Job Description

Career Area:

Engineering

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.

Caterpillar’s Connectivity System Team is hiring a Connectivity System Senior Engineer (System Integration / Product Owner) with expertise in telematics, connectivity platforms, and system integration across embedded and enterprise systems.

In this role, you will work on highly complex and scalable connectivity solutions spanning across CAT and non-CAT assets. This role combines system integration engineering and product ownership, requiring end-to-end ownership of connectivity features across embedded systems, connectivity layers, and enterprise/cloud ecosystems.

You will collaborate with global teams including Product Groups (RI, CI, P&E), Intelligent Machine Systems (IMS), Cat Digital, and platform teams to deliver high-quality, data-driven connectivity solutions aligned with customer and business needs.

What You’ll Do (Job Duties)

• Own and manage connectivity features, driving end-to-end lifecycle from requirements definition, system design, integration, validation, and release
• Drive end-to-end system integration across embedded systems, connectivity modules (5G/LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth), and enterprise/cloud platforms, ensuring consistent system behavior and readiness
• Act as a Product Owner, maintaining and prioritizing feature backlog (WSJF or similar), leading backlog grooming, and ensuring alignment with business priorities and system architecture
• Define and manage system and feature requirements (SRS/MFRD) with full traceability across system, software, and validation
• Collaborate with product teams, Cat Digital, architects, and onboard/offboard engineering teams to deliver scalable connectivity solutions aligned with customer use cases
• Lead system validation and quality assurance, ensuring full feature coverage, production readiness, and robust integration across all subsystems
• Perform deep system-level debugging and root cause analysis across embedded, connectivity, and cloud layers to resolve complex issues
• Apply DFMEA and Built-In Quality (BIQ) practices to proactively identify risks and ensure high system reliability
• Drive data-driven decision making using validation data, system insights, and field feedback to continuously improve performance and quality
• Support release management, including Go/No-Go decisions, release readiness, and tracking feature delivery

Skill Descriptors

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.

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviours.

Level: Working Knowledge

• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.

Teamwork: Knowledge of the necessity and value of teamwork; experience with; ability to work cooperatively towards shared goals and being supportive of others at all levels.

Level: Working Knowledge

• Explains own role and responsibility within team.
• Actively participates in team meetings.
• Shares information, knowledge, and experiences openly and proactively.

Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.

Level: Working Knowledge

• Provides effective technical solutions to routine functional challenges via sound technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
• Effectively performs the technical job aspects, continuously building knowledge and keeping up-to-date on technical and procedural job components.
• Applies technical operating and project standards based on achieving excellence in delivered products, technologies and services.

Producing Results: Understanding of the criticality of getting things done in spite of current circumstances and the ability to utilize assigned resources and leverage back-channel resources (individuals or teams) to achieve or exceed planned outcomes.

Level: Working Knowledge

• Finds or creates ways to measure performance against goals.
• Identifies and exploits own strengths; solicits support from others to minimize limitations.
• Strives for excellence in performance by surpassing established standards.

Software Development: Knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.

Level: Extensive Experience

• Conducts walkthroughs and monitors effectiveness and quality of the development activities.
• Elaborates on multiple-development toolkits for traditional and web-based software.
• Has participated in development of multiple or large software products.
• Contrasts advantages and drawbacks of different development languages and tools.

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.

Technical Troubleshooting: Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical issues on hardware, software, application or operation.

Level: Working Knowledge

• Discovers, analyzes, and resolves hardware, software or application problems.
• Works with vendor-specific diagnostic guides, tools and utilities.
• Handles calls related to product features, applications, and compatibility standards.

Top Candidates Will Also Have

• Experience in Telematics / Connectivity / IoT systems, including 5G, embedded systems, and offboard integrations
• Understanding of latest technology advancements in connectivity, IoT, edge, and cloud platforms, and ability to apply them in defining new solutions
• Experience with Generative AI (GenAI) tools and practices to improve engineering productivity, automation, and system analysis
• Experience with Agile development, backlog prioritization, and NPI/CPI processes
• Experience working in large, global, matrixed organizations
• Strong interest in innovation-driven engineering and continuous technology advancement

Posting Dates:

September 7, 2026 - September 13, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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