Senior System Engineer

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Transform the Future of Heavy Equipment: Lead Next-Gen System Design as our Senior System Design Engineer!

Ready to shape the future of heavy machinery and revolutionize earthmoving and paving technology on a global scale? Join our CTCT team in Dayton, Ohio, to design and integrate high-impact, innovative machine control systems that keep essential industries moving forward efficiently and safely.

About Us: Trimble Field Systems develops hardware, software and services that connect the site to the office for key industries around the world, including civil construction, surveying, mapping, automotive, marine, utilities and more. Leveraging decades of expertise and a commitment to driving innovative breakthroughs, we offer solutions that drive digital transformation across your field operations.

About Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT):

The CTCT division (a joint venture between Trimble and Caterpillar) develops positioning, control, and automation products for earthmoving and paving machines in the construction and mining industries, using technologies such as GNSS, optical total stations, lasers, and sonics. The products are used in a range of applications where the operator of the machine benefits from having accurate horizontal and vertical guidance. For more information on currently developed products, see htt[local path removed]

What Makes This Role Great:

As a System Design Engineer within CTCT, you will play a vital role in the team developing technology that works for our customers. In this hands-on role, you will be responsible for the specification, design, and integration of future machine control systems for earthmoving and paving machines (excavators, bulldozers, graders, etc.). You’ll work with marketing, multi-discipline engineering teams, and machine OEMs, to ensure we develop innovative, high-quality products.

You will utilize your detailed knowledge of practical applications of electrical, software, and mechanical engineering skills to lay out system architecture and the systems that are dependent on them. In addition to your broad-ranging technical skills, you will have excellent interpersonal skills to work within ambiguous situations, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to define and develop products, and help transform requirements into product strategy and technical direction, including sometimes serving as the technical lead in engineering teams (leading through influence). 

Key Exciting Responsibilities:

Create earthmoving and paving machine control system designs

Collaborate with cross-functional teams in the creation and application of system architectures, product design, and verification

Contribute to the creation of product safety concepts and architectures

Assist in the decomposition of product system and safety requirements into subsystem requirements

Coordinate with cross-functional engineering teams on V-model execution

Support electronics hardware component selection and design ensuring system needs are met

Define machine control networks including layout, system usage, security, and messaging

Define communication interfaces including electrical implementation, bus loading analyses, and messaging protocols

Participate in assessments influencing product safety such as hazard & risk analyses, DFMEA, FMEDA, PFMEA, and common cause failure analysis

Assume a leadership role in resolving complex technical problems. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and technicians.

Travel (including international) is less than 25%

Essential Skills & Experience:

BS in electrical engineering, mechatronics, or a related field

5+ years of experience working in embedded product development

Minimum 3 years of experience developing functionally safe products

Familiar with system design - application level problem solving, system architectures, CAN networks, machine integration

Electronics experience; capable of understanding and developing system diagrams and schematics

Experience designing and interfacing with vehicular communication and control systems

Knowledge of electronic hardware and software product development processes and tools

Proven record of applying functional safety principles and practices to product development

Experience contributing to product risk assessments, FMEAs and FMEDAs

Technical leadership - use of influence and experience to achieve goals

Solid analytical and problem solving skills

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, capable of writing technical specifications and presenting to customers and cross-functional stakeholders

Ability to work independently and as part of a global team

Bonus Points For:

Experience designing Machine Control Systems

Familiarity with functions and usage of construction or agriculture machinery

Deep understanding of industry standards such as ISO 19014, ISO 13849, IEC 61508, and ISO 26262

Ability to reconcile functional and regulatory product requirements, and process them into detailed engineering requirements

You possess expertise in analog and exposure to digital electronic circuit design and risk mitigation strategies

Experience in the development and management of organizational standards and processes

You have a proven track record working with Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), specifically with accelerometers and gyroscopes

Logistics:

Location: Dayton, Ohio

Travel Requirement: Less than 25% (including international)