Chief Engineer Principal – Software

Oshkosh Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Oshkosh Corporation seeks a Chief Engineer Principal - Software to drive the architecture of our cloud-native connected vehicle platform. You will shape backend services, APIs, and data pipelines for purpose-built fire, rescue, and industrial vehicles.

You will mentor engineers, establish coding standards, and collaborate with embedded teams, product owners and leaders to translate needs into scalable technical solutions that deliver measurable value and performance.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• 8+ years of experience developing backend software and APIs for cloud native applications.
• Strong programming skills in C#, .NET Core or similar language.
• Experience with Azure cloud technologies, including Azure functions, Event Grid, Event Hub, Azure Web PubSub, and Azure Service Bus.
• Experience designing cloud data stores ADX, SQL, time-series data, and related data services such as CosmosDB and Redis.
• Experience deploying containerized services (Docker, Azure Container Apps), CI/CD and infrastructure as code such as GitHub Actions and Terraform Enterprise.
• Experience with managing and optimizing Azure cloud cost.
• Experience with event-driven architecture, messaging patterns and real-time data processing.

Responsibilities

• Architecture leadership - Lead the software architecture for connected vehicle’s Azure cloud platform across cloud backend, data, APIs, web and mobile integrations.
• Hands-on engineering - Develop cloud-native services, APIs, event-driven processing and data-intensive applications.
• Engineering excellence - Establish architectural and coding standards. Mentor engineers.
• Cross-functional delivery - Partner with embedded engineers, product owners and engineering leads to translate product needs into sound technical solutions.
• Platform optimization - Improve availability, latency, security, operational readiness and cost efficiency.

Skills

C# or .NET Core

Azure cloud technologies

Backend API design

Cloud data stores design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Azure Functions

Event Grid

Event Hub

Azure Web PubSub

Azure Service Bus

Docker

Azure Container Apps

CI/CD

Terraform

Job description

About Pierce, an Oshkosh company

At Pierce Manufacturing, we build trucks that protect people and communities around the world. To our team, there is no room for anything less than providing the absolute best. Since 1913, building truck bodies on Model T Ford chassis in an old converted church has evolved to creating highly customized, carefully designed and engineering pumpers, aerials, tankers and rescue units that have no equal. Today, you’ll find more than 30,000 Pierce apparatuses on the road that are making a difference in people’s lives, every day. To us, every step in the process of building our trucks is personal. From innovation and expertise, to the customization and service. Our trucks are designed to perform under the toughest conditions.

FINAL ROUND INTERVIEW WILL BE HELD IN PERSON IN APPLETON, WI.

At Oshkosh Corporation, we are redefining how mission‑critical vehicles connect, communicate, and deliver value through technology. As Chief Engineer Principal - Software, you will play a pivotal role in advancing our next‑generation, cloud‑native connected vehicle telematics platform serving fire and emergency response, refuse collection, and concrete mixer vehicles. This is an opportunity to combine architectural leadership and hands‑on software engineering to build innovative, scalable, reliable software solutions that transform vehicle data into actionable intelligence and deliver meaningful impact for our customers.

YOUR IMPACT

• Architecture leadership - Lead the software architecture for connected vehicle’s Azure cloud platform across cloud backend, data, APIs, web and mobile integrations. Make pragmatic decisions balancing scalability, reliability, security, performance, built in quality and cost.
• Hands‑on engineering - Develop cloud‑native services, APIs, event‑driven processing and data‑intensive applications.
• Engineering excellence - Establish architectural and coding standards. Mentor engineers and raise engineering quality.
• Cross‑functional delivery - Partner with embedded engineers, product owners and engineering leads to translate product needs into sound technical solutions, remove roadblocks and help team successfully deliver sprint commitments.
• Platform optimization - Improve availability, latency, security, operational readiness and cost efficiency through continuous improvements.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Education - Bachelor’s degree in Computer engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• 8+ years of experience developing backend software and APIs for cloud native applications.
• Strong programming skills in C#, .NET Core or similar programming language.
• Experience with Azure cloud technologies, including Azure functions, Event Grid, Event Hub, Azure Web PubSub, and Azure Communication Service, Azure Service Bus
• Experience designing cloud data stores ADX, SQL, time‑series data, and related data services such as CosmosDB and Redis.
• Experience deploying containerized services (Docker, Azure Container Apps), CI/CD and infrastructure as code such as GitHub Actions and Terraform Enterprise.
• Experience with managing and optimizing Azure cloud cost.
• Experience with event‑driven architecture, messaging patterns and real‑time data processing.

STANDOUT QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience building connected vehicle, automotive, industrial IoT or telematics platforms.
• Experience designing secure, observable cloud services using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics and cloud security best practices.
• Experience with Linux command‑line environments, including system administration, troubleshooting, and maintaining self‑hosted GitHub Actions runners for CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong collaboration, problem‑solving and communication skills. Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, balance architectural rigor with delivery speed.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Internal Contacts: Contact with peers and others involving explanation of information (these contacts may be within or outside department or division), and the gathering of factual information; may include the communication of sensitive or confidential information.
• External Contacts: Limited external contact to gather information, answer queries, or ask assistance.
• Communication Skills: Read, write and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos; Read and interpret safety rules, operating/maintenance instructions and procedure manuals; Write routine reports, correspondence and speak effectively before both internal and external groups; Read, analyze and interpret business manuals, technical procedures and/or government regulations: Read, analyze and interpret scientific and technical journals, financial reports and legal documents.
• Decision‑Making: Significant responsibility for decisions and final results, affecting more than one function or a function with multiple unites. Substantial analysis is required and many factors must be weighted before a decision can be reached.
• Complexity, Judgment and Problem Solving: Work requires the ability to plan and perform work in light of new or constantly changing problems, work from broad instruction, and deal with complex factors not easily evaluated. Decisions require considerable judgment, initiative and ingenuity in areas there is little precedent.
• Supervisory/Managerial: General instructing, scheduling, and reviewing the work of others performing the same or directly related work. Acts as "lead worker".

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Physical Demands: Frequent: Standing, Walking/Running, Sitting, Reaching, Hearing, Talking, Visual, Typing; Occasional: Driving, Fine Dexterity, Manual Dexterity; Upper Extremity Repetitive Motion; Seldom: Lifting/Carrying 25lbs., Pushing/Pulling 25llbs.
• Non‑Physical Demands: Frequent: Analysis/Reasoning, Communication/Interpretation, Math/Mental Computation, Reading, Sustained Mental Activity (