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People in these positions have involvement in identification and understanding of stakeholder requirements and developing specifications, and responsibility for design, implementation, testing and/or release of software that controls the operation of Cummins’ products in a variety of customer applications.Key Responsibilities:\n Investigates product software problems, understands causal mechanisms, recommends appropriate action, owns problem resolution, and documents results. Applies and improves the improvement of product software development processes and tools. Processes include coding, compiling and test. Tools include code editors, integration tools, static analysis tools, compilers and hardware in the loop test tools. Details specific to this role may be found at the end of this document. Obtains input and negotiates with product and software development teams and delivers verified software features, components, builds to product teams. Uses systems knowledge and expertise to make decisions in the areas of software requirements, architecture, design, and test that impact the quality and performance of software builds, product lines (platforms) and management of cross-BU integration and coordination. Responsible for review of less-experienced developers/testers’ work to ensure robust, reusable, and efficient designs. Responsibile for interacting and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Provides independent leadership of smaller business impact projects or ownership of complex components, products, systems or services with greater elements of ambiguity over the senior or lead engineer level and with full accountability to the project team. Delivers independent execution of established and emerging work processes and systems, while still developing technology or product knowledge. Leads the development and improvement of work processes and systems across function(s) within a global business unit or managing improvement across business units. Coordinates and directs work amongst technicians and temporary student employees, assists in the transfer of knowledge to lesser experienced engineers through either indirect (scope of influence) or direct management of a small, local group of engineers. Provides support and guidance to influence technical direction within a project team and continues to develop proficiency in the competency areas critical to success in the role. Operates as a recognized specialist in a discipline or product area within the immediate team.Competencies:\nProduct Failure Mode Avoidance - Mitigates potential product failure modes, by identifying interfaces, functions, functional requirements, interactions, control factors, noise factors, and prioritized potential failure modes and potential failure causes for the system of interest to effectively and efficiently improve the reliability of Cummins’ products.\nProduct Function Modeling, Simulation and Analysis - Impacts product design decisions through the utilization and/or interpretation of computational tools and methods that predict the capability of a product's function relative to its system, sub-system and/or component level requirements.\nProduct Platform Planning and Architecting - Creates and develops a holistic product platform including key architectural feature and function variants needed to align with market level product plans of future target markets; generates alternative architectures traceable to the requirements and performs trade-off analysis in collaboration with life-cycle stakeholders to ensure a balanced and optimum platform; communicates and maintains traceable information and plans executed by product development teams.\nProduct Software Design and Construction - Constructs product software using industry best practices and robust software engineering principles; verifies software updates to ensure quality products.\nProduct Verification and Validation Management - Develops product systems validation plans from a variety of inputs to identify failure modes, while managing product risk and relative priority; negotiates product requirements against capability to guide project scope; evaluates analytical, simulation and physical test results to verify product capability and validate requirements; assesses legacy versus proposed system solution capabilities and produces recommendations with technical documentation to support product decisions.\nSystem Requirements Engineering - Uses appropriate methods and tools to translate stakeholder needs into verifiable requirements to which designs are developed; establishes acceptance criteria for the system of interest through analysis, allocation and negotiation; tracks the status of requirements throughout the system lifecycle; assesses the impact of changes to system requirements on project scope, schedule, and resources; creates and maintains information linkages to related artifacts.\nSystems Thinking - Defines the system of interest by drawing the boundaries, identifying its context within its environment, its interfaces, and that it has a lifecycle to aid in planning the problem statement, scope and deliverables ; analyzes linkages and interactions between elements that comprise the system of interest by using appropriate methods, models and integration of outcomes to understand the system, predict its behavior and devise modifications to it in order to produce the desired effects.\nBuilds networks - Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.\nCommunicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.\nDecision quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.\nDrives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.\nManages complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.\nResourcefulness - Securing and deploying resources effectively and efficiently.\nValues differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.\nEducation, Licenses, Certifications:\nCollege, university, or equivalent Bachelor's degree in Engineering or appropriate STEM field is required.\nPost-graduate (Master's) degree relevant to this discipline area may be required for select roles.\nThis position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.\nExperience:\nPrior Senior or Lead Engineer equivalent work experience in a relevant discipline area is required with a demonstrated track record of technical problem solving and quality decision making. Knowledge of MS Office tools is preferred \nJob Specific Description\nThis role will serve as a technical specialist for cybersecurity, embedded software architecture, and Linux-based control/HMI platforms used in Cummins Power Generation products, including generator set controllers, power system controllers, connected devices, service interfaces, and next-generation embedded platforms.\nThe position is primarily responsible for defining and driving cybersecurity architecture, software architecture, and Embedded Linux system architecture, ensuring that products are secure, maintainable, scalable, and aligned with evolving regulatory, product, and technology requirements.\nThe role will lead architecture and design decisions spanning secure boot, software update, identity and access management, cryptographic services, secure communications, diagnostics, platform hardening, application isolation, logging, provisioning, and lifecycle security, while ensuring that these capabilities are integrated coherently within the overall embedded software platform.\nA major focus of the position will be supporting both control platforms from traditional RTOS-based embedded systems as well Embedded Linux-based architectures, while establishing reusable software and cybersecurity foundations that can be adopted across multiple controller families and product programs.\nThe individual will work closely with PCRA, embedded software, controls, platform, systems engineering, validation, digital, service tools, manufacturing, and application engineering teams. Approximately 10-20% of the role will focus on system-level architecture and system integration, ensuring that cybersecurity and software platform decisions remain aligned with overall product architecture, power system behavior, external interfaces, and validation strategy.\nThe role is expected to provide technical leadership without direct authority, drive structured architecture decisions, establish reusable platform capabilities, identify architectural risks early, and ensure traceability from requirements through architecture, implementation, verification, and product deployment.\nKey Responsibilities (Job-Specific)\nLead definition and evolution of embedded cybersecurity architecture for Power Generation controllers/HMI/ATS/AUX and connected embedded platforms.\nDefine cybersecurity concepts and architecture for capabilities including:Secure boot and chain of trust\n\nFirmware authenticity and integrity verification\n\nSecure software update and rollback protection\n\nDevice identity and certificate management\n\nCryptographic key management and provisioning\n\nHardware-backed security and secure key storage\n\nIdentity, authentication, authorization, and access control\n\nSecure diagnostics and service access\n\nSecure communications and protocol security\n\nSecurity logging, audit, and event management\n\nSecure manufacturing and device provisioning\n\nVulnerability management and product security lifecycle\n\nSecure decommissioning and credential lifecycle management\n\nDevelop and maintain reusable cybersecurity platform services and abstractions that can be leveraged by applications, communication stacks, service interfaces, manufacturing tools, and operating-system components.\nDrive architecture for the use of hardware security capabilities, including secure elements, HSMs, TPMs, TrustZone-class mechanisms, MCU security peripherals, hardware crypto accelerators, protected key storage, lifecycle controls, and debug-access protection where applicable.\nEnsure software and cybersecurity architectures support applicable security standards, regulations, and industry practices, including relevant requirements from IEC 62443, ISO/SAE 21434 where applicable, NIST guidance, EU Cyber Resilience Act, EU Machinery Regulation, UL requirements, IEC standards, and applicable IETF security standards.\nLead cybersecurity architecture reviews, threat modeling activities, trust-boundary definition, attack-surface analysis, and mitigation planning for embedded control platforms and associated communication interfaces.\nDefine and evolve the embedded software architecture for controller platforms, including software layering, platform services, application frameworks, middleware, hardware abstraction, runtime services, communication services, persistence, diagnostics, security services, and system management.\nEstablish clear software architecture principles for modularity, portability, testability, maintainability, scalability, fault 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