Principal Software Engineer Digital Platform Manufacturing and Supply

Build the Digital Backbone of Modern Manufacturing

Were assembling a dynamic team to develop and scale ourManufacturing & Supply Digital Platforma next-generation software framework that transforms how manufacturing and supply operations connect collaborate and optimize.

This platform isnot an ERP system. Its a purpose-built digital layer that integrates data processes and resources across the entire manufacturing lifecyclefrom design and engineering to production and distribution.

This initiative ispowered by NVIDIA technologies including theOmniverse platformandAI computing capabilities enabling immersive digital twins accelerated simulation and intelligent automation. Youll be part of a team thats not just building softwarebut shaping the future of how manufacturing works throughAI-driven collaborative and scalable digital solutions.

As part of this initiative youll contribute to:

• System Integration: Seamlessly connecting diverse manufacturing and supply systems data sources and workflows into a unified digital ecosystem.

• Data-Driven Decision Making: Harnessing real-time data collection analysis and visualization to deliver actionable insights and operational intelligence.

• Automation & Optimization: Driving efficiency through intelligent scheduling predictive maintenance and quality controlwithout replacing core transactional systems.

• Enhanced Collaboration: Enabling transparent communication and coordination across teams functions and geographies.

If youre passionate about digital platforms industrial innovation and working with cutting-edge technologiesthis is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

Job Summary:

Principal Software Engineer will provide strategic leadership in all stages of Caterpillars state-of-the-art digital platform software development including refining product vision gathering requirements project planning software system design coding testing release deployment and support. This individual will work collaboratively with other engineering teams to ensure cross-functional goals are met.

Principal Software Engineer will provide strategic leadership for the overall architecture of the Manufacturing and Supply Digital Platform by designing platform capabilities that anticipate evolving business requirements and use cases.

The role will collaborate with peers and Enterprise Capability Owners to deliver diverse use cases thru applications analytics agents and business intelligence.

Additionally the role will leverage innovative NVIDIA technologies to advance digital twin capabilities simulation and optimization.

What You Will Do:

• Leading complex projects spanning across multiple system components

• Designing modifying developing writing and implementing software programming applications for target system using agile methods.

• Acquiring client requirements; resolving workflow problems through automation optimization.

• Writing source codes for new applications and/or generating and enhancing code samples for existing applications.

• Mentoring and assisting software engineers providing technical assistance and direction

• Utilizing automated testing tools to perform the testing and maintenance.

What You Will Have:

• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Expert knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

• Effective Communications: Extensive understanding of effective communication concepts tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit receive and accurately interpret ideas information and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

• Software Development: Expert knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products written in Java or systems in line with product requirements.

• Software Development Life Cycle: Expert knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.

• Software Integration Engineering: Expert knowledge of software integration processes and functions; ability to design develop and maintain interfaces and linkage to alternative platforms and software packages.

• Software Product Design/Architecture: Extensive knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.

• Software Product Technical Knowledge: Extensive knowledge of technical aspects of a software products; ability to design configure and integrate technical aspects of software products.

• Software Product Testing: Extensive knowledge of software product testing; ability to design plan and execute testing strategies and tactics to ensure software product quality and adherence to stated requirements.
  

Considerations for Top Candidates:

• Demonstrated experience leading software engineering projects.

• Expert experience in overall backend or full-stack software development (typically 12 years or at least 10 years with masters degree).

• ExpertJava (preferred) Scala or Python Spring Boot and RESTful API development (preferably Microservices) (typically 8 years)

• Expert experience developing customer facing applications using front-end frameworks libraries (Angular - preferred / React) and design patterns.

• Extensive experience coding HTML 5 CSS3 JavaScript and Web components

• Solid Cloud production experience (preferably AWS) OR a higher-level Cloud training certification ( Architect Associate)

• Proven experience in many of the following

  • Designing developing deploying and maintaining software at scale.

  • Developing software applications using relational and NoSQL databases.

  • Application architectural patterns such as MVC Microservices Event-driven etc.

  • Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.

  • Deploying software using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins GoCD Azure DevOps etc.

  • Deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure.

  • Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum)

  • Experience in leading DevOps practices for a large program.

  • Hands-on experience with Application (web and mobile) Security implementation along with adoption of industry best practices.

  • Good understanding and implementation experience of OAuth 2.0 and integration experience with federated Identity

  • Deploying Security implementation experience as part of DevOps process.

• Strong understanding and/or experience in many of the following

  • Batch or stream processing systems such as Apache Spark Flink Akka Storm

  • Message brokers such as Kafka Rabbitmq AWS SQS AWS SNS Apache ActiveMQ Kinesis.

  • Experience designing well-defined Restful APIs

  • Experience writing API proxies on platforms such as Apigee Edge AWS API Gateway or Azure API Gateway

  • Hands one experience with API tools such as Swagger Postman and Assertible

  • Test driven development and behavior driven development.

  • Hands on experience with testing tools such as Selenium and Cucumber and their integration into CI/CD pipelines.

  • Datastores such as MongoDB Cassandra Redis Elasticsearch MySQL Oracle.

  • Debugging and maintaining software in Linux or Unix platforms.

• Must demonstrate solid knowledge of computer science fundamentals like data structures and algorithms.

• Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment

• Demonstrated leadership on small to medium-scale projects impacting strategic priorities

• Excellent communication and presentational skills

• Bachelors degree in Computer science or Electrical engineering or related field

• Familiarity with NVIDIAs AI stack RAPIDS Triton Inference Server TensorRT cuOpt (or similar); sets benchmarking cost/performance tradeoffs and capacity plans (familiarity with CUDA fundamentals and profiling tools is a plus).

• Cloud/edge familiaritydesigns/operates production workloads on AWS or Azure

Additional Information:

This position will have the option to be based out of our Chicago IL; Peoria IL or Irving TX offices.

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What You Will Get:

Working with a Fortune 100 leader you can build your career on a global scale and take advantage of development opportunities with emerging technologies. Weve created an inclusive environment for you to explore your passions make an impact and do the work that really matters. Join Us.

About Caterpillar

Caterpillar Inc. is the worlds leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment off-highway diesel and natural gas engines industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years weve been helping customers build a better more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services backed by our global dealer network provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc. leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers. With over 1.5 million connected assets worldwide our teams use data technology advanced analytics telematics and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better more sustainable world.