Machine Network Team Leader

Career Area

Engineering

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.

The Machine Network Team Leader is responsible for leading a team creating and implementing advanced communication and network technologies on current and future machine platforms. This role will ensure seamless integration of electrical/electronic (E/E) architecture, technology strategies, and communication frameworks to deliver deterministic, secure, and scalable machine operations. Provides Technical leadership in the Design, development, and enhancement of electro-mechanical systems and mechatronic devices to optimize products and system.

What You Will Do

• Provides technical leadership in Designing advanced electrical control systems and integrating electrical and mechanical systems.
• Providing technical leadership in Designing and implementing software and procedures to control and enhance electro-mechanical systems and mechatronic devices performance in collaboration with scientists.
• Providing technical leadership in Designing and prototyping mechatronic devices with motors, solenoids, gears, sensors, and springs.
• Provide technical direction in Identifying and addressing areas of product weakness in finished products.
• Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.

What You Will Have

• 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.
• 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.
• Technology Advising: Knowledge of effective advisory methods and ability to provide valued information and advice to clients regarding products, technologies, services and solutions for a specific technology domain.
• 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.
• Product Development in Manufacturing: Knowledge of methodologies, tools and techniques of product development; ability to design, build and manage manufacturing of new products.

Top Candidates Will Have

• A bachelor's degree in an accredited Engineering or Computer Science program
• Knowledge of industry standards (AUTOSAR, IEEE, SAE), automotive Ethernet, CAN FD, and MACsec.
• Expertise in communication architecture, distributed applications, and network resource management.
• Strong knowledge of automotive network technologies and scalable network design principles.
• Proficiency in automotive network security, functional safety, and compliance frameworks.

Additional Details

This position requires the candidate to work full-time at the Mossville, IL office. Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position. Visa sponsorship is NOT available for this position.

Summary Pay Range: $147,760.00 - $221,640.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Key skills/competency

• Electrical control systems
• Mechatronic devices
• Embedded systems
• Network technologies
• Automotive Ethernet
• CAN FD
• MACsec
• Communication architecture
• Functional safety
• Product development