Senior Systems Engineer

About this role

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.

About Advanced Power Technologies: At Advanced Power Technologies, we create the technologies that define the future of Power & Energy. We start with the customer of the future, understanding tomorrow's challenges and developing the innovations needed to solve them.  With prime product and industry groups, Advanced Power Technologies (APT) defines and delivers Caterpillar’s next generation of power system technologies. The organization leads product strategy, long term technology roadmaps, and lifecycle leadership for advanced power, electrification, electronic controls, software, and energy solutions across the entire range of Power and Energy applications around the world.

Our unique advantage comes from combining deep customer understanding, product knowledge, and technical expertise across the entire Power & Energy portfolio.  APT integrates hardware, software, and digital services to deliver scalable, reliable, and future‑ready power solutions. Partnering closely with product groups, engineering, and global delivery teams, APT balances near‑term business execution with long‑term technology leadership—enabling best in class electronics quality, fast response to market changes, differentiated customer value through vertical integration, improved uptime, and sustainable power systems across Caterpillar’s Power and Energy product portfolio.  If you're excited by innovation, solving complex engineering challenges, and helping define what's next, APT is where the future is built.

Role Definition We are seeking a Senior System Engineer to design, develop, and enhance electro-mechanical systems and mechatronic devices that optimize product and system performance. In this role, you will support Marine Propulsion Control (MPC) programs by developing requirements specifications in close partnership with product definition teams and cross-functional engineering stakeholders.

What You Will Do: • Define program scope and author control system requirements for Marine Propulsion Control programs.

• Partner with the Program Management Office (PMO) to develop project plans, align priorities, and deliver milestones on time.

• Lead controls lab testing, manage NPI controls issues, and drive timely resolution to support feature and milestone delivery.

• Guide and support validation teams by reviewing, prioritizing, and strengthening test plans.

• Support integration and lab testing activities to verify system performance and functionality.

• Review existing test plans for thoroughness, identify gaps, and recommend improvements.

• Provide software and systems troubleshooting support to application and product support teams.

Degree Requirement Bachelor’s degree in an accredited electrical engineering or computer engineering

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. 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.

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. Level Extensive Experience: • Uses subtle cues to determine the language and experience level of an individual or group.

• Introduces technical terminology to listeners in the context of the product or service.

• Uses effective analogies to help an audience understand a novel feature of a product or service.

• Explains important details as they relate to the basic value of the product or service.

• Approaches communication challenges from various angles to find the one that works.

• Proceeds to next level of information when audience is ready.

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 Working Knowledge: • Follows policies, practices and standards for determining functional and informational requirements.

• Confirms deliverables associated with requirements analysis.

• Communicates with customers and users to elicit and gather client requirements.

• Participates in the preparation of detailed documentation and requirements.

• Utilizes specific organizational methods, tools and techniques for requirements analysis.

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.

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