Career Area:
Engineering
Job Description:
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
Caterpillar is seeking a Automation Technology Strategist to help lead the development of technology products for the mining industry focusing on guidance and control products. This role will serve as the Product Architect for the mining Detect, Terrain, Fleet, and Command (L8) product lines. The Product Architect's primary accountability will be to define product roadmaps and product architectures that enable technology product portfolio growth, align with emerging technologies and industry trends, and support Caterpillar machine market and product strategies. The roadmaps shall define incremental product enhancements, aligned with planned NPI cycles and the long term business plan, that enable the migration of the current technology product lines into a comprehensive, differentiated next generation product portfolio. Roadmaps will focus on a zero to five year time frame and apply to both surface and underground mining applications.
The Product Architect will be accountable to collaborate with customers, internal partners, machine product groups, and external partners and suppliers to identify solutions and define site level product requirements. The architect will cascade site product requirements to subsystem/component levels requirements and gain alignment with internal and external partners on subsystem/component strategies. The Product Architect will also work with machine product groups to align technology product strategies with machine product strategies and ensure machine products are built technology ready.
Job Duties
Working with commercial teams, business partners, and customers to understand product needs and to define appropriate technology product solutions.
Collaborating with machine product partners, internal partners, and other parties to communicate the technology strategy and gain alignment.
Applying good business acumen to defining product MGPPs that align with customer needs, focus on the appropriate market opportunities, and are within business constraints.
Understanding and responding to mining industry trends, market mega-trends, and important trends in adjacent markets.
Forecasting and aligning with technology innovation; identifying and responding emerging and disruptive technology trends.
Defining product interoperability strategies and product architectures to support interoperability in alignment with market trends and Caterpillar product strategies.
Collaborating with subsystem and component partners (L2-L4) to align strategies and cascade requirements.
Working with NPI teams to define program technology content and supporting the technical execution within NPI programs.
Understanding competitive system capabilities, growth, and positioning.
Supporting the definition and execution of customer based productivity studies.
Working with product regulators to guide regulatory development and plan for regulatory impact on product strategies.
Providing product CPI and maintenance support.
Mentoring and coaching Enterprise team members.
Building a network with the mining industry and impacting the industry through industry groups and organizations.
The Product Architect will rely on a wide network of resources with diverse technical and cultural backgrounds. The incumbent will take responsibility for their development, continuously learning through experience, professional engagements, and career opportunities.
Basic Qualifications
Accredited, 4 year engineering degree or equivalent.
At least 15 years of experience in a relevant technical roles.
Experience with embedded system development and life-cycle management.
Previous large team leadership experience.
Top Candidates will also have
Excellent leadership, organizational, communication, and analytical skills.
Prior experience with mining products, technology based products, autonomous vehicle technology, machine automation, guidance and control products, or similar products.
Advanced degree (Masters, PhD) in an Engineering or Computer Science related fields Autonomous or Semi-Autonomous systems.
Experience must include knowledge across all of the major sub-systems of Autonomy - perception, localization, and planning, and how to manage the interdependencies and integration of the sub-systems into the overall autonomy system.
Experience must also include knowledge across the infrastructure areas supporting development of these sub-systems (simulation, analytics, machine learning development pipelines)
Experience with enabling technologies including radio communications, wireless networks, and IT systems.
Effective communication skills.
Additional Information
The location for this position is Mossville, IL
Domestic Relocation assistance is available for this position
This position may require 10% travel
Sponsorship is available for this position
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
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Relocation is available for this position.
Visa sponsorship available for eligible applicants.
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
