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# Performance and Integration Engineer

- **Company:** Caterpillar
- **Location:** Sanford, NC, United States
- **Salary:** $128,470.0 - $192,710.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Systems Integration, Transport Layer Security, Information Technology
- **Published:** July 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/0555F60CFF3D419BA24BE7D786DE94BD/job/

## About the Role

* Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
 * Influencing Through Expertise: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to use these to deepen own expertise and impact or challenge decisions within and outside own organization.
 * Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
 * Troubleshooting Technical Problems: Knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing or product management environment.
 * Product Design and Development: Knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production.

Top Candidates Will Also Have

 * Demonstrated ability to lead technology and integration projects by coordinating work
 * across cross functional teams.
 * Proven experience developing, integrating, and supporting complex machine or vehicle systems, with system level ownership of requirements, performance, and functional interactions.
 * Hands-on experience tuning machine or vehicle systems in real-world applications and validating overall system functionality and performance to meet customer and product requirements.
 * Requires a degree in accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum or equivalent industry experience.

## Description

Collaborate with customers and Product Teams to define and execute a multi-generational product plan for CTL, SSL, and CUL machine and Work Tool systems.

 * Develop, productionize, and support best-in-class machine performance and system integration through close collaboration with Product Engineering, Commercial, Engineering Systems, and Software teams.
 * Partner with manufacturing locations to ensure in-process validation meets defined customer and product requirements.
 * Perform in-application tuning of machine and tool systems and validate overall system functionality and performance.
 * Lead the delivery of technology and integration projects by coordinating activities across cross-functional teams.
 * Deliver timely, high-quality requirements, analysis, and tuning that impact products and processes, providing clear data-driven recommendations to stakeholders.
 * Stay current on emerging technologies and drive continuous improvement of tools, methods, and engineering practices.


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