Autonomy Engineering Specialist - MineStar Onboard

Technology, Digital and Data

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This role serves as the technical authority for Mine Star Onboard, the software that runs on Caterpillar mining machines to deliver autonomy, productivity and safety capabilities at customer sites.

The Autonomy Engineering Specialist sits between Site Solutions, Site Systems and L6 Solutions, breaking site-level system designs down into the architectures and requirements that product teams deliver. Working in a highly collaborative SAFe environment, this role applies systems engineering, design and validation expertise to keep requirements, interfaces, geospatial data and secure communications aligned from site design through release.

• Serve as the technical authority for Mine Star Onboard, including its architecture, functionality, interfaces, performance, limitations and technical roadmap, and act as the go-to technical contact for Site Solutions, Site Systems, L6 Solutions and product teams.

• Analyze L8 site systems designs and decompose them into Onboard system and subsystem architectures and requirements allocated to L6 solutions, so that L6 TPMs and their product teams can pick them up and deliver.

• Define needs, write clear, testable requirements, and maintain traceability from site-level needs through L6 requirements to verification.

• Lead design reviews and walkthroughs, evaluate architecture alternatives and trade-offs, and estimate the cost and effort of proposed designs.

• Consult on the integration of Mine Star Onboard with machine platforms, site infrastructure and other Mine Star and third-party products, and define and manage the associated interfaces.

• Define architectures and requirements for geospatial data and secure communications (e.g., VPN, MQTT) between machines, site infrastructure and cloud services.

• Participate in test review and analysis, test witnessing, certification and release readiness for Onboard software, and support verification and validation planning against the intent of the L8 site systems design.

• Evaluate and apply new technologies, including artificial intelligence, to improve the capability of the Onboard portfolio.

• Provide technical guidance to Site Solutions and Site Systems on feasibility, configuration and deployment, and support analysis of escalated issues from customer sites.

• Perform trade studies and change-impact analysis as site designs, requirements or product plans evolve, and identify and drive mitigation of system-level risks.

• Work with L6 TPMs and Product Owners in a SAFe agile environment to review, refine and prioritize allocated requirements.

• Communicate requirements, technical risk, readiness and trade-offs to stakeholders, and document system architecture, design decisions, interface expectations and validation strategy.

• Systems Engineering
  
  Experience:
  
  Minimum of 5 years of experience in systems engineering, or systems and software development, for complex, software-intensive systems, including developing, decomposing and managing requirements, interfaces and validation plans across multi-team or multi-product environments.

• Software Product Design/Architecture: Experience with the architecture and design of major or multiple products; ability to convert customer and system…