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# Embedded Software Senior Engineer

- **Company:** Caterpillar
- **Location:** Mossville, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $112,710 - $169,060
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** AUTomotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR), C++ (Programming Language), Embedded Software, Failure Mode Effects Analysis, Real-Time Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Verification and Validation (Software), Systems Integration, Software in the Loop, Information Technology
- **Published:** November 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3514735057&tx=FR3734FFP&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* Requires a 4-year degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum

What Skills You Will Have:

Analytical Thinking

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

Effective Communications

 * Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.

Teamwork

 * Actively participates in team meetings.
 * Shares information, knowledge, and experiences openly and proactively., * Electrical components / systems experience. Read a schematic and troubleshoot basic machine wiring issues.
 * Experience developing embedded real-time software or systems for mobile, earthmoving, agricultural, industrial, or off-highway applications
 * Experience with FMEA processes and a basic knowledge of electronic system failure modes

## Description

* Work with different machine systems teams to develop a plan to integrate new libraries in a reusable way
 * Software development using primarily C/C++ on a Real-Time OS with AutoSAR framework
 * Integration of software features taken from models and libraries to create software flash files
 * Integration of updated configuration and calibration data
 * Test plan development and software validation using Software in the Loop (SIL) and Hardware in the Loop (HIL) methods, * Conducts walkthroughs and monitors effectiveness and quality of the development activities.