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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.\nRole Definition\n This role leads the end-to-end design, integration, validation, and deployment of Edge AI solutions across Caterpillar's machine portfolio, ensuring they integrate seamlessly with each machine platform.\nThe engineer collaborates across L6 Machine and Autonomy Systems, electrical, hardware, software, and cybersecurity teams to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable solutions throughout the product lifecycle.\nWhat You Will Do:\nLead product group adoption of these solutions, ensuring standardized physical and software interfaces align with product group software releases.\nDevelop system requirements, interface definitions, and functional specifications for integration between edge systems and Machine Software.\nTranslate customer, regulatory, and business requirements into technical system solutions.\nDefine clear integration strategies and support product group alignment and adoption.\nDrive improvements that enable system teams to effectively deploy and manage edge AI-based features.\nPlan and track system-level testing, validation, and verification of integrated Machine and edge AI features.\nSupport vehicle- and machine-level integration testing across lab, bench, and field environments.\nContinuously improve machine and edge AI feature integration using field data and customer feedback.\nProvide people and technical leadership in system integration and software development to advance the enterprise machine and edge AI compute feature strategy.\nCommunicate program status and development timing to stakeholders and product teams.\nWhat You Will Have:\nCommunicating 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.\nProblem 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.\nEmbedded 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.\nRequirements 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.\nTop Candidates Will Have:\nAbility to approach communication challenges from various angles based upon audience.\nExperience and knowledge of embedded systems and multi-system integration.\nInvolvement with NPI deployment in machine programs\nCapable of successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems using standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.\nStrong communication skills \nAdditional Information:\nPosition is on-site, 5 days per week in Irving, TX\nRelocation assistance may be available in accordance with Caterpillar policies.\nSponsorship is not available for this position.\nTravel is 10%\nSummary Pay Range:\n$128,470.00 - $208,770.00Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-relatedknowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. 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