Engineering Specialist – Design

## Engineering Specialist – Design Apply locations:
Mossville, Illinois posted on:
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** Career Area:
** Engineering
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* Job Description:

**** Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
** When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other.  We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live.

Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

The
** Engineering Specialist – Design
** provides deep technical leadership in performance, simulation, and advanced controls development for
** Load & Haul products**, including
** Large Wheel Loaders, Articulated Trucks, Hard Rock Vehicles, and Wheel Tractor Scrappers**. In this role, you define performance requirements, lead simulation‐driven product development, and deliver advanced controls solutions that strengthen Caterpillar’s competitive advantage. Your work directly influences machine productivity, fuel efficiency, operator experience, safety, and long‐term product durability across Resource Industries customers.
** Why This Role Is Impactful:
**** Performance Leadership Across Load & Haul Machines
** You set and validate performance targets that ensure Caterpillar machines deliver industry‐leading productivity, cont rollability, and efficiency.
** Simulation‐Driven Product Development
** You accelerate development cycles through high‐fidelity VPD **(Virtual Product Development)
** modeling, simulations, and Simulink co‐simulation, enabling high‐quality virtual validation.
** Advanced Controls Innovation
** You design and tune controls features that improve operator ease of use, reduce owning & operating costs, and maximize uptime.
** Cross‐Functional Technical Influence
** You collaborate with NPI, Machine Integration, Powertrain, Hydraulics, Electronics, and Commercial teams to align system requirements and deliver integrated performance solutions.
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* What You Will Do:

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* ** Lead VPD (Virtual Product Development) and simulation analysis
** using Caterpillar proprietary models, simulations, and Simulink co‐simulation to optimize machine performance and develop new controls features.
* ** Analyze integrated machine models
** including earth‐tool interaction, hydraulics, cooling, powertrain, engine systems, productivity, and fuel efficiency.
* ** Develop and tune advanced controls features
** that deliver lowest owning & operating costs, maximum uptime, operator ease of operation, and best‐in‐class safety.
* ** Perform machine controls tuning and validation
** at proving grounds and customer sites to ensure performance targets are achieved.
* ** Define and maintain system requirements
** across engine, electronics, hydraulics, software, and powertrain subsystems.
* ** Resolve factory software calibration issues
** to ensure product quality and build readiness.
* ** Investigate and resolve customer performance issues
** using Caterpillar diagnostic tools, structured problem solving, and simulation‐based root cause analysis.
* ** Capture and document best practices
** for Load & Haul performance and controls, contributing to design guides and knowledge systems.
* ** Partner with NPI** **(New Product Introduction)*
* ** and Machine Integration teams
** to ensure performance and controls solutions align with program deliverables and customer expectations.
** What Skills

You Will Have:

**** Analytical Thinking
** Demonstrate ability to break down complex Load & Haul performance and controls issues into system‐level components, using simulation, modeling, and diagnostic tools to identify root causes and explain variances between predicted and measured machine behavior.
** Decision Making and Critical Thinking
** Ability to apply informed judgment by validating assumptions with simulation and field data, assessing multiple performance or controls options, and selecting solutions that balance customer value, system constraints, and NPI (New Product Introduction) requirements.
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