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.

Role Definition This role is responsible for the design, integration, validation, and deployment of remote services on vehicles or machines. This role ensures seamless integration of hardware, software, communications, and cloud-based services to enable features such as remote monitoring, diagnostics, software updates, data analytics, and fleet management.

The engineer works cross-functionally with mechanical, electrical, software, cybersecurity, and service teams to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable remote service solutions throughout the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

• Develop system requirements, interface definitions, and functional specifications for remote service features
• Translate customer, regulatory, and business requirements into technical system solutions
• Clearly define remote service strategies, support product group alignment activities and adoption.
• Drive improvements to system tools and support system teams in the effective deployment and management of remote service features
• Plan and track system-level testing, validation, and verification of remote services features
• Support vehicle or machine-level integration testing, including lab, bench, and field testing
• Contribute to continuous improvement of remote services features based on field data and customer feedback
• Provide both people and technical leadership in system integration and software development that supports the enterprise remote service strategy.
• Provide program status and development timing updates to stakeholders and product teams.

What you will have:

• 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.
• 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.

Top candidates will have:

• Ability to approach communication challenges from various angles based upon audience.
• Experience and knowledge of embedded systems and multi-system integration.
• Involvement with NPI deployment in machine programs
• Capable of successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems using standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
• Strong communication skills

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 with this position.

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Summary Pay Range:

$112,710.00 - $169,060.00

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.

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits

• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)

• 401(k) savings plans

• Health Savings Account (HSA)

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

• Health Lifestyle Programs

• Employee Assistance Program

• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts

• Career Development

• Incentive bonus

• Disability benefits

• Life Insurance

• Parental leave

• Adoption benefits

• Tuition Reimbursement

• These benefits also apply to part-time employees

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Relocation is available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. 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.

Posting Dates:

March 13, 2026 - March 26, 2026

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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