Senior Systems Integration Engineer

Caterpillar is building advanced automation and autonomy solutions that help customers improve jobsite safety, productivity, and efficiency. We are seeking a Senior Systems Integration Engineer to work across autonomy, digital platforms, machine engineering, manufacturing, and service organizations to ensure subsystems operate together as one coherent, robust solution that meets Caterpillar standards for quality, reliability, and customer trust.

What you will do:

The role is accountable for end‑to‑end technical ownership of system connectivity, data flows, and validation strategies supporting enterprise machine readiness capabilities This role defines how machine data is generated, connected, validated, and consumed to ensure machines are ready to work (“dirt‑ready”) while also driving architectural and process changes required to enable future autonomy, automation, and digital capabilities The role serves as a technical authority for system health, quality, and integration robustness, with responsibility for identifying risks, driving corrective actions, and influencing enterprise roadmaps to improve scalability and resilience.

Own end‑to‑end system integration for a machine readiness capability across embedded systems, edge environments, and enterprise platforms.

Establish and govern technical expectations for system connectivity, data completeness, and readiness determination.

Ensure alignment of subsystem behaviors to deliver a consistent, predictable system outcome across products and regions.

Ensure machines reliably report the data required to assess readiness, enablement, and configuration correctness.

Lead end‑to‑end system validation from an enterprise perspective, ensuring all subsystems function together as intended.

Serve as a technical sign‑off authority for system readiness and integration quality

Provide senior engineering leadership to determine required changes to onboard architecture and back‑office systems needed to support current and future capabilities.

Lead improvements in underlying systems, interfaces, and data pipelines to increase resilience and capability maturity.

Provide technical expertise in a large, global, matrixed organization.

Communicate complex system behavior clearly to engineering teams, product leaders, and executives.

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Experience with connected machines, autonomy, automation, telematics, or digital platforms.

Deep experience with complex, distributed systems that span embedded machines and enterprise platforms.

Understanding of construction, mining, or industrial equipment environments.

Prior experience influencing platform or system architecture decisions.

Understanding of factory systems and capabilities

Self‑directed leader with strong business and customer awareness.

Experience delivering technologies through multiple NTI / NPI or platform evolution cycles.

Passion for improving customer experience through reliable, well‑validated systems

Ability to adapt quickly as priorities and strategies evolve.

This position requires the candidate to be based in Mossville, IL

Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.

Visa sponsorship is NOT available with this position.

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

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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