Embedded Software Senior Engineer Specialist – Information Software Framework Architect

Caterpillar Inc.•Mossville, IL

20h•Onsite

About The Position

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. Your Work Shapes the World Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe. When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us. Job Summary: Come work on the Information Software team for Caterpillar machines & engines. Our Information Software team is developing operating system, middleware, and data transfer frameworks that Caterpillar Display & Telematics product lines will be using for years to come. You will help design, develop, configure, and test our high-quality software as a member of our team, focusing on iterative development and fast delivery of features utilizing up-to-date technologies and practices like Agile, C++, Rust, Linux, and emergent design. Join us and be a part of this exciting team!

Requirements

Analytical Thinking
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.
Effective Communications
Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
Maintains focus on the topic at hand.
Teamwork
Establishes and maintains effective working relationship with each team member.
Coordinates roles, responsibilities and interdependencies of all team members.
Identifies and addresses potential problems or issues within the team.
Works with large or multiple teams that span functions, issues, locations, and time zones.
Shows and promotes respect for differences and diversity.
Learns and utilizes special talents and work styles of team members.
Technical Excellence
Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.
Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.
Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.
Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.
Producing Results
Ensures time, resources, energy, and actions are focused on priorities that matter to the business.
Reliably meets all team commitments, quotas, and goals.
Communicates a strong sense of urgency about solving problems and getting work done.
Makes effective use of resources not under own direct control.
Rarely repeats mistakes; learns and adapts from prior errors.
Takes risks in improving products and services while holding self and others accountable.
Software Product Design/Architecture
Demonstrates experience with the architecture and design of major or multiple products.
Describes major software architecture alternatives and considerations.
Explains design considerations for middleware and operating systems.
Displays experience in estimating the cost of a specific design of a proposed product.
Facilitates design reviews and walkthroughs.
Analyzes benefits and drawbacks of specific software designs and architecture.
Requirements Analysis
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.
Technical Troubleshooting
Provides insight into alternative troubleshooting approaches and their applicability to solve problems.
Elaborates on ways of distinguishing between hardware, software and communications problems.
Plays a leadership role in resolving complex, multi-component failures.
Creates and oversees policies and procedures to ensure alignment with product and service requirements.
Builds standards to design and support troubleshooting situations and maintain cost effectiveness.
Develops and demonstrates an extensive knowledge base and best practice on how to troubleshoot non-recurring and performance-related problems.

Nice To Haves

Extensive experience with embedded software development, design, and architecture
Desire to work in a fast-paced Agile team environment, ability to read electrical schematics
Experience with GIT configuration management tool
Advanced degree in an accredited Engineering or Computer Science curriculum (BS EE, BS Computer Science or Computer Engineering)
Experience with scripting using Python
Development experience with Rust
Solid experience with Linux software development, including RTOS development (i.e. Free RTOS) and application framework architecture and design
Experience with Ethernet, TCP/IP, WiFi, Bluetooth low energy
Experience with CAN, J1939, and other data link protocols
Experience using Design Patterns and Object-Oriented programming
Experience with developing Unit Tests and Test-Driven Development leveraging continuous testing and integration
Experience using debugging tools for embedded systems (e.g. Lauterbach, GDB, Wireshark)

Responsibilities

Gathering and analyzing user/client requirements to create the software requirements specification (SRS) document.
Writing and implementing source codes of embedded systems and enhancing code samples of existing systems.
Testing and debugging embedded system software using different tools/methods available to improve code quality and optimize system performance.
Collaborating with other teams to provide postproduction support.