Autonomy Systems Engineering Specialist / Spécialiste en ingénierie des systèmes d’autonomie
Caterpillar1 day ago
Laval, CanadaSenior
Base Salary
$122k - $153k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with business and product teams to understand customer challenges, objectives, and value propositions.
- Translate customer and product requirements into product features, epics, and user stories for software delivery teams.
- Define user personas and collaborate with UX/UI designers on user-centered feature designs and mockups.
- Define and maintain system architecture, subsystem interfaces, and high-level software designs.
- Ensure functional and non-functional requirements for safety, compliance, reliability, and performance are addressed.
- Coordinate defect triage and resolution planning with product, business, and engineering stakeholders.
- Facilitate planning with software architects and technical leads for end-to-end solution development.
- Apply incremental delivery, MVP, and INVEST practices in Agile software development.
- Participate in technical reviews, architecture assessments, and DFMEA activities to identify and mitigate risks.
- Support multidisciplinary engineering teams in resolving complex technical challenges.
- Coordinate product development and customer experience efforts with global teams across North America, India, and other regions.
- Provide technical leadership under the direction of the Project Solution Owner and Engineering Manager.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Knowledge of software product design and the ability to convert market requirements into software product designs.
- Knowledge of artificial intelligence concepts, technologies, and methodologies and the ability to develop, implement, or apply AI products and services in an industrial domain.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly, manage multiple priorities, provide technically excellent solutions, think strategically, and influence through expertise.
- Preferred experience with autonomous systems, mining technologies, or industrial automation platforms.
- Preferred experience with GPS positioning, IP networking, Wi-Fi, LTE, and wireless communications.
- Preferred experience with embedded software development and software-intensive systems.
- Preferred knowledge of systems architecture, software design, and end-to-end solution development.
- Preferred experience with DFMEA, system-level risk assessments, and architecture reviews.
- Preferred familiarity with UX design processes, user-centered product development, and global matrixed engineering organizations.
- Fluency in English and French is preferred.
Benefits
- Onsite work at the Laval, Quebec office five days per week.
- Up to 10% domestic and international travel may be required.
- Relocation assistance is not offered.
- The position is posted for October 9, 2026 through October 22, 2026.
Categories
Robotics
About Caterpillar
Caterpillar Inc. designs, manufactures, and services construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives for infrastructure, resource, and energy customers. The public company, founded in 1925 and headquartered in Irving, Texas, sells primarily through an independent worldwide dealer network and provides equipment financing. It operates through Construction Industries, Resource Industries, and Energy & Transportation segments, with shares traded on the NYSE and Euronext Paris.