Electronic Systems Verification & Validation Engineer – Mining Products

Electronic Systems Verification & Validation Engineer – Mining Products

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Caterpillar’s Intelligent Machine Systems – CAT Technology Division (Mossville, IL) is currently seeking an Electronic Systems Verification and Validation Engineer to support lab‑based testing for Caterpillar machines. In this role, you will work with an engineering team in the verification and validation of embedded software for Caterpillar machines, while building a detailed knowledge of the electrical and electronic systems on Caterpillar’s products and the technologies that enable them.

You and your team will be performing system integration testing using a combination of SiL (Software‑in‑the‑loop) and HiL (Hardware‑in‑the‑loop) methodologies to ensure high‑quality software for our internal and external customers.

• Work with test lead and subsystem design engineers to define testing priorities, determine test coverage, and troubleshoot issues identified at our proving grounds and/or customer sites.
• Work with subsystem engineers to understand machine feature requirements, develop test plans, implement test plans, perform testing regression, and document test results for embedded software integration testing.
• Develop automated test scripts to improve testing efficiency.

• Ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs to collaborate and work well with different teams.
• Ability to present and review test results with process partners and peers.
• Help others solve technical or procedural problems or issues.
• Listen to feedback without defensiveness and use it for own communication effectiveness.

• Knowledge of product testing approaches, techniques and tools; ability to design, plan and execute testing for L6 machine level software integration.
• Perform software regression, delta content testing, and properly document test results to meet compliance with functional safety requirements and ISO 9001 requirements.
• Document test process and results; prepare and analyze software defect‑tracking reports.
• Develop product‑testing procedures and participate in selecting next‑generation test environment and tools.

• Knowledge of data analysis techniques and tools to review test data, understand and explain the discrepancies and inconsistencies of test results.
• Identify possible causes of bench issues or software defect using sound technical techniques.
• Approach a complex problem by breaking it down into smaller components.
• Develop and use checklists to ensure that test scripts and test results go out error‑free.
• Learn from mistakes and apply lessons learned to future work.

• Experience implementing processes and activities associated with the design and testing of SiL and HiL benches for machine‑level integration testing.
• Good working knowledge of the embedded software development cycle and the SiL methodologies to integrate multiple machine flash files and DLLs for software verification.
• Good working knowledge of Python and C programming to automate test scripts in the SiL and HiL environment.
• Good working knowledge of MATLAB/Simulink for I/O simulation of sensor components and plant modeling.
• Good working knowledge of dSPACE hardware, Control Desk, Automation Desk to operate our dSPACE benches independently.
• Construct wiring harnesses; explain the interconnections between all electrical wiring between the ECMs for an L6 level machine.
• Good working knowledge of electronics engineering to design wiring harnesses, test electronic circuits/components/devices for HiL benches.
• Good working knowledge of CAN, J1939, Ethernet, TCP/IP and other datalink protocols for software integration testing,…