Job Description

Career Area:

Engineering

Job Description:

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 dont 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 customers needs. Join us.

Description

Integrated Drivetrain (IDT) is looking for an Electric Drivetrain Support Engineer that will be part of the IDT Electrification Strategy Team that is accountable for developing modular, scalable electric drivetrain system platforms for xEV (diesel-electric, hybrid, battery, fuel cell) applications as we work with our Machine Business Division partners across the CI and RI product lines to define the enterprise strategy for electrification. This will include developing and evaluating drivetrain architecture concepts, executing system evaluations and optimizations through simulation, and completing trade-off assessments on attributes such as performance, energy efficiency, customer Total Cost of Ownership, and R&D timeline / investment. The candidate will work with and across Machine Business Divisions to define system requirements based on Voice of Customer, Voice of Business, and Voice of Regulation and identify nodes of opportunity for leveraged system and component development.

This position is part of an Electrification Upskilling initiative, and candidates with the following experience will be considered:

Electric or mechanical drivetrain systems (design or simulation)

Motor / generator systems (design or simulation)

Power electronics / power conversion systems and controls (design or simulation)

Hydraulic system (design or simulation)

Machine or systems controls

Machine integration, performance or simulation

Basic Qualifications

BS in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering (or related field)

5+ years of product development experience (NPI, NTI, CPI) in machine or system area

Experience in performance and simulation

Ability to think beyond incremental design

Top Candidates will also have

Ability to engage with technical experts on challenging projects in a dynamic environment

5+ years of experience in machine performance / simulation, power electronics, electric machine design; or electric drive systems design, modeling and/or simulation

Machine systems and application experience

Additional Information

The location for this position is East Peoria, IL

Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

This position may require up to 10% travel

Employee benefit details

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 a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.

Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).

Final details

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