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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.
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.
Description To direct and participate in the concept and design of complex engineering product or process projects for release to production in a manner to ensure products provide superior performance, durability, quality, and serviceability.
This role is to help build the foundation of our enterprise engineering and manufacturing Generative AI capabilities.
You will work on a wide range of initiatives supporting cutting-edge AI research and development.
You will work with a team of architects, engineers and SME's to envision the target state of our capabilities while helping to design and implement key solutions.
Job Duties This position represents the journey level position within design engineering.
The key role of a Design Engineer Specialist is that of contributor to the planning and delivery of a project.
This position will be accountable for contributing to the concept, development, and design of complex engineering and manufacturing tools and processes that use generative or traditional Artificial Intelligence.
This position performs complex analysis work, identifies design problems, and resolves problems.
Although this position may be the transition from individual contributor to team leadership, the major focus of the job is on technical delivery.
Incumbents may work more directly with different units, suppliers, customers, and/or other teams.
This requires the ability to communicate technical information in a concise and accurate manner.
Decisions made may affect the project team and its delivery of the project.
Decisions may significantly impact on negotiations with suppliers, leveraging new technologies, warranty, costs, sales, and customer perception.
Strong communication, leadership, project management and business management skills are essential.
Major challenges facing incumbents are keeping up to date with technology and demonstrating technical expertise in a specialty area.
This position must demonstrate the ability to develop and manage a complex project to plan.
Technical leadership skills are essential and the incumbent must be able to communicate effectively across the organization.
Key areas of responsibility encountered in this role may include any or all of the following: design and promote new products and processes; contribute to establishing strategies for new process and product programs; develop and manage the project/program to the plan; perform needs analysis and initiate ideas; evaluate new products and/or processes, perform product/process maintenance; keep up to date on new technologies or develop new technologies; communicate technology to customers, team members, suppliers and other units; support and advise other engineers, managers, marketing personnel, customers and suppliers, mentor, coach and develop others, represent company externally.
Engineers must manage their own development, continuously learning through experience and staying abreast of technology.
A Sr.
Engineering Specialist – Design should develop technical expertise in a specialty area.
Individuals in this position will also want to focus on gaining increased knowledge of the business including the financial aspects.
Other skills critical to this position are failure analysis and problem-solving skill, spatial and conceptual design skill, product and process definition skill and knowledge of Caterpillar products and those of the competition.
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.
• 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: 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 behaviors.
Level Extensive Experience: • Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
• 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.
Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
Level Extensive Experience: • Clarifies and handles multiple concurrent and diverse activities.
• Shifts focus among several efforts as required by changing priorities.
• Addresses potential conflicts that impact current delivery commitments.
• Works with or leads others to re-prioritize work and reschedule commitments as necessary.
• Responds to shifting priorities while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work.
• Demonstrates an expectation that there will be ongoing shifts in demands and priorities.
Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
Level Extensive Experience: • 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.
Product Design and Development: Knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production.
Level Extensive Experience: • Develops organizational standards and processes in order to maximize complex product services' efficiency and effectiveness.
• Creates and introduces new techniques that expedite or simplify the development process.
• Supervises the management of multiple and diverse types of products or services.
• Develops proof-of-concept exercises to prove or disprove validity of proposed products.
• Advises on the appropriate solutions to complex product design and development problems.
• Designs working prototypes of a variety of proposed products or services.
Basic Qualifications Requires a Bachelor’s degree in an accredited Engineering or Computer Science curriculum plus 7+ years of experience or a Master’s degree in an Engineering or Computer Science, plus 5+ years of experience or a doctorate degree plus 2+ years of experience.
Top Candidates will also have Familiarity with building large-scale AI products, Generative AI solutions, or platforms for Natural Language Processing, speech, computer vision, or recommendation systems.
Software development experience in support of enterprise-grade solutions.
Experience with cloud platforms and distributed computing for scalable model training.
Ability to iterate rapidly with researchers and engineers to improve product experience.
Incumbents must have demonstrated excellent analytical skills and the ability to perform complex assignments.
Requires a self-starter with strong technical leadership skills.
Must have ability to communicate technical information effectively with team members and others in the work group, as well as employees in other units, customers, and suppliers.
Additional Information The location for this position is Mossville, IL, Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL, and Champaign, IL.
Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
This position will require less than 10% travel.
Employee benefit details Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career.
Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance.
We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
Final details Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method.
If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status.
This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O.
As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.
S.
which can be found through our employment website at www.
Caterpillar.
com/Careers .
For more information, visit caterpillar.
com.
To connect with us on social media, visit caterpillar.
com/social-media #LI Posting Dates: February 22, 2024 - March 7, 2024 Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
EEO/AA Employer.
All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community .
