Senior Electronic Component Engineer

Caterpillar Inc.; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Chennai, India seeks an experienced Electronics/Electrical Engineer to design, develop, and test ECMs/ECUs for machines and engine systems.

You will ensure compliance with requirements, perform analyses, and collaborate across software, hardware, and engine teams to integrate platforms. Roles involve vendor management, troubleshooting during development and production, and mentoring junior engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering; Master’s degree preferred.
• Experience with ECM/ECU development and testing.
• Strong communication and collaboration across teams.
• Ability to mentor junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing compliance with functional & environmental requirements, development processes, and regulations for ECM/ECUs.
• Development of product requirements, analysis and simulation, electronic component selection, schematic/layout review, and platform verification and validation.
• Collaboration with software, machine and engine teams to ensure platform integration.
• Managing and negotiating with ECM/ECU vendors for the development of systems and components.
• Investigating and troubleshooting all technical issues related to ECM/ECUs during development and through the production lifecycle.
• Mentoring technicians and engineers in the development of electrical and electronic systems and components.
• This position requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Electrical, Electronics curriculum.

Skills

Effective communications

Technical excellence

Project management

Electronics engineering

Product design

Reliability management

Mechanical engineering

Supplier management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Master’s degree in Engineering

Job description

Job Description

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Career Area

Engineering

Role Definition

Design, development and testing of electronic control modules (ECM/ECU) for use within machines and engine systems.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing compliance with functional & environmental requirements, development processes, and regulations for ECM/ECUs.
• Development of product requirements, analysis and simulation, electronic component selection, schematic/layout review, and platform verification and validation.
• Collaboration with various levels of software as well as machine and engine systems teams to ensure the platform integrates into multiple applications.
• Managing and negotiating with ECM/ECU vendors for the development of systems and components.
• Investigating and troubleshooting all technical issues related to ECM/ECUs during development and through the production lifecycle.
• Mentoring technicians and engineers in the development of electrical and electronic systems and components
• Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Electrical, Electronics curriculum.

Degree Requirement

Bachelor’s degree in engineering from Tier 1 College and University. Master’s degree in Engineering will be a plus.

Skill Descriptors

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Effective Communications

Level Extensive Experience

• Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
• Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
• Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
• Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
• Maintains focus on the topic at hand.

Technical Excellence

Level Extensive Experience

• Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.
• Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.
• Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.
• Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
• Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
• Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.

Project Management

Level Working Knowledge

• Provides input for Gantt or PERT charts or their equivalent to track project progress and status.
• Under guidance, plans and estimates simple projects.
• Assists in detailed project plans including cost, schedule, and resource requirements.
• Obtains information from stakeholders during the planning stage of a project.
• Produces standard project status reports.

Electronics Engineering - HTH

Level Extensive Experience

• Trains others on designing complex integrated circuits.
• Anticipates the challenges and opportunities associated with creating printed circuit boards.
• Interprets alternative interfaces between hardware and software and associated requirements and considerations.
• Advises on matching methodology, materials and tools to the electronic product that is being built.
• Consults on engineering multiple electronic circuits, components or devices.
• Evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of analog and digital circuits.

Product Design - HTH

Level Extensive Experience

• Monitors each phase of the design procedure to ensure overall operation meets standards.
• Trains others on major processes of product design; directs the conception of each component.
• Advises others on the development of multiple products and their architectures.
• Delivers improvement plans to senior management and compares the outcome of the design against the architecture.
• Evaluates feedback from customers and consults on functional weaknesses.
• Controls design and development costs of a proposed product through effective resource coordination.

Reliability Management - HTH

Level Working Knowledge

• Selects appropriate tools and methods to ensure reliability expectations in hardware products.
• Participates in product reliability and quality assurance standard processes to meet process demands.
• Conducts performance and reliability testing for a specific hardware product or product group.
• Implements reliability activities and tasks for product development and maintenance plans.
• Analyzes common hardware reliability failures; provides corrective action plans.

Mechanical Engineering - MFG

Level Working Knowledge

• Works with basic, routine components of the mechanical engineering discipline in manufacturing.
• Performs basic installation, testing, maintenance and repairs for machines, engines and other equipment.
• Uses software to draft drawings or writes specifications for specific mechanical engineering projects.
• Assists senior staff to resolve unusual mechanical problems; recommends ideas.
• Follows relevant standards, policies and practices in mechanical engineering operations; reports violations.

Supplier Management - MFG

Level Working Knowledge

• Follows procedures in carrying out routine supplier management tasks.
• Uses electronic systems or tools to record/retrieve supplier information and carry out transactions with suppliers.
• Resolves routine supplier issues; escalates non-routine issues up chain of command.
• Researches alternative vendors or suppliers; participates in supplier selection.
• Works with suppliers to ensure that purchases meet delivery date and quality specifications.

Additional information

This job requires 5 working days from office.

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Relocation is available for this position.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Posting Dates

September 25, 2026 - October 8, 2026