Career Area:

Engineering

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

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The P&E Connectivity Team is seeking a System Engineer to drive feature ownership and delivery for connectivity solutions within electrification programs. This role is designed for an engineer with 5+ years of experience, demonstrating strong system-level understanding, stakeholder collaboration capability, and expertise in managing feature lifecycles in complex, cross-functional environments. The engineer is expected to own feature backlogs, influence prioritization decisions, ensure alignment with customer experience goals, and drive end-to-end feature delivery including planning, validation, and release readiness while ensuring compliance with enterprise standards.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage connectivity solution features aligned with electrification initiatives, ensuring clear definition, prioritization, and execution.
• Maintain and prioritize the feature-level backlog based on business value, constraints, and dependencies using structured methods such as WSJF.
• Collaborate with Product Teams, Cat Digital, business stakeholders, and architects to define and enhance customer experience for connectivity features.
• Prepare and maintain feature-level documentation, including SRS and MFRD, ensuring completeness and traceability.
• Create and manage feature requirements for external dependency teams (e.g., Onboard Development, Cat Digital), and track timelines to ensure aligned delivery.
• Review test cases to ensure comprehensive coverage of all feature-level scenarios and acceptance criteria.
• Drive defect triage processes and ensure known constraints and issues are documented within feature artifacts.
• Monitor and improve feature performance, scalability, and maintainability across connectivity solutions.
• Lead backlog grooming and refinement sessions with development teams to ensure readiness and clarity of implementation.
• Track feature completion and update status to “Resolved/Closed” after successful validation in field or production environments.
• Support release readiness, including participation and ownership in Go/No-Go decision-making processes.
• Publish release notes covering delivered features, known limitations, and defect status for stakeholder communication.
• Deliver high-quality, reliable, and customer-centric connectivity features aligned with electrification program objectives.
• Maintain structured technical documentation and ensure compliance with BIQ, ISO, and cybersecurity standards.

Degree Requirement:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

Skill Descriptors

System & Feature Ownership

Level: Solid Experience

• Experience in managing feature lifecycle, including backlog prioritization, planning, execution, and release coordination.
• Strong understanding of connectivity/telematics systems within electrification or similar domains.
• Ability to balance business priorities, technical constraints, and customer experience outcomes.

Product Development & Agile Execution

Level: Solid Experience

• Experience working in Agile environments with strong exposure to backlog management, grooming sessions, and sprint execution.
• Proficiency in prioritization techniques such as feature-based planning.
• Ability to coordinate across cross-functional and external dependency teams effectively.

Quality & Validation

Level: Solid Experience

• Strong understanding of test case reviews, validation strategies, and defect triage processes.
• Ability to ensure completeness of feature validation and documentation of known constraints.

System Thinking & Performance Monitoring

Level: Solid Experience

• Ability to monitor and analyse system performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Strong system-level thinking across connectivity layers and integrations.

Data Interpretation and Effective Analysis

Level: Working Experience

• Making data driven decision to analyze system anomalies
• Identifying tools/scripts using python to effectively analyze data 

Effective Communication & Collaboration

Level: Working Knowledge

• Strong communication skills to engage with stakeholders, architects, and development teams.
• Ability to document requirements, decisions, and release information clearly.
• Experience in cross-functional collaboration across distributed/global teams.

Compliance & Documentation

Level: Working Knowledge

• Familiarity with BIQ, ISO, and cybersecurity compliance requirements.
• Ability to maintain structured and audit-ready technical documentation.

Additional information: This job required 5 working days from office.

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.  It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Relocation is available for this position.

Posting Dates:

May 26, 2026 - June 9, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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