PowerTrain Systems Integration Engineer

Industry

Engineering Equipment Manufacturing

• Bachelor’s (BS) in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• 10+ years of relevant product (machine, system, or component) development experience
• 8+ years' experience with an MS or PhD in Engineering

• Ability to interrogate existing system schematics and develop new electrical system layouts
• Creation of detailed electrical schematics, leveraging industry and client-developed standards
• Ability to apply principles of electrical theory to electric powertrain design
• Experience with design and simulation tools/software

• Experience in performance analysis and simulation at machine or system level
• Electric drive systems design, modeling and/or simulation (using tools such as Matlab, Simulink, etc.)
• Testing of electrical components, systems, machines
• Electric or mechanical drivetrain systems (design or simulation)
• Motor/generator systems (design or simulation)
• Power electronics/power conversion systems and controls (design or simulation)
• Power distribution design, including selection of protective components
• Hydraulic system design or simulation

• Strong collaboration and communication skills to efficiently work with process partners and internal customers

• Experience mentoring less experienced engineers/team members

We have an exciting opportunity for a System Integration Engineer in Caterpillar's Electrification & Advanced Power Solutions Division. This position will work with experienced electric powertrain technical leads to understand customer, business, and regulation requirements and have accountability for developing ePowertrain solutions for construction and mining equipment to meet emissions reduction goals.

• Develop electrified powertrain concepts
• Optimize systems through simulation
• Conduct trade-off analysis using key metrics (performance, TCO, R&D investment)
• Complete detailed system design activities, in concert with component design owners
• Support development builds and validation
• Troubleshoot electric powertrain systems to resolve electrical and mechanical component and system challenges

Daily interaction with project leads, peers, and subject matter experts

Weekly interaction with internal process partners

0-25% (Tucson, other Caterpillar facilities). Primarily office, but will support lab work as dictated by the project.