L6E Software and Technology Validation Engineer

Career Area: Engineering

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.

If you like being on the forefront of product development and improvement, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join the team as an L6E Sr. Software and Technology Validation Engineer
! Caterpillar enjoys the strongest reputation in the industry, and, in this critical role, you will help to continue this tradition by leveraging your technical understanding of embedded software, machine systems, and integrated technologies to validate the next generation of Earthmoving products. You will provide technical leadership for validation planning and execution, collaborating with product development teams to deliver software and technology solutions that meet requirements for quality, performance, reliability, and customer experience.

• Provide technical leadership for software and technology validation across Earthmoving products, working with software, controls, systems, and product development teams, as well as internal and external suppliers.
• Develop risk-based validation strategies, test plans, and acceptance criteria that translate system and software requirements into measurable test coverage at the component, subsystem, and machine levels.
• Lead validation execution using simulation, software-in-the-loop (SIL), hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), bench, and machine testing, including functional, integration, regression, and performance testing.
• Collaborate in requirements and design reviews, identify validation gaps and technical risks, and maintain traceability between requirements, test cases, defects, and validation results.
• Drive issue investigation and root cause analysis by reproducing failures, analyzing software and machine data, and partnering with development teams to verify corrective actions.
• Improve validation efficiency and repeatability through automated testing, reusable test methods, data analysis, and integration with software build and release workflows.
• Coordinate validation priorities, schedules, and resources; communicate test coverage, results, unresolved risks, and release readiness; and mentor engineers in validation methods and technical problem-solving.
• Collaborate with product group machine L6 validation engineers to leverage validation and early learning across EMD and outside of EMD
• Provide regular leadership updates on validation status and progress

The successful candidate must bring (Basic Qualifications):

• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in an Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum
• Extensive experience, including software, controls, or integrated machine technology development and validation.
• Experience in two or more of the following software and technology validation areas:
  • Embedded software and electronic controls validation
  • SIL, HIL, or simulation-based testing
  • Machine-level technology integration and system validation
  • Test automation, scripting, and regression testing
  • Requirements-based test development and validation traceability
  • Software and system troubleshooting, data analysis, and root cause investigation
• Technical and functional understanding of machine systems, embedded controls, and software interfaces, with the ability to…