Senior Design Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 24, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 22, 2026. Caterpillar scores A on the Alion truth index.
Career Area:
EngineeringJob 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
Designs, develops, builds, and implements new products, components, or technologies.
Responsibilities
- Researching new materials and competitive products. Organizing, coordinating, and executing the building, testing, and analysis of prototypes.
- Assisting supply specialists and buyers with supplier development and supplier performance. Overseeing the efforts of drafting and testing specialists.
- Developing and documenting functional requirements and translating into detail design documents. Participating in buy-build analysis for product components.
- Participating in and supporting proposal preparation, cost estimates, and technical reports.
- Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.
Degree Requirement
Degree required
Skill Descriptors
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.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
- Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
- Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
- Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
- Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
- Maintains focus on the topic at hand.
Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Clarifies and handles multiple concurrent and diverse activities.
- Shifts focus among several efforts as required by changing priorities.
- Addresses potential conflicts that impact current delivery commitments.
- Works with or leads others to re-prioritize work and reschedule commitments as necessary.
- Responds to shifting priorities while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work.
- Demonstrates an expectation that there will be ongoing shifts in demands and priorities.
Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.
- Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.
- Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.
- Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
- Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
- Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.
Computer-Aided Design & Engineering: Knowledge of tools and techniques of specialized graphics programs; ability to produce, analyze, simulate and test product design drafts.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Coaches others on orthographic, isometric and axonometric projections.
- Presents complex products and systems graphically.
- Performs manipulations on design objects, such as changing projections and managing drawing layers.
- Directs the matrix computations performed to transform objects in coordinate space.
- Consults on benefits and drawbacks of top-down design vs. bottom-up design.
- Compares and contrasts uses of bird's-eye views and worm's-eye views.
Product Design - MFG: Knowledge of processes, approaches, tools and techniques of product design; ability to convert customer and market requirements into product design.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Develops improvement plans for senior management and evaluates the outcome of the design against the functionality.
- Advises others on the development of multiple products and their functionality.
- Trains others on advanced tools and approaches of product design.
- Monitors the processes and procedures of a complex product design to ensure functional requirements are met.
- Evaluates feedback from customers and consults on functional weaknesses.
- Controls design and development costs of a proposed product through effective resource coordination.
Product Design and Development: Knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Develops organizational standards and processes in order to maximize complex product services' efficiency and effectiveness.
- Creates and introduces new techniques that expedite or simplify the development process.
- Supervises the management of multiple and diverse types of products or services.
- Develops proof-of-concept exercises to prove or disprove validity of proposed products.
- Advises on the appropriate solutions to complex product design and development problems.
- Designs working prototypes of a variety of proposed products or services.
This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization.
Additional Information: This job requires 5days in a week working from office.
Posting Dates:
October 22, 2026 - October 25, 2026Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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