lead L3 electrification subsystem control programs for motors, generators, and DC/DC converters, ensuring alignment with product plans, technical requirements, and business priorities.
Manage release content, schedules, budgets, and delivery commitments for assigned electrification subsystem programs.
Coordinate cross-functional execution across controls, software, systems, components, product groups, validation, and program teams to deliver integrated subsystem solutions.
Develop, review, and support release of controls and/or software content for electrification applications.
Identify and manage program risks, technical issues, resource needs, and tradeoffs to maintain delivery commitments.
Provide technical guidance and decision support to ensure L3 subsystem controls and software solutions meet performance, quality, safety, and reliability expectations.
Develop controls or software for the programs that are being executed.