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.
Description To direct and participate in the concept and design of complex engineering product or process projects for release to production in a manner to ensure products provide superior performance, durability, quality, and serviceability.
This role is to help build the foundation of our enterprise engineering and manufacturing Generative AI capabilities.
You will work on a wide range of initiatives supporting cutting-edge AI research and development.
You will work with a team of architects, engineers and SME's to envision the target state of our capabilities while helping to design and implement key solutions.
Job Duties This position represents the journey level position within design engineering.
The key role of a Design Engineer Specialist is that of contributor to the planning and delivery of a project.
This position will be accountable for contributing to the concept, development, and design of complex engineering and manufacturing tools and processes that use generative or traditional Artificial Intelligence.
This position performs complex analysis work, identifies design problems, and resolves problems.
Although this position may be the transition from individual contributor to team leadership, the major focus of the job is on technical delivery.
Incumbents may work more directly with different units, suppliers, customers, and/or other teams.
This requires the ability to communicate technical information in a concise and accurate manner.
Decisions made may affect the project team and its delivery of the project.
Decisions may significantly impact on negotiations with suppliers, leveraging new technologies, warranty, costs, sales, and customer perception.
Strong communication, leadership, project management and business management skills are essential.
Major challenges facing incumbents are keeping up to date with technology and demonstrating technical expertise in a specialty area.
This position must demonstrate the ability to develop and manage a complex project to plan.
Technical leadership skills are essential and the incumbent must be able to communicate effectively across the organization.
Key areas of responsibility encountered in this role may include any or all of the following: design and promote new products and processes; contribute to establishing strategies for new process and product programs; develop and manage the project/program to the plan; perform needs analysis and initiate ideas; evaluate new products and/or processes, perform product/process maintenance; keep up to date on new technologies or develop new technologies; communicate technology to customers, team members, suppliers and other units; support and advise other engineers, managers, marketing personnel, customers and suppliers, mentor, coach and develop others, represent company externally.
Engineers must manage their own development, continuously learning through experience and staying abreast of technology.
A Sr.
Engineering Specialist – Design should develop technical expertise in a specialty area.
Individuals in this position will also want to focus on gaining increased knowledge of the business including the financial aspects.
Other skills critical to this position are failure analysis and problem-solving skill, spatial and conceptual design skill, product and process definition skill and knowledge of Caterpillar products and those of the competition.
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.
• 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: 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 behaviors.
Level Extensive Experience: • Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
• 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.
Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
Level Extensive Experience: • Clarifies and handles multiple concurrent and diverse activities.
• Shifts focus among several efforts as required by changing priorities.
• Addresses potential conflicts that impact current delivery commitments.
• Works with or leads others to re-prioritize work and reschedule commitments as necessary.
• Responds to shifting priorities while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work.
• Demonstrates an expectation that there will be ongoing shifts in demands and priorities.
Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
Level Extensive Experience: • 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.
Product Design and Development: Knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production.
Level Extensive Experience: • Develops organizational standards and processes in order to maximize complex product services' efficiency and effectiveness.
• Creates and introduces new techniques that expedite or simplify the development process.
• Supervises the management of multiple and diverse types of products or services.
• Develops proof-of-concept exercises to prove or disprove validity of proposed products.
• Advises on the appropriate solutions to complex product design and development problems.
• Designs working prototypes of a variety of proposed products or services.
Basic Qualifications Requires a Bachelor’s degree in an accredited Engineering or Computer Science curriculum plus 7+ years of experience or a Master’s degree in an Engineering or Computer Science, plus 5+ years of experience or a doctorate degree plus 2+ years of experience.
Top Candidates will also have Familiarity with building large-scale AI products, Generative AI solutions, or platforms for Natural Language Processing, speech, computer vision, or recommendation systems.
Software development experience in support of enterprise-grade solutions.
Experience with cloud platforms and distributed computing for scalable model training.
Ability to iterate rapidly with researchers and engineers to improve product experience.
Incumbents must have demonstrated excellent analytical skills and the ability to perform complex assignments.
Requires a self-starter with strong technical leadership skills.
Must have ability to communicate technical information effectively with team members and others in the work group, as well as employees in other units, customers, and suppliers.
Additional Information The location for this position is Mossville, IL, Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL, and Champaign, IL.
Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
This position will require less than 10% travel.
Employee benefit details Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career.
Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance.
We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
Final details Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method.
If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status.
This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O.
As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.
S.
which can be found through our employment website at www.
Caterpillar.
com/Careers .
For more information, visit caterpillar.
com.
To connect with us on social media, visit caterpillar.
com/social-media #LI Posting Dates: February 22, 2024 - March 7, 2024 Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
EEO/AA Employer.
All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community .
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