Senior Connectivity Systems Engineer

Caterpillar Inc.•Mossville, IL

1d•$112,710 - $169,060•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Connectivity Systems Engineer provides end-to-end technical leadership for developing, integrating, validating, and delivering machine connectivity capabilities. The role translates product and business needs into system requirements, technical solutions, interfaces, and implementation plans, while coordinating execution across embedded software, hardware, cloud, cybersecurity, and machine application teams. The engineer is the primary technical owner for assigned connectivity features and initiatives, leading them from concept and requirements through design, integration, validation, and production readiness. The position focuses on identifying dependencies early, resolving technical issues and trade-offs, and ensuring scalable, reusable solutions across Product Link and machine platforms. The role leads feature delivery, creates testing and validation strategies, troubleshoots system-level issues, and drives root cause analysis and resolution. It also gathers and refines customer connectivity requests, supports intake and prioritization, and translates requirements into Azure DevOps Epics, Features, and User Stories. The engineer serves as a technical interface across teams and stakeholders, supports long-term system evolution and obsolescence management with the aftermarket team, and advances connectivity technologies such as 5G and A7. This is a full-time, onsite position at Caterpillar’s Mossville, Illinois office, with up to 10% travel. Domestic relocation assistance is available; visa sponsorship is not available.

Requirements

Knowledge of and ability to work cooperatively in teams toward shared goals, supporting others at all levels.
Knowledge of a technology area and its application methods, with the ability to develop solutions to significant technical challenges.
Knowledge of requirements analysis tools, methods, and techniques, and the ability to elicit, analyze, and document functional and non-functional requirements.
Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools, and techniques, and the ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve hardware, software, application, or operational issues.
Ability to lead cross-functional execution, technical decision-making, and issue resolution without direct reporting authority.
Ability to translate customer and business needs into technical requirements and direction.

Nice To Haves

Experience with connectivity integration, telematics, machine systems, or connected products.
Experience partnering with Product Management, Engineering, and Platform teams to deliver complex technical solutions.
Demonstrated experience leading features or systems from requirements through integration, validation, and release.
Strong product support and operational experience, including troubleshooting and root cause analysis of complex system-level issues.
Proven ability to collaborate across embedded software, hardware, cloud, cybersecurity, and product teams to deliver customer solutions.
Experience translating customer or business needs into technical requirements.
Experience using Azure DevOps Epics, Features, and User Stories.

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end development, integration, validation, and delivery of machine connectivity features and capabilities.
Translate product and business needs into system requirements, technical designs, interfaces, and implementation plans.
Coordinate system integration across embedded software, hardware, cloud, cybersecurity, and machine application teams.
Develop product testing and validation strategies to ensure performance, reliability, and production readiness.
Troubleshoot complex system-level issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive technical issues through resolution.
Identify cross-system dependencies, technical risks, and design trade-offs early in development.
Align cross-functional teams on execution expectations, including scope, timelines, priorities, and ownership.
Serve as the primary technical interface between onboard teams, connectivity platforms, and product stakeholders.
Drive decision-making and resolution across system and organizational boundaries, influencing stakeholders without direct reporting authority.
Partner with the aftermarket team on long-term system evolution and obsolescence management.
Act as the system-level technical owner and provide technical leadership for assigned connectivity capabilities and initiatives through development, validation, and release.
Drive validation planning and execution for firmware and connectivity feature releases, ensuring release-gate readiness and adherence to quality standards.
Drive or support connectivity initiatives related to Tech Platform 1.0 and advance adoption of next-generation technologies, including 5G and A7.
Gather customer connectivity feature requests and work with the team to evaluate and prioritize demand.
Refine requests by identifying the requester, business need, funding status, business case, functional requirements, acceptance criteria, timelines, dependencies, and relative priority.
Translate business and customer requirements into Azure DevOps Epics, Features, User Stories, and clear technical direction.
Take feature requests through the team’s intake process and support prioritization and technical review.
Lead complex technical investigations and root cause analysis for connectivity and telematics systems.
Coordinate cross-team resolution of field, validation, firmware, and system integration issues.
Provide technical guidance and support for high-impact issues spanning multiple systems and teams.
Communicate complex technical concepts clearly and build strong working relationships across engineering teams and stakeholders.
Apply connectivity and telematics tools and technologies, including Azure DevOps, Datalink Protocols, Onboard Subscription hierarchy, Helios, DSP, VisionLink, and Snowflake.