Trimble
Senior System Engineer
US - OH, Dayton · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- Ready to shape the future of heavy machinery and revolutionize earthmoving and paving technology on a global scale?
Responsibilities
- Familiar with system design - application level problem solving, system architectures, CAN networks, machine integration.
- Electronics experience; capable of understanding and developing system diagrams and schematics.
Requirements
- You will utilize your detailed knowledge of practical applications of electrical, software, and mechanical engineering skills to lay out system architecture and the systems that are dependent on them.
- Minimum 3 years of experience developing functionally safe products.
Skills
- For more information on currently developed products, see http://construction.trimble.com/earthworks.
- Key Exciting
- BS in electrical engineering, mechatronics, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience working in embedded product development.
- Experience designing and interfacing with vehicular communication and control systems.
- Knowledge of electronic hardware and software product development processes and tools.
- Proven record of applying functional safety principles and practices to product development.
- Experience contributing to product risk assessments, FMEAs and FMEDAs.
- Technical leadership - use of influence and experience to achieve goals.
- Solid analytical and problem solving skills.
- Bonus Points For:
- Familiarity with functions and usage of construction or agriculture machinery.
Compensation
- Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position.
- This compensation range is based on a full time schedule.
- Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.
- Hiring Range $115,600.00-$158,900.00 Pay Rate Type Salary Bonus Eligible?
Benefits
- Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans.
- Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.
Company info
- Trimble Field Systems develops hardware, software and services that connect the site to the office for key industries around the world, including civil construction, surveying, mapping, automotive, marine, utilities and more.
- Leveraging decades of expertise and a commitment to driving innovative breakthroughs, we offer solutions that drive digital transformation across your field operations.
- About Caterpillar Trimble Control
- About Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT): The CTCT division (a joint venture between Trimble and Caterpillar) develops positioning, control, and automation products for earthmoving and paving machines in the construction and mining industries, using technologies such as GNSS, optical total stations, lasers, and sonics.
- The products are used in a range of applications where the operator of the machine benefits from having accurate horizontal and vertical guidance.
- What Makes This Role Great: As a System Design Engineer within CTCT, you will play a vital role in the team developing technology that works for our customers.
- In this hands-on role, you will be responsible for the specification, design, and integration of future machine control systems for earthmoving and paving machines (excavators, bulldozers, graders, etc.).
- You'll work with marketing, multi-discipline engineering teams, and machine OEMs, to ensure we develop innovative, high-quality products.
- In addition to your broad-ranging technical skills, you will have excellent interpersonal skills to work within ambiguous situations, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to define and develop products, and help transform requirements into product strategy and technical direction, including sometimes serving as the technical lead in engineering teams (leading through influence).
- Key Exciting Responsibilities: Create earthmoving and paving machine control system designs Collaborate with cross-functional teams in the creation and application of system architectures, product design, and verification Assist in the decomposition of product system and safety requirements into subsystem requirements Support electronics hardware component selection and design ensuring system needs are met Define machine control networks including layout, system usage, security, and messaging Define communication interfaces including electrical implementation, bus loading analyses, and messaging protocols Coordinate with cross-functional engineering teams on product safety lifecycle and V-model execution Contribute to the creation of product safety concepts and architectures Participate in assessments influencing product safety such as hazard & risk analyses, DFMEA, FMEDA, PFMEA, and common cause failure analysis Technical Leadership: Assume a leadership role in resolving complex technical problems.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and technicians.
- Travel (including international) is less than 25% Essential Skills & Experience: BS in electrical engineering, mechatronics, or a related field.
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