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Caterpillar

Makes heavy machinery, engines and gas turbines

Principal Vehicle Deployment Engineer

Equipment Field ServicePosted on Nov 4
Full-timeWuxi, Jiangsu, ChinaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree or higher in vehicle engineering, mechatronics, automation, control engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field; a master's degree is preferred.
  • Substantial experience in vehicle systems, construction machinery, drive-by-wire chassis, autonomous-driving integration, or commissioning of complex electromechanical systems, including platform-level technical ownership.
  • Deep knowledge across multiple areas including engines, powertrains, braking, steering, hydraulics, electrical/electronic architecture, CAN/J1939, ECMs, and vehicle diagnostics.
  • Familiarity with installation, calibration, functional verification, and troubleshooting of sensors, computing platforms, communications, GNSS, wiring harnesses, and Autonomy Kits.
  • Ability to define machine configuration baselines, compatibility matrices, commissioning tests, and acceptance criteria, and make technical decisions on high-risk vehicle issues.
  • Ability to collaborate across product groups, communicate with suppliers, produce technical documentation, communicate in English, and support necessary field travel.

Responsibilities

  • Define installation, inspection, and integration standards across machine platforms for Autonomy Kits, sensors, computing platforms, wiring harnesses, communications equipment, positioning equipment, and Drive-by-Wire interfaces.
  • Establish procedures for vehicle power-on checks, software loading, parameter configuration, sensor calibration, actuator verification, functional testing, and safety checks so commissioning results are traceable and repeatable.
  • Maintain compatibility baselines for machine hardware, ECMs, engines, braking, steering, retarders, transmissions, Autonomy Software, and calibration; review the effects of field changes on autonomous operation.
  • Define Machine Readiness Reviews, commissioning gates, and vehicle acceptance criteria, and provide technical sign-off for high-risk or first-of-kind projects.
  • Identify platform-specific failure modes and deployment requirements for Caterpillar wide-body trucks, mining trucks, and other machine platforms; promote common capabilities into ACP and establish platform-specific configurations and validation strategies when needed.
  • Technically review new vehicle additions, model upgrades, batch retrofits, and cross-platform fleet expansions, defining validation scope, resources, risks, and launch conditions.
  • Lead field diagnosis and root-cause analysis of complex vehicle issues, and work with Product Support, Controls, Functional Safety, Machine Product Groups, and suppliers on corrective actions and design improvements.
  • Develop installation manuals, configuration tools, training, and certification requirements; guide dealers and regional engineers through field installation and first-line commissioning to reduce repeated execution by the core team.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience deploying large mining trucks, wide-body trucks, mining loaders or auxiliary equipment, or autonomous haulage systems.
  • Experience with Drive-by-Wire, functional safety, hazard analysis, FMEA, fault injection, or vehicle safety validation.
  • Experience converting manual transmissions to automatic, integrating AMT or automatic transmissions, shift control, or vehicle-dynamics commissioning.
  • Experience with dealer installation certification, retrofits, NPI/CPI, or multi-model platformization.

About the Company

Caterpillar

Makes heavy machinery, engines and gas turbines

Caterpillar makes construction and mining machines, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and locomotives for contractors, mines, energy companies and data center builders. It is the world's largest maker of construction and mining equipment, and its yellow Cat bulldozers and excavators work in nearly every country. Customers buy or rent machines through independent Cat dealers, while its engines and turbines generate electricity and push natural gas through pipelines. Caterpillar earns money from equipment sales and from the parts and repairs that dealers supply over a machine's working life. It was formed in 1925 when California's Holt and Best tractor companies merged, and it is based in Irving, Texas.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Irving, TX
Founded
1925

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