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.

Your Work Shapes the World

Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.

When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us.

Job Summary:

The Embedded Product Cyber Security Team ensures that Caterpillar Machine & Engine Systems are developed with state-of-the-art protection from cyber threats. Our team is developing on machine cybersecurity solutions & software for Caterpillar Display, Telematics, Machine, Engine, & Autonomy product lines that will be in production for years to come.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about developing cybersecurity solutions for Caterpillar’s embedded product line. They will also be willing to learn new areas of expertise in this fast paced and ever-changing world of cybersecurity while working with multiple systems, software, component, and product teams to produce world class cybersecurity solutions for Caterpillar machines.

The Product Cybersecurity Engineer is a hands-on technical leadership role that will focus primarily on emerging government regulations and helping translate regulatory language into actionable engineering solutions that will meet upcoming regulatory requirements. This includes leading and conducting risk assessments of current product to identify areas of potential risk and working with partner organizations to develop solutions to fill any gaps identified. The job also includes attending training and conferences in order to stay abreast of emerging technologies and developing a road map for introducing those technologies onto Caterpillar Product.

What You Will Do:

• Provide leadership on Cybersecurity objectives, compliance, and implementation during the New Product Introduction process

• Develop Embedded Cybersecurity strategies & solutions that will be implemented into production software

• Serve as a trusted advisor to effectively communicate product cybersecurity issues in a manner that is easily understood and actionable

• Advise on processes and methodologies required when evaluating purchased product solutions and developing new internal solutions

• Support both internal and 3rd party risk assessments working with systems teams and Caterpillar IT

• Identify the business risk and assist in developing remediation strategies as necessary

• Assist risk owners with completing risk treatment plans

Education Requirement:

• Requires a Bachelor’s (4-year) degree in an accredited Engineering or Computer Science curriculum.

What Skills You Will Have:

Analytical Thinking:

• Ability to apply industry best practices to Caterpillar Engines, Machine, and Information Products.

• Demonstrates experience with machine or automotive embedded architecture and networking.

• Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.

• Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.

• Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.

Effective Communications:

• Presents appropriately in projects stakeholder and gateway reviews.

• Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.

• Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.

• Maintains focus on the topic at hand.

Teamwork:

• Develops and maintains close collaboration with cross functional engine and machine system embedded product and software engineers.

• Works closely with IT professionals within the Cybersecurity organization.

• Demonstrates experience communicating with 3rd party security partners and consultants

• Shows and promotes respect for differences and diversity.

Technical Excellence:

• Develops a deep working knowledge of cybersecurity principals and application to embedded control systems.

• Engaged with full product line of Caterpillar ECU’s for boot level and middleware software to implement cybersecurity features.

• Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.

• Attends Industry trade shows and consortiums to stay abreast of Cybersecurity technology and solutions.

Software Product Design/Architecture:

• Demonstrates experience with C++ and Python utilizing Linux development environment.

• Ability to analyze software architecture and network diagram for Security Threat architecture Review (STAR) process

• Describes major software architecture alternatives and considerations.

• Analyzes benefits and drawbacks of specific software designs and architecture.

Analytical Thinking:

• Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.

• Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.

• Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.

• Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.

• Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.

• Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.

Effective Communications:

• Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.

• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.

• Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.

• Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.

• Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.

• Maintains focus on the topic at hand.

Teamwork:

• Establishes and maintains effective working relationship with each team member.

• Coordinates roles, responsibilities and interdependencies of all team members.

• Identifies and addresses potential problems or issues within the team.

• Works with large or multiple teams that span functions, issues, locations, and time zones.

• Shows and promotes respect for differences and diversity.

• Learns and utilizes special talents and work styles of team members.

Technical Excellence:

• Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.

• Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.

• Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.

• Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.

• Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.

• Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.

Producing Results:

• Ensures time, resources, energy, and actions are focused on priorities that matter to the business.

• Reliably meets all team commitments, quotas, and goals.

• Communicates a strong sense of urgency about solving problems and getting work done.

• Makes effective use of resources not under own direct control.

• Rarely repeats mistakes; learns and adapts from prior errors.

• Takes risks in improving products and services while holding self and others accountable.

Software Product Design/Architecture:

• Demonstrates experience with the architecture and design of major or multiple products.

• Describes major software architecture alternatives and considerations.

• Explains design considerations for commercial database systems, operating systems and web.

• Displays experience in estimating the cost of a specific design of a proposed product.

• Facilitates design reviews and walkthroughs.

• Analyzes benefits and drawbacks of specific software designs and architecture.

Requirements Analysis:

• Plays an active or leading role in recording and storing requirement documents in various forms.

• Ensures the successful completion of all major activities, tasks and deliverables pertaining to the requirement analysis stage.

• Supervises the advanced use of requirements analysis tools and services, including prototyping and use cases.

• Produces detailed functional and information requirements models and documentation.

• Trains others on requirements walkthroughs and quality reviews.

• Utilizes automated diagramming tools to ensure traceability of requirements.

Technical Troubleshooting:

• Provides insight into alternative troubleshooting approaches and their applicability to solve problems.

• Elaborates on ways of distinguishing between hardware, software and communications problems.

• Plays a leadership role in resolving complex, multi-component failures.

• Creates and oversees policies and procedures to ensure alignment with product and service requirements.

• Builds standards to design and support troubleshooting situations and maintain cost effectiveness.

• Develops and demonstrates an extensive knowledge base and best practice on how to troubleshoot non-recurring and performance-related problems.

Additional Information

The location for this position is Mossville, IL

Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.

This position will require less than 10% travel.

What You Will Get:

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world. Here you earn more than just wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides:

• Competitive Base Salary

• Annual incentive bonus plan*

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)

• 401k savings plan

• Health savings account (HSA)

• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

• Short and long-term disability coverage

• Life Insurance

• Paid parental leave

• Healthy Lifestyle Programs

• Employee Assistance Programs

• Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection)

*Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines.

Final details

Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status.

This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.Caterpillar.com/Careers .

For more information, visit caterpillar.com. To connect with us on social media, visit caterpillar.com/social-media

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Summary Pay Range:

$144,960.00 - $217,320.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*

• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*

• 401(k) savings plans*

• Health Savings Account (HSA)*

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*

• Health Lifestyle Programs*

• Employee Assistance Program*

• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*

• Career Development*

• Incentive bonus*

• Disability benefits

• Life Insurance

• Parental leave

• Adoption benefits

• Tuition Reimbursement

• These benefits also apply to part-time employees

Posting Dates:

February 26, 2025 - March 12, 2025

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